- Born North Andover, Massachusetts, 1818
- West Point 1839
- Corps of Engineers
- Mexican War, wounded, 1847
- Post war, US Coast Survey
- Resigned US Army, 1853
- Appointed first governor of Washington Territory by President Franklin Pierce, 1853
- Director, Northern Pacific Railroad survey, 1853
- US Commissioner for Indian Treaties, 1853-56
- Washington congressional delegate, 1857-61
- Colonel, 79th New York Volunteers, 1861
- Brigadier general, Port Royal expedition, South Carolina coast, 1861-62
- Commanded 1st Division, IX Corps at Second Manassas, 1862
- Killed at Chantilly (Ox Hill), 1862
- Buried, Newport, Rhode Island
- Born Beaufort District, South Carolina, 1818
- West Point 1839
- Resigned US Army, 1841
- Graduated Harvard Law School, 1842
- Practiced law at Savannah, Georgia
- President, Augusta & Savannah Railroad
- Served in both houses of Georgia legislature
- At outbreak of Civil War, seized Fort Pulaski on the Georgia coast for the Confederacy
- Appointed brigadier general, Confederate Army, 1861
- Commanded Georgia brigade in the Seven Days Battles and at Second Manassas, 1862
- Commanded division at Ox Hill, 1862
- Badly wounded at Sharpsburg (Antietam), 1862
- Commanded Quartermaster General’s department, 1863, until end of war
- Returned to Savannah and law practice
- Member, Georgia legislature, 1870-75
- Led Georgia delegation to Democratic National Convention, 1880 and 1884
- Appointed Minister to Austria by President Grover Cleveland, 1887
- Died 1896; buried in Savannah, Georgia
- Born into wealth and status, New York City, 1815
- Law degree, Columbia College, 1833
- Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Dragoons, US Army, 1836
- Attended French Cavalry School at Saumur, 1839
- Fought with Chasseurs d’Afrique, Algeria, 1840
- Resigned US Army, 1846, but returned to fight in Mexico, 1847
- Lost left arm at the Battle of Churubusco, 1847, and brevetted for gallantry
- Duty in California, 1851
- Resigned US Army 1851, traveled the world, lived in Paris
- Served in the Army of France, an ally of Italy in its war with Austria, 1859
- Fought at Magenta and Solferino, Italy, 1859
- Received France’s highest decoration, The Cross of the Legion of Honor, 1860
- Brigadier general, New Jersey Brigade, Army of the Potomac, 1861
- Commanded 1st Division, III Corps in the Peninsula Campaign, 1862
- Major general at Second Manassas, 1862
- Killed at Chantilly (Ox Hill), 1862
- Buried in New York City, re-interred at Arlington National Cemetery, 1912
- Born Culpeper, Virginia, 1825
- West Point, 1847
- Served in Mexico, 1847
- Resigned US Army and entered Confederate service as colonel, 13th Virginia Infantry, 1861
- Major general, Seven Days Battles before Richmond, 1862
- Commanded “Light” division under Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain and Second Manassas, 1862
- At Ox Hill, held Confederate right flank, 1862
- Timely arrival at Sharpsburg (Antietam) repelled Burnside’s attack and saved Lee’s army, 1862
- Fought at Fredericksburg, 1862
- Wounded at Chancellorsville, 1863
- As lieutenant general, led Confederate Third Corps at Gettysburg, 1863
- At Bristoe Station, impetuous assault cost his corps thirteen hundred casualties, 1863
- Fought in Wilderness Campaign, 1864, and at Petersburg, 1864-65
- Killed at Petersburg, 1865
- Buried in Richmond, Virginia
