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See also:WARREN, GOUVERNEUR See also:KEMBLE (183o-1882) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born at Coldspring, New See also:York, on the 8th of See also:January 183o, and entered See also:West Point in 1846, graduating in 185o. He was assigned to the See also:engineers, and for several years was employed in survey See also:work in the West, where he took See also:part in some expeditions against the See also:Indians. In 1859 he was made assistant instructor in See also:mathematics at West Point. But two years later, at the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War, the scientific subaltern was made See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel of See also:volunteers and posted to the newly raised 5th New York Volunteer See also:Infantry. He was fully equal to the task, for his See also:regiment was very soon brought into a See also:state of marked efficiency. In See also:August he was promoted colonel. He commanded a See also:brigade of the V. See also:corps at Gaines's See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill, Second See also:Bull Run and See also:Antietam, and was shortly afterwards promoted brigadier-See also:general of Volunteers. During the Fredericksburg See also:campaign he was on the engineer See also:staff of the See also:Army of the See also:Potomac, but after See also:Chancellorsville he was appointed See also:chief of engineers in that army, and in that capacity rendered brilliant services at See also:Gettysburg (q.v.), his See also:reward being promotion to See also:major-general U.S.V. and the See also:brevet of colonel in the See also:regular army. When the Army of the Potomac was reorganized in the See also:spring of 1864 Warren returned to the V. corps as its See also:commander.
His services in thsi See also:Wilderness (q.v.) and See also:Petersburg (q.v.) See also:campaigns proved his fitness for this large and responsible command, but his naturally lively See also:imagination and the engineer's inbred See also:habit of caution combined to make hint a brilliant but somewhat unsafe subordinate. He would have become one of the See also:great chiefs of staff of See also:history, or even a successful army commander, but he sometimes failed where a less highly gifted See also:man would have succeeded. He was at his best when the military situation depended on his exercising his initiative, as on the first See also:day in the Wilderness, in which his See also:action saved the army, at his worst when, as on the loth of May before See also:Spottsylvania, he was ordered to See also:attempt the impossible. On the latter occasion both 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 and See also:Meade threatened to relieve him of his command, and See also:Humphreys, the chief of staff of the army, was actually sent to See also:control the movements of the V. corps. Similar incidents took See also:place in the later stages of
the campaign, and at last, at the See also:critical moment preceding the See also:battle of Five Forks, See also:Sheridan, who was in See also:charge of the operations, was authorized by Grant to relieve Warren of his command if he thought See also:fit. The thoughtful Warren and the, eager, violent Sheridan were See also:ill-matched. At the outset the V. corps, being no longer composed of the solid troops of 1862 and 1863, See also:fell into confusion, which Warren exerted himself to remedy, and in the event the battle was an important See also:Union victory. But after it had ended Sheridan sent for Warren and, with no attempt to soften the See also:blow, relieved him of his command. A See also:court of inquiry was subsequently held, which entirely exonerated Warren from the reckless charges of apathy, almost of cowardice, which Sheridan brought against him. - Shortly after Five Forks Warren resigned his volunteer See also:commission, and received the brevet of brigadier-general in the regular army. After the war he was employed, in the substantive See also:rank of major (1879 lieutenant-colonel) of engineers, in survey work and See also:harbour improvements. General Warren died on the 8th of August 1882 at See also:Newport, R.I. A statue to his memory was erected at See also:Round See also:Top, on the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of Gettysburg, on the See also:sixth anniversary of his See also:death.
End of Article: WARREN, GOUVERNEUR KEMBLE (183o-1882)
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