Transcript Union Generals

Union Generals
By
Sam Margush
Carley Young
Introduction to Famous
Union Generals
We are going to tell you about 8 famous
Generals that served for the Union side
during the Civil War
John Pope
• Born in Louisville,
Kentucky
• Close friend of Lincoln
• Entered Military
Academy at West Point,
1838
• Ordered that citizens
working against Union
to be shot as spies
• Retired from military in
1886
• Died September 23,
1892
Joseph Hooker
• Born in 1814
• Graduated from
West Point, served
in Mexican War
• 1863-commanded
the Army of the
Potomac
• Remained on active
duty until 1868
• Died in 1879
Joshua Chamberlain
• Born in 1828 in Maine
• College professor
before he went to war
• Wounded when leading
• He left the army in 1866
• Served as Governor of
Maine, president of
Bowdoin College, and
president of a railway
construction company
• He died in 1914
John Adams Dix
• Born in Boscawen, NH
1798
• Father was a military
man in Baltimore, MD
• Served for first time at
the battle of Niagara,
also known as Lundy’s
Lane
• Made Chairman of the
Union defense
committee in NY during
the Civil War
• Died in NY in 1879
John Gordon
• Born in 1832 in Georgia,
he was a lawyer and
superintendent of a
coal mine
• Promoted to Major
General in May 1864
• In 1865, he led an attack
on Fort Stedman
• After the war, he wrote
a book, Reminiscences
of the Civil War
• He died in 1904
William Sherman
• Born in PA in 1820,
and graduated from
West Point in 1820
• Served in the
Seminole War
• He was wounded at
the Battle Of Shiloh.
• Three horses were
shot under him
• In 1886 he made his
home in New York
City, where he died
on February 14,
1891.
Philip Sheridan
• Born in NY in 1831, he
graduated from West
Point in 1853
• He was made chief
commissary of the
Army of the Southwest
• He was made the
brigadier-general and in
August 1862, he
defeated Faulkner’s
cavalry in Mississippi
• He died in
Massachusetts on
August 5, 1888
George Custer
• Born in NY in 1839, and
he graduated from West
Point in 1861
• He fought in the
Peninsular Campaign
• After he was relieved of
command in 1862, he
returned to the cavalry
duty of lieutenant
• He died at the Battle of
Little Big Horn, also
known as “Cluster’s Last
Sand”
Conclusion
There were a lot of Generals, on the Union
side, fighting for slavery to be against the
law. Unfortunately, we couldn’t tell you about
all of them and every important thing that
they did, but we hope that you learned a little
about the Union Generals from the Civil War.
Works Cited
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www.civilwarhome.com/popebio.htm, 3/16
www.nh.gov/nhdhr/publications/warheros/dixj.html, 3/16
http://www.nps.gov/archive/pete/mahan/edbiosjc.html, 3/17
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/sherman/williamtecumseh-sherman.htm, 3/17
• http://www.sonofthesouth.net/union-generals/custer/georgecuster.htm 3/18
• http://www.civilwarhome.com/sherbio.htm 3/19