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See also:FRANKLIN, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM BUEL (1823-1903) , Federal See also:general in the See also:American See also:Civil See also:War, was See also:born at See also:York, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 27th of See also:February 1823. He graduated at See also:West Point, at the See also:head of his class, in 1843, was commissioned in the Engineer See also:Corps, U.S.A., and served with distinction in the Mexican War, receiving the See also:brevet of first See also:lieutenant for his See also:good conduct at Buena Vista, in which See also:action he was on the See also:staff of General See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor. After the war he was engaged in See also:miscellaneous See also:engineering See also:work, becoming a first lieutenant in 1853 and a See also:captain in 1857. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War in r86r he was made See also:colonel of a See also:regular See also:infantry See also:regiment, and a few days later brigadier-general of See also:volunteers. He led a See also:brigade in the first See also:battle of See also:Bull Run, and on the organization by McClellan of the See also:Army of the See also:Potomac he received a divisional command. He commanded first a See also:division and then the VI. Corps in the operations before See also:Richmond in 1862, earning the brevet of brigadier-general in the U.S. Army; was promoted See also:major-general, U.S.V., in See also:July 1862; commanded the VI. corps at See also:South See also:Mountain and See also:Antietam; and at Fredericksburg commanded the " See also:Left See also:Grand Division " of two corps (I. and VI.). His See also:part in the last battle led to charges of disobedience and See also:negligence being preferred against him by the commanding general, General A. E. See also:Burnside, on which the congressional See also:committee on the conduct of the war reported unfavourably to Franklin, largely, it seems, because Burnside's orders to Franklin were not put in See also:evidence. Burnside had issued on the 23rd of See also:January r863 an See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order relieving Franklin from See also:duty,
XI. 2and Franklin's only other service in the war was as See also:commander of the XIX. corps in the abortive Red See also:River Expedition of 1864. In this expedition he received a severe See also:wound at the action of See also:Sabine See also:Cross Roads (See also:April 8, 1864), in consequence of which he took no further active part in the war. He served for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time on the retiring See also:board, and was captured by the Confederates on the rrth of July 1864, but escaped the same See also:night. In 1865 he was brevetted major-general in the regular army, and in 1866 he was retired. After the war General Franklin was See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing See also:Company, was president of the See also:commission to See also:lay out See also:Long See also:Island See also:City, N.Y. (1871-1872), of the commission on the See also:building of the See also:Connecticut See also:state See also:house (1872-1873), and, from 188o to 1899, of the board of managers of the See also:national See also:home for disabled volunteer soldiers; as a See also:commissioner of the See also:United States to the See also:Paris Exposition of 1889 he was made a grand officer of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour; and he was for a time a director of the See also:Panama railway. He died at See also:Hartford, Connecticut, on the 8th of See also:March 1903. He wrote a pamphlet, The Galling See also:Gun for Service Ashore and Afloat (1874).
See A Reply of Major-General William B. Franklin to the See also:Report of the See also:Joint Committee of See also:Congress on the Conduct of the War (New York, 1863; and ed., 1867), and See also:Jacob L. See also:Greene, Gen. W. B. Franklin and the Operations of the Left Wing at the Battle of Fredericks-See also:burg (Hartford, 19oo).
End of Article: FRANKLIN, WILLIAM BUEL (1823-1903)
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