Showing posts with label american civil war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label american civil war. Show all posts
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Winfield Scott - Great General of USA
Winfield Scott was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential applicant of the Whig Party in 1852. Known as "Old Fuss and Feathers" and the "Grand Old Man of the Army," he serve on active duty as a general longer than any further man in American history and many historians rate him the ablest American commander of his time. Over the course of his forty seven year career, he
Friday, August 6, 2010
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was served as the 23rd President of the United States. In the American Civil War Harrison served as a Brigadier General in the XX Corps of the Army of the Cumberland. After the war he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Indiana, but was later allotted to the U.S. Senate from that state. He is the one and only president from the state of Indiana. His presidential
Thursday, August 5, 2010
James A. Garfield
Born November 19, 1831 Birth Place Moreland Hills, Ohio Birth name James Abram Garfield Political party Republican Spouse(s) Lucretia Rudolph Garfield OccupationLawyer, Educator, Minister Religion Church of ChristDied September 19, 1881Death Place Elberon, New JerseyJames Abram Garfield was served as the 20th President of the United States. Garfield served as a major common in the
Rutherford B. Hayes
Born October 4, 1822 Birth Place Delaware, Ohio Political party Republican Spouse(s) Lucy Hayes OccupationLawyer Religion Methodist Died January 17, 1893 Death Place Fremont, OhioRutherford Birchard Hayes was served as the 19th President of the United States. He served in the American Civil War, upward to the rank of major-general in 1864. Hayes controlled federal troops to suppress
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Andrew Johnson
Birth Place Niles, Ohio Political party Republican Spouse(s) Ida Saxton McKinley Occupation Lawyer Religion Methodist Died September 14, 1901
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