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LIST OF 67 UNION GENERALS IN BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
MAJOR GENERALS (14)
1) * George G. Meade
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: December 31, 1815 Cadiz, Spain
Died: November 6, 1872
Cause of Death: Pneumonia
Buried: Laurel Hill Cemetery
2) Daniel Butterfield:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: October 31, 1831 Utica, N.Y.
Died: July 17, 1901 Cold Spring, N.Y.
Cause of Death: not mentioned
Buried: West Point
3) * John F. Reynolds:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: September 20, 1820 Lancaster, Pa.
Died: July 1, 1863
Cause of Death: Shot from his horse by a Rebel
Buried: Lancaster, Pa.
4) * Abner Doubleday:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: June 26, 1819 Ballston Spa, N.Y.
Died: January 26, 1893 Mendham, N.J.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery
5) * John Newton:
Date of Rank: March 30, 1863
Born: August 25, 1822 Norfolk, Virginia
Died: May 1, 1895 New York Residence
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: West Point
6) * Winfield S. Hancock:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: February 14, 1824 one of twin brothers
Died: February 9, 1886 Governors Island
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown
7) Daniel E. Sickles:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1982
Born: October 20, 1819 NYC
Died: May 3, 1914, at residence in New York.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery
8) David B. Birney:
Date of Rank: May 20, 1863
Born: May 29, 1825 Huntsville, Alabama
Died: October 18, 1864 Philadelphia, Pa.
Cause of Death: fell ill with a virulent species of malaria.
Buried: Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia.
9) * George Sykes:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: October 9, 1822 Dover, Delaware
Died: February 8, 1880 Brownsville, Texas
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: West Point in New York
10) * John Sedgwick:
Date of Rank: July 4, 1862
Born: September 13, 1813 at Cornwall Hollow in the
Connecticut Berkshires.
Died: May 9, 1864 Spotsylvania
Cause of Death: killed instantly by sharp shooter's bullet.
Buried: His native village of Cornwall Hollow.
11) * Oliver O. Howard:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: November 8, 1830 Leeds, Maine
Died: October 26, 1909 Burlington
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Lake View Cemetery
12) Carl Schurz:
Date of Rank: March 17, 1863
Born: March 2, 1829 Rhenish village of Liblar, near
Cologne, Prussia.
Died: May 14, 1906 91st St. residence N.Y.C.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, N.Y.
13) * Henry W. Slocum:
Date of Rank: July 4, 1862
Born: September 24, 1827 at Delphi, (also called Delphi Falls),
a hamlet in Onondaga county, N.Y.
Died: April 14, 1894 Brooklyn, N.Y.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Green-Wood Cemetery
14) * Alfred Pleasanton:
Date of Rank: June 22, 1863
Born: July 7, 1824 city of Washington
Died: February 17, 1897 Washington
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Congressional Cemetery.
BRIGADIER GENERALS (53)
1) * Marsena R. Patrick:
Date of Rank: March 20, 1862
Born: March 11, 1811. near Watertown, N.Y.
Died: July 27, 1888 Soldiers' Home, Dayton, Ohio
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: in the Home Cemetery
2) * Seth Williams:
Date of Rank: September 23, 1861
Born: March 22, 1822 Augusta, Maine
Died: March 23, 1866 Boston
Cause of Death: congestion of the brain
Buried: Forest Grove Cemetery, Augusta
3) * Rufus Ingalls:
Date of Rank: May 23, 1863
Born: August 23, 1818 Denmark, Maine
Died: January 15, 1893 New York City
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery
4) * Gouverneur K. Warren:
Date of Rank: September 26, 1862 **
Born: January 8, 1830 Cold Spring, N.Y.
Died: August 8, 1882 Newport, Rhode Island
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: in Island cemetery
5) * Henry J. Hunt:
Date of Rank: September 15, 1862
Born: September 14, 1819 Detroit, Michigan
Died: February 11, 1889 Soldier's Home in Washington.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Soldier's Home in Washington
6) * Robert O. Tyler:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: December 22, 1831 hamlet of Hunter, New York.
Died: December 1, 1874 Boston, Massachusetts
Cause of Death: declining health
Buried: Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford
7) James S. Wadsworth:
Date of Rank: August 9, 1861
Born: October 30, 1807 Geneseo, New York
Died: May 8, 1864
Cause of Death: while leading his men in an attempt to
repel an assault, he was shot off
his horse a bullet entering the
back of his head and lodging in
his brain.
Buried: Temple Hill Cemetery, Geneseo.
8) Solomon Meredith:
Date of Rank: October 6, 1862
Born: May 29, 1810 Guilford County, North Carolina
Died: October 2, 1875 Oakland, Indiana
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Riverside Cemetery
9) Lysander Cutler:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: February 16, 1807 Worcester County, Mass.
Died: July 30, 1866. Milwaukee
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Forest Home Cemetery
10) John C. Robinson:
Date of Rank: April 28, 1862
Born: April 10, 1817 Binghamton, N.Y.
Died: February 18, 1897 Binghamton, N.Y.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Spring Forest Cemetery
11) * Gabriel R. Paul:
Date of Rank: April 18, 1863
Born: March 22, 1813 St. Louis, Mo.
Died: May 5, 1886 Washington
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery.
12) Henry Baxter:
Date of Rank: March 12, 1863
Born: September 8, 1821 Sidney Plains, Delaware County,
New York.
Died: December 30, 1873. Jonesville
Cause of Death: pneumonia
Buried: Jonesville Cemetery
13) Thomas A. Rowley:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: October 5, 1808 Pittsburgh
Died: May 14, 1892
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Allegheny Cemetery
14) George J. Stannard:
Date of Rank: March 11, 1863
Born: October 20, 1820 Georgia, Vermont
Died: June 1, 1886 Washington
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Lake View Cemetery, Burlington Vermont
15) John C. Caldwell:
Date of Rank: April 28, 1862
Born: April 17, 1833 Lowell, Vermont
Died: August 31, 1912 Calais, Maine
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: next to his wife in East Machias.
16) Samuel K. Zook:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: March 27, 1821 Chester County, Pa.
Died: July 2, 1863 Gettysburg
Cause of Death: fatally wounded in the abdomen
Buried: Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, Pa.
17) * John Gibbon:
Date of Rank: May 2, 1862
Born: April 20, 1827 Philadelphia, Pa.
Died: February 6, 1896 Baltimore
Cause of Death: Natural
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery
18) William Harrow
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: November 14, 1822 Winchester, Kentucky
Died: September 27, 1872. New Albany, Indiana
Cause of Death: killed in train accident
Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, Mount Vernon
19) * Alexander S. Webb:
Date of Rank: June 23, 1863
Born: February 15, 1835 New York City
Died: February 12, 1911 residence Riverdale, N.Y.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: West Point
20) * Alexander Hays:
Date of Rank: September 29, 1862
Born: July 8, 1819 Franklin, Pennsylvania
Died: May 5, 1864
Cause of Death: killed by a confederate bullet
Buried: Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh
21) * William Hays:
Date of Rank: December 27, 1862
Born: May 9, 1819 Richmond, Virginia
Died: February 7, 1875 Fort Independence, Boston
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: first buried in Yonkers, N.Y. then West Point in 1894.
22) J.H. Hobart Ward:
Date of Rank: October 4, 1862
Born: June 17, 1823 New York City
Died: July 24, 1903 Monroe, New York
Cause of Death: run over by train and killed.
Buried: After a Masonic funeral in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
his body was brought back to Monroe for
burial in Community Cemetery.
23) Charles K. Graham:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: June 3, 1824 New York City
Died: April 15, 1889 Lakewood, New Jersey
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, New York
24) * Andrew A. Humphreys:
Date of Rank: April 28, 1862
Born: November 2, 1810 Philadelphia, Pa.
Died: December 27, 1883 Washington, D.C.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Congressional Cemetery there.
25) Joseph B. Carr:
Date of Rank: September 7, 1862
Born: August 16, 1828 Albany, New York
Died: February 24, 1895 In Troy
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Buried in Troy
26) * James Barnes:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: December 28, 1801 Boston, Mass.
Died: February 12, 1869 Springfield, Mass.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Springfield Cemetery
27) * Romeyn B. Ayres:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: December 20, 1825 Montgomery County,N.Y.
Died: December 4, 1888 Fort Hamilton, N.Y.harbor
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery
28) * Stephen H. Weed:
Date of Rank: June 6, 1863
Born: November 17, 1831 Potsdam, N.Y.
Died: July 3, 1863 Gettysburg, Pa. (Little Round Top)
Cause of Death: from a rebel bullet into his chest.
Buried: Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp, S.I.,N.Y.
29) Strong Vincent:
Date of Rank: July 3, 1863
Born: June 17, 1837 Waterford, Pennsylvania
Died: July 7, 1863 Gettysburg, Pa. (Little Round Top)
Cause of Death: shot down by Rebels during battle
Buried: Erie Cemetery
30) Samuel W. Crawford:
Date of Rank: April 25, 1862
Born: November 8, 1829 Franklin County, Pa.
Died: November 3, 1892 Philadelphia
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Laurel Hill Cemetery
31) * Horatio G. Wright:
Date of Rank: September 16, 1861
Born: March 6, 1820 Clinton, Connecticut
Died: July 2, 1899 Washington
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery
32) * Alfred T. A. Torbert:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: July 1, 1833 Georgetown, Delaware
Died: August 291880 off Cape Canaveral
Cause of Death: lost his life in the wreckage of the
steamer Vera Cruz while enroute from
N.Y. to Mexico.
Buried: Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Milford, Del.
33) Joseph J. Bartlett:
Date of Rank: March 30, 1863
Born: November 21, 1834 Binghamton, N.Y.
Died: January 14, 1893 Baltimore
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery
34) * David A. Russell:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: December 10, 1820 Salem, N.Y.
Died: September 19, 1864.. Battle of Winchester
Cause of Death: Shot through the heart
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Salem.
35) * Albion I. Howe:
Date of Rank: June 11, 1862
Born: March 13, 1818 Standish, Maine
Died: January 25, 1897 Cambridge, Mass.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge
36) * Thomas Hewson Neill:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: April 9, 1826 Philadelphia, Pa.
Died: March 12, 1885 Philadelphia, Pa.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: West Point
37) Alexander Shaler:
Date of Rank: May 26, 1863
Born: March 19, 1827 Haddam, Connecticut.
Died: December 28, 1911 New York City
Buried: He lived in Ridgefield, N.J. Buried Ridgefield.
38) Frank Wheaton:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: May 8, 1833 Providence, Rhode Island
Died: June 18, 1903 Washington
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery
39) Francis C. Barlow:
Date of Rank: September 19, 1862
Born: October 19, 1834 Brooklyn, New York
Died: January 11, 1896 New YorkCity
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Brookline
40) * Adelbert Amos:
Date of Rank: May 20, 1863
Born: October 31, 1835 Rockland, Maine
Died: April 13, 1933 Ormond, Florida
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Hildreth Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts
41) Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich, Baron Von Steinwehr:
Date of Rank: October 12, 1861
Born: September 25, 1822 Blankenburg, Duchy of Bruns.
Died: February 25, 1877 Buffalo, N.Y.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Albany Rural Cemetery, Albany, N.Y.
42) Alexander Schimmelfennig:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: July 20, 1824 Lithauen, Prussia
Died: September 5, 1865 Wernersville, Pa.
Cause of Death: victim of a most virulent type of tuberculosis.
Buried: Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pennsylvania
43) Alpheus Starkey Williams:
Date of Rank: May 17, 1861
Born: September 20, 1810 Sabrook, Connecticut
Died: December 21, 1878 Washington
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit
44) * Thomas H. Ruger:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: April 2, 1833 Lima, New York
Died: June 3, 1907 Stamford, Connecticut
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: West Point
45) * Henry H. Lackwood:
Date of Rank: August 8, 1861
Born: August 17, 1814 Kent County, Delaware
Died: December 7, 1899 Georgetown, D.C.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Naval Academy Cemetery, Annapolis
46) John W. Geary:
Date of Rank: April 25, 1862
Born: December 30, 1819 Mount Pleasant, Pa.
Died: January, 1873 Harrisburg
Cause of Death: suddenly striken and died
Buried: Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg
47) * George S. Greene:
Date of Rank: April 28, 1862
Born: May 6, 1801 Apponaug, Rhode Island
Died: January 28, 1899 Morristown, N.J.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Warwick, Rhode Island
48) * John Buford:
Date of Rank: July 27, 1862
Born: March 4, 1826 Woodford County, Kentucky
Died: December 16, 1863 Washington
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: West Point
49) * Wesley Merritt:
Date of Rank: June 29, 1863
Born: June 16, 1834 New York City
Died: December 3, 1910. Natural Bridge, Va.
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: West Point
50) * David McMurtrie Gregg:
Date of Rank: November 29, 1862
Born: April 10, 1833 Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Died: August 7, 1916 Reading, Pennsylvania
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: Charles Evans Cemetery Reading, Pennsylvania
51) * Judson Kilpatrick:
Date of Rank: June 14, 1863
Born: January 14, 1836 near Deckertown, New Jersey
Died: December 4, 1881 Santiago, Chile
Cause of Death: natural
Buried: West Point
52) Elon J. Farnsworth:
Date of Rank: June 29, 1863
Born: July 30, 1837
Died: July 3, 1863 Gettysburg, Pa. (Pickett's Charge)
Cause of Death: Shot to death
Buried: Rockton Michigan
53) * George A. Custor:
Date of Rank: June 29, 1863
Born: December 5, 1839 Harrison County , Ohio
Died: June 25, 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn Montana
Cause of Death: mortally wounded in battle
Buried: Military funeral at West Point
NOTE: Those that have the asterisk * next to the name are West Point
Graduates . (39). Non-West Point Graduates are (28).
This concludes the total transcribing of the List of 67 Union Generals in
Battle of Gettysburg .
Researched and Transcribed by: Miriam Medina
Source: Generals in Blue...Lives of the Union Commanders
Author: Ezra J. Warner
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Copyright: 1964
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