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See also:STONEMAN, See also:GEORGE (1822-1894) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born at Busti, in See also:Chautauqua See also:county, New See also:York, on the 8th of See also:August 1822. He graduated at See also:West Point in 1846, served as second See also:lieutenant with the Mormon See also:battalion in See also:California during the Mexican See also:War, and became a See also:captain in 1855. In See also:February 1861, while in command of Fort See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown, See also:Texas, he disregarded the orders of his See also:superior officer, See also:Major-See also:General D. E. Twiggs, to surrender to the Confederate forces, and escaped with the See also:garrison. He served on McClellan's See also:staff during the West See also:Virginia See also:campaign, and was commissioned brigadier-general of See also:volunteers and appointed See also:chief of See also:cavalry of the See also:Army of the See also:Potomac in August 1861, in which capacity he took See also:part in the See also:Peninsula campaign and the Seven Days' See also:Battle. He commanded the III. See also:corps in the Fredericksburg campaign; and was promoted, in See also:November 1862, to be major-general of volunteers. During the See also:Chancellorsville campaign he made an unsuccessful cavalry See also:raid toward See also:Richmond. In the See also:early months of 1864 he commanded the See also:XXIII. corps, and then, as See also:commander of the cavalry of the See also:department of the See also:Ohio, took part in the See also:Atlanta campaign. While attempting to seize the Confederate See also:prison at See also:Andersonville (See also:July 31, 1864), he was captured at See also:Clinton, See also:Georgia. After his See also:release in See also:October he commanded cavalry in See also:East See also:Tennessee, making successful raids into Virginia and See also:North Carolina, and on the 12th of See also:April 1865 defeated a Confederate force near See also:Salisbury, North Carolina, and captured a large number of prisoners. After-See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward he held commands in Tennessee and Virginia until 1868. He was mustered out of the volunteer service in See also:September 1866, but served in the See also:regular army as See also:colonel and brevetmajor-general till 1871. He then removed to California, was elected See also:governor by the Democrats, and served from 1883 to 1887. In February 1891 he was made a colonel on the retired See also:list, U.S. Army, and on the 5th of September 1894 died at See also:Buffalo, New York.
End of Article: STONEMAN, GEORGE (1822-1894)
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