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See also:MILES, See also:NELSON See also:APPLETON (1839— ) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born in See also:Westminster, See also:Massachusetts, on the 8th of See also:August 1839. He was engaged in See also:mercantile pursuits in See also:Boston when the See also:Civil See also:War began, and he entered the See also:army in See also:September 1861 as a See also:lieutenant in the 22nd Massachusetts volunteer See also:infantry. He served with distinction in the See also:Peninsular See also:campaign, and at See also:Antietam, Fredericksburg and See also:Chancellorsville, where he received a See also:wound which incapacitated him up to the opening of See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant's See also:Virginia campaign of 1864. He had been commissioned in September 1862 See also:colonel of the 61st New See also:York See also:volunteers, commanded a See also:brigade at the See also:Wilderness and See also:Spottsylvania, and in May 1864 was rewarded for his gallant leadership by the grade of brigadier-See also:general of volunteers. He fought in the See also:Cold Harbor and See also:Petersburg operations in 1864—65, was brevetted See also:major-general of volunteers for his conduct at Reams Station, and at the See also:close of the war was in temporary command of an army See also:corps. In See also:July 1866 he was made colonel of a See also:regular infantry See also:regiment, and in 1867 he was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular army for his services at Chancellorsville and major-general for his services at Spottsylvania. He was promoted to be brigadier-general U.S.A. (Dec. I88o), and to be
major-general (See also:April 189o), and in 1895 succeeded General See also:John McA. See also:Schofield as commanding general of the See also:United States army. He was conspicuously successful (1869-1886) in dealing with See also:Indian outbreaks, fighting the See also:Cheyenne, Kiowa and See also:Comanche on Llano Estacado (1875) and the See also:Sioux in See also:Montana (1876), capturing the Nez Perces under See also:Chief See also:Joseph (1877), and defeating the Chiricahua Apaches under Geronimo (1886), and he commanded the United States troops sent to See also:Chicago during the railway riots in 1894. He was in nominal direction of military operations during the war with See also:Spain in 1898, though his See also:personal See also:share of the operations was confined to directing the almost unopposed See also:Porto Rico expedition. He was raised to the See also:rank of lieutenant-general in See also:June 1900, and retired from active service in August 1903. In 1905-1906 he was See also:adjutant-general and chief-of-See also:staff under See also:Governor 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 L. See also:Douglas in Massachusetts. He wrote Personal Recollections (1896), Military See also:Europe (1898) and Observations Abroad (1899).
End of Article: MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )
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