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General Irwin McDowell is most remembered for the defeat at the first Battle of Bull Run, nevertheless he remained an active officer. At the end of the US Civil War, McDowell was placed in charge of the Department of the Pacific. He gained the promotion to major general in 1872 and retired from the US Army in 1882.

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