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Grant was a professional soldier and commander of all union armies when the war ended, B. Harrison and Garfield were brigadier generals and Hayes was brigadier general of volunteers.
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Who was the last Democrat general to become President?
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When did President Abraham Linkin end slavery?
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How many US elections have taken place since the US Civil War?
Since the American Civil War, there have been 36 General Elections for President of the United States of America.
Civil War General who was also a General in the Mexican American War?
Winfield Scott was both a US General Officer in the Mexican American and Civil Wars. Sterling Price became a Brigadier General after the Taos Revolt during the Mexican American War and was a Major General of the Confederate States Army during the US Civil War. There was also John Ellis Wool who, when the Civil War began had been a Brigadier General for twenty years and had been in uniform for 49 years. He was the oldest General Officer on either side during the US Civil war at the age of 77. He got his second star during the Civil War.
What was the name of the Hutu president during the Rwandan genocide?
Jevunal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was president that been killed in the plane crash. Few hours after his death, the civil war or Rwanda genocide started. During the genocide, there was not any president. The country was in deep civil war. Later after the situation calmed down and elections was held, Paul Kagame, a Tutsi, became the president.
What president order the holiday Memorial Day?
Memorial Day (originally called Decoration Day) was notoriginated by a president. General John Alexander Logan (who had been a Union general during the US Civil War and who was then national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic (a fraternal organization of veterans)) declared the holiday Decoration Day on May 5, 1868. It was first observed on May 30, 1868 when the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers who had died during the Civil War were decorated with flowers. This was done in their honor. In 1967 Decoration Day was officially renamed as Memorial Day although that name had been in general use for many years.
Who was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Unintentionally, a good question! It was the Confederacy itself, not the army, that had a president (Jefferson Davis). There was no General-in-Chief until the final weeks of the war, when the job was given to the only possible choice, Robert E. Lee. Davis, however, was an ex-Regular officer who could claim a respectable record as a Colonel in the Mexican War, and he had hoped to be made General-in-Chief instead of President. So he kept trying to combine both roles, and feuding viciously with his Generals as he did so. It could indeed have been joked that he was President of the Army.
The Union General who assumed commander of the army during the last year of the war was?
Ulysses S. Grant took command of the Union Armies during the final years of the US Civil War receiving full command of the troops in early 1864. He was appointed by US President Lincoln. Grant was also given the special title of Lieutenant General. Grant has been given credit for the general that defeated the South. This had been the title of George Washington and no other US general ever had it until it was given to Grant. The Confederacy used the title of lieutenant general during the war.
The Union General who assumed command of the army during the last year of the war was?
Ulysses S. Grant took command of the Union Armies during the final years of the US Civil War receiving full command of the troops in early 1864. He was appointed by US President Lincoln. Grant was also given the special title of Lieutenant General. Grant has been given credit for the general that defeated the South. This had been the title of George Washington and no other US general ever had it until it was given to Grant. The Confederacy used the title of lieutenant general during the war.
Was Lincoln the US President during the Civil War?
US President Lincoln was the president through 99% of the US Civil War. Technically speaking, however, he did not live to see the final surrender. Due to his death by assassination on April 15, 1865 (he had been shot on the 14th by John Wilkes Booth), Andrew Johnson was sworn in as President on April 15.The last major Confederate force under General Johnston, surrendered to US General Sherman on April 26, 1865. The absolute last surrender took place on May 26, 1865 under the small Confederate force of Kirby.
During which war was Abraham Lincoln president?
He was president during the Civil War, during which he was quite unpopular because of his wartime decisions, as most presidents have been during wars, and he gave the Gettysburg address during that time, and the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves. Shortly afterward he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
What President was the last president to have been a Civil War veteran.?
Both George W. Bush (43rd President) and his father George H.W. Bush (41st President) were pilots in the military. However, as a first lieutenant in the Texas Air National Guard, G.W. Bush was a reservist, and did not see combat in the Vietnam War.George H. W. Bush (born June 12, 1924) was a Lieutenant, Junior Grade, in the United States Navy in World War II. During an attack in the Pacific campaign, his small carrier torpedo bomber was shot down by the Japanese, and his two fellow crewmen were killed. He was rescued and continued to fly missions, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
