Ulysses Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and James A. Garfield. William McKinley was also an Ohio-born Republican Union Army veteran who became president, who served in the same regiment with Hayes before Hayes was promoted. McKinley was a much younger man and never became a general though. By the time McKinley became president all the ex-generals were too old or already dead. McKinley was the last Union Army vet to be president.
In three words: Northern military incompetence. The Union had a few good generals, Grant most notably, but most of the Union generals were outclassed by the Confederate generals. The North held every advantage in this war except for a surplus of competent generals.
Grant, Sherman, and Meade (among many others).
For the union, two of the most powerful generals were Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman. For the confederacy, three powerful generals were Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, and Stonewall Jackson.
The Reconstruction Era was ongoing, however, as Ulysses S. Grant (one of the Union's greatest generals and the U.S.'s worst presidents) entered office and the "Era of Forgotten Presidents" or better known as the "Gilded Age" began.
The union is referred to as United States so the answer would be all the presidents of USA.
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These are major Generals Union: Generals Pope, McClellan, Burnside, Thomas, Grant Confederacy: General Lee
These are major Generals Union: Generals Pope, McClellan, Burnside, Thomas, Grant Confederacy: General Lee
They did. very long ones.
The Battle of Chantilly was the battle that took the lives of two Union generals. Generals Issac Stephens and Philip Kearny were killed on September 1, 1862.
There were well over one thousand men who served as brigadier generals or higher during the war, over 600 for the Union and about 425 for the Confederacy.The highest ranking Union general was Ulysses Grant, who was a lieutenant general (three stars). He was the only one in the Union army at this rank. All other Union generals were major generals (two stars) or brigadier generals (one star). George Washington had been a lieutenant general in the Revolution and out of reverence for his memory the Union army believed that no one should have the same rank as Washington. This caused problems as some men promoted early in the war to major general (two stars) did not work out to be good commanders, but there they were with seniority over all later-appointed major generals. For this reason Grant was finally made a three star in March, 1864, so he would clearly outrank all other Union generals.The Confederacy had no problems with raising officers to three star and four star rank. There were eight full generals (four stars) in the Confederate army, in order of seniority Samuel Cooper, Albert Sidney Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Joseph E. Johnston, Pierre G. T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, Edmund Kirby Smith and John Bell Hood. There were over thirty three star Confederate generals.
Union General Sherman led three armies into Georgia. Each had a commander a sizable army. On the Confederate side, Major General Joseph Johnston led three smaller armies all part of the South's Army of the Tennessee. These generals were: 1. Hardee 2. Polk 3. Hood and 4. Wheeler.