MEADE George Gordon 181572
George Meade see Plate El was born in Cadiz, Spain, on 31 December 1815, the son of a wealthy American merchant who was wiped out financially by adhering to Spain's cause in the Napoleonic Wars-Returning to the United States, Meade attended Mount Hope Institution and then the US Military Academy from which lie was graduated in 1835. He saw service in Florida and at the Water town Arsenal before resigning in 1836 to work as a civil engineer. He returned to the army on 19 May 1842 as a second...
HUNT Henry Jackson 181989
Henry Hunt see Plate C3 was born in Detroit on 14 September 1819. A third-generation regular army officer, Hunt was graduated from West Point in 1839. He served as a lieutenant of artillery in Winfield Scott's audacious advance on Mexico City in August 1847, earning brevets to captain and major for gallantry At Chumbusco he galloped his gun up to the walls of the capital as the gun nil limbered almost eveiv man and horse was hit, but the survivors got the piece into position only yards from a...
SHERIDAN Philip Henry 183188
Philip Sheridan see Plate G3 was bom ill Albany, New York, on 6 March 1831, but his family soon moved to Somerset, Ohio, There Sheridan acquired his basic education and clerked in a general store, before being appointed to the West Point class of 1852. While at the Academy he was suspended for a year for lighting with a fellow cadet, hence graduating in 1853, in the bottom third of his class. He was appointed to the 4th US Infantry, and served thereafter on the frontier. Coming East at the...
The Plates
The regulation uniform of a general officer was a double-breasted dark blue frock coat with a dark blue velvet standing collar and round jam pot cuffs. Major-generals had two rows of nine buttons arranged in groups of three brigadier-generals had two rows of eight buttons arranged in pairs. Rank was also indicated by transverse shoulder straps of dark blue velvet edged with gold embroidery, bearing two silver stars for a major-general and one for a brigadiergeneral. The cap or hat badge was a...
BARLOW Francis Channing 183496
Francis Channing Barlow see Plate F2 was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 19 October Itt-H, His father was a minister, and he was raised in his motlier's hometown of Brookline, Massachusetts. Barlow was a member of the Harvard graduating class of 1855, after which he went to New York to study law. Admitted to the bar in 1858, he was in practice there until the outbreak of the Civil War. He joined the 12th Regiment, New York State Militia as a private in the heat of passion that followed the...
REYNOLDS John FuJton 182063
John Reynolds see Plate E2 was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on 20 September 1820. After attending Lancaster County Academy he was graduated from West Point in 1841. He served as an artillery officer on the Atlantic coast and in Texas before the Mexican War, in which he was breveted a captain and major for gallant and meritorious conduct. After years of garrison duty, be became Commandant of Cadets at West Point in September I860, leaving the Academy to become lieutenant-colonel of the 14th...
McCLELLAN George Brinton 182685
George McClellan see Plate CI was born in Philadelphia on 3 December I82i gt . Attending the L niversity of Pennsylvania, Ik- left in order to enter West Point, where he was graduated second in his class of 1846. Appointed to the Corps of Engineers he was noted for getting roads and bridges built during Scott's Mexico City campaign of 1847. earning nvo brevets. Thereafter he returned to West Point as an instructor translated a French bayonet manual explored the sources of the Red River was one...