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Roswell S. Ripley.

1173. Born Ohio.

Appointed New York. 7.

Brigadier-General, August 15, 1861. Commanded (first) in 1861 Second Military District in South Carolina; (second) in 1862, brigade, D. H. Hill's Division, Army of Northern Virginia; (third) in 1863-‘64 commanding First Military District, Department of Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida; (fourth) in 1865 commanded division in Cheatham's Corps, Army of Tennessee.


Samuel G. French.*

1180. Born New Jersey.

Appointed New Jersey. 14.

Major of artillery, 1861; Brigadier-General, Oct. 23, 186; Major-General, August 31, 1862. Commanding Department of Southern Virginia and North Carolina in 1862; in 1863-‘64 commanding [53] division in Polk's Corps, Army of Tennessee; in 1864 and 1865 commanding Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.


Franklin Gardner.

1183. Born New York.

Appointed Iowa. 17.

Major-General, December 13, 1862. Commanded brigade, Withers' Division, Army of Mississippi, in 1862; in 1863 commanded Port Hudson; later commanded division under General Dick Taylor, in Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and Western Tennessee.


Edmunds B. Holloway.

1185. Born Kentucky.

Appointed Kentucky. 19.

Colonel, May, 1861. Commanding First Missouri Infantry, Missouri State Guard. Killed May 6, 1861, in a skirmish at Independence, Mo.

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Daniel M. Frost.

1209. Born New York.

Appointed New York. 4.

Brigadier-General, March 3, 1862. Commanding brigade Missouri State Guard 1862; then a brigade in Hindman's Division in 1863. (Deserted and dropped.)


Francis J. Thomas.

1211. Born Virginia.

Appointed Maryland. 6.

Colonel, May 17, 1861. Commanding Maryland Volunteers (May and June, 1861); July, 1861, acting chief of ordnance on General J. E. Johnston's staff. Killed July 21, 1861, at Bull Run, Virginia.


Simon B. Buckner.

1216. Born Kentucky.

Appointed Kentucky. 11.

Lieutenant-General, September 20, 1864. Third in command at Fort Donelson in 1862; in 1863 commanded division and corps in Army of Tennessee; in 1864-‘65 commanded Department of West Louisiana and Arkansas.

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William H. C. Whiting.

1231. Born Mississippi.

Appointed at Large. 1.

Major, engineers, March 29, 1861. Brigadier-General, July 21, 1861. Major-General, February 28, 1863. On General Beauregard's staff in North Carolina and General Joseph E. Johnston's [54] staff in Virginia, 1861. Commanded Bee's Brigade; in 1862 commanded Division in the Army of Northern Virginia; in 1863 defences of Wilmington, N. C.; in June, 1864, commanded division in Virginia under Beauregard; in June, 1864, returned to command District of Cape Fear (headquarters Wilmington, N. C.) Died March 1o, 1865, at Governor's Island, of wounds received at Fort Fisher, N. C.

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