Generals at Rest Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By Civilwarranger on Tuesday 28 May 2002. Waypoint GC5DEB

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This is the grave and marker of Confederate General Edward Dorr Tracey, JR. He died leading a brigade of soldiers from Georgia and Alabama into battle in Port Gibson, Mississippi. He was born in Macon, Georgia in 1833 and was returned to Macon after his death in on May 1, 1863. He is buried in the historic Rose Hill Cemetary in Macon, Georgia. This cemetary has hundreds of Civil War infantry man buried here.
 

30th

Brig. General Charles G. Dahlgren Mississippi State Troops CSA Aug. 13, 1811 - Dec. 18, 1888 found in the Natchez City Cemetary, Natchez, Miss.
 

30th

Union Army
Brig. General
William Henry Seward

Son of Secretary of State William H. Seward.
Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, NY

At one point he provided military governorship of General SHERIDAN'S army, in Martinsburg, Virginia.


 

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Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, NC...

While exploring historic Oakdale Cemetery, we came across the grave marker for General William MacRae. The grave was located in a small family plot, and there were four other Confederate soldiers and leaders of various ranks in this one family (at least in this plot). Here's some information about General MacRae from the Special Collections Library at UNCW:

General MacRae (1834-1882) was a descendant of the clan MacRae of Rosshire, Scotland. He was trained in Philadelphia and began a career as a civil engineer for the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad. His military career began when he enlisted in the Monroe Light Infantry at the beginning of the Civil War. He rapidly rose through the ranks and was made a brigadier-general in 1864. General MacRae distinguished himself in many of the major battles and was considered to be a natural military leader. He was well loved and respected by the troops. After the War, General MacRae resumed his career as a civil engineer for the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. He died in Augusta, Georgia of pneumonia on February 11, 1882 at the age of 47.

General MacRae is at rest in a truly magnificent place...Oakdale Cemetery is peaceful, beautiful, and full of interesting history.
 

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General William Franklin Draper (1842-1910) from Hopedale Massachusetts. A young and daring soldier, he rose from a 1st Lieutenant in the 25th Massachusetts Infantry to Lieutenant Colonel and commander of the 36th Massachusetts Infantry. Brevetted Brigadier General, USV on March 13, 1865. He served as U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts 1892-1897, and U.S. ambassador to Italy in 1897-1900.
 

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This is the gravesite of Brevet General Uri Balcom Pearsall.

His stone states:

URI BALCOM PEARSALL
JULY 17, 1840 - FEB 28, 1907

PRIVATE - SERGEANT 1861
1ST LIEUTENANT 1862
LIEUT. COLONEL 1863
COLONEL 1864
BREVET BRIGADIER GENERAL 1865

QUARTERMASTER 1900 - 1907

HIS RECORD IS HIS MONUMENT FOR
HE MADE IT HIMSELF

From FindAGrave.Com I found:
"Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Served in the Civil War first as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He was later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the 99th United States Colored Troops before becoming the Colonel and commander of the 48th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for 'meritorious services during the war'."
 

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General Walter W. Williams, reputed to have been the last surviving soldier of the Civil War. Walter joined the Confederate States Army. He started as a forage master, Company C, Fifth Regiment, Hood's Brigade. He is buried in one of the oldest public burial grounds in Robertson County. His daughter attributes the following to General Williams after the age of 100
* first airplane ride at 100
* rode a horse at age 103
* shot his last deer at 107
* appeared and danced on a tv program at 112
* given the honorary rank of General by Dwight D. Eisenhower

Grave site can be found at N 31 01.410 W096 25.422

General Walter W. Williams was 117 when he died in 1959.

 

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This is MG Richard Coulter of the Union Army. Born Oct 1, 1827, Died Oct 14, 1908. Mexican War - PVT, Co. E, 2nd PA Vol. Army; Civil War - CPT, LTC, & COL, 11th PA Vol. Inf; BG by Brevet "For gallant conduct in the Battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia"; MG by Brevet "For gallant conduct in the Battle of Five Forks, Virginia, in an energetic assault on the enemy on the ford road".

Thanks for the hunt, that makes kill #211 for us.

TEAM COPYCAT
California, PA


 

24th

This is the final resting place of Brigadier General Walter Payne. It is located in a large Confederate Cemetery in Marshall, TX.
 

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CONFEDERATE GEN. RICHARD CASWELL GATLIN

Place of rest at the FT. SMITH NATIONAL CEMETERY

Born in Winston, North Carolina Jan.18,1803 and died Sept.8, 1896.

Gen. Gatlin's family was buried with him and his wife's resting spot is in a tomb beside his grave. I can only speculate that this was her last wish as there are very few, if any other souls laid to rest in this manner here.

There is only one other General buried here, but Ozark Mtn. Ghost got to claim that one some time ago.

Found this on a sad day after some fellow cachers (ARVS#2 and OzarkMtnGhost's Grandmother was laid to rest in this same cemetery. Thought it would be fitting to dedicate this find to her memory and also to ARVS#2's dad and grandfather laid to rest here also in a most respectable place.

THanks for the cache.
 

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Selma, Alabama, has a wealth of history, including the burial site of CSA Brig. General John T. Morgan. The grave is located in the Old Live Oak Cemetary on Dallas Avenue in Selma, Alabama. Other dignitaries are also buried in this cemetary.
 

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Natchez City Cemetary - Mississippi

Brig General Thomas P. Dockery
Reserve
Corps of Arkansas
Dec 18, 1833
Feb 26, 1898

Fasinating history concerning his daughter Octavia.
Do a Google for "Goat castle" or "octavia dockery"

Both the following Generals have already been "found" in this historic cemetary but at least one more remains, if not more.

Major General William Thompson Martin
Brig. General Zebulon York

Beautiful place and did I mention their are 2 traditional caches placed here. What a place.

Edited: Spelling - grammer - etc

 

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This is the grave site of Confederate General William Brimage Bate. He is buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, TN. I hope you can read the information that was on the plaque in front of his grave.
 

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Found this marker of General William R. Scurry at the Texas State Cemetary. Lot's of important people here, very interesting visit!
 

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Baker, Edward Dickinson
Lawyer, Congressman, served in the Mexican war, US senator, and friend of President Lincoln.
Colonel of the Seventy-first Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry and major general of Volunteers 1861; killed in the Battle of Balls Bluff, Va., October 21, 1861; interment in section OSD, site 488 in San Francisco National Cemetery at The Presidio, San Francisco, California.

His death caused great shockwaves in Washington DC and the Senate went into mourning for 30 days. Currier & Ives published a print which depicted his death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Battle_of_Ball%27s_Bluff.png After his death no less than three forts (in three states), a city and a county (both in Oregon) were named after him.

Notes: He had not accepted the appointment to General at the time of his death, hence the rank on the gravestone. He is however listed in all Civi War reference works I checked including http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/ung_b.html and http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/projects/dbases/generals.htm

For more information see http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000059 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Baker and other websites and books.


 

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This is Brig. General Charles Hale Morgan's grave in Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, CA.

Born November 6 1834, Manlius NY
Died December 20 1875, Alcatraz Is CA
Pre-War Profession Graduated West Point 1857, artillery duty, Utah expedition.
War Service April 1861 1st lt. in 4th US Artillery, served in Washington defences, served in the artillery reserve in Seven Days, commanded artillery in II Corps, Lt. Col. and chief of staff to Hancock, May 1865 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers.
Brevet Promotions Brig. Gen. U.S.V. December 2 1864, Brig. Gen. U.S.A. March 13 1865.
Post War Career Army service in artillery garrisons.
Notes

As Motorbug points out in his note below there is some confusion about this gravestone but all documentation I can find says he was buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery. The 4th Artillery service is also listed on this stone.

The gravesite is in Section E, Site 390.

MORGAN, Charles Hale, soldier, born in Manlius, New York, 6 November, 1834; died on Alcatraz island, California, 20 December, 1875. He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1857, assigned to the 4th artillery, and took part in the Utah expedition of 1859. He became 1st lieutenant on 1 April, 1861, and was engaged in the western Virginia operations and in the defences of Washington from December of that year till March, 1862. He served in the Army of the Potomac during the peninsular campaign, was promoted captain on 5 August, 1862, and in October appointed chief of artillery of the 2d corps. He held a volunteer commission as lieutenant-colonel on the staff from 1 January, 1863, till 21 May, 1865. He engaged in the Rappahannock campaign, and was brevetted major for services at Gettysburg, lieutenant-colonel for the action at Bristoe Station, Virginia, colonel for Spottsylvania, colonel of volunteers, 1 August, 1864, for the Wilderness campaign, and brigadier-general of volunteers, 2 December. 1864, for services as chief-of-staff of the 2d army corps during the campaign before Richmond, Virginia He assisted in organizing an army corps of veterans in Washington, D.C.. in 1864-'5, and was assistant inspector-general and chief-of-staff to General Hancock, commanding the middle military division from 22 February till 22 June, 1865. From that date till 7 August, 1865, he was a member of the board to examine candidates for commissions in colored regiments. He was brevetted brigadier-general, United States army, 13 March, 1865, for services in the field during the war, and made full brigadier-general of volunteers on 21 May, 1865. He was mustered out of the volunteer service, 15 January, 1866, and from 10 March to 26 June, 1866, served on a board of officers to make recommendations for brevet promotions in the army. He was on recruiting service from 9 August, 1866, till 15 April, 1867, and became major of the 4th artillery oil 5 February, 1867. He then served in the artillery-school at Fortress Monroe and other stations on the Atlantic coast, and at the time of his death commanded Alcatraz Island, California.




 

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Daniel Harvey Hill is buried in Davidson College Cemetery in Davidson, NC. He was a lieutenant general for the Confederate Army and saw action at Battle of Big Bend, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Battle of Seven Pines, Seven Days Battles, Second Bull Run,, Antietem. His final action was at Chickamauga Hill.
Following the war, he held several positions, including president of the University of Alabama and of the Military and Agricultural College of Milledgeville, Georgia. He died at Charlotte, NC in 1889
 

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Jubal Anderson Early, Lieutenant General
Born November 3, 1816, Died March 2, 1894
Buried Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg

From the website http://www.jubalearly.org/jubal.html:

Despite his adept legal mind, his character and personality provoked controversy. He was consistently described by his peers as eccentric, outspoken, caustic, opinionated, and a great swearer with imaginatively profane speech - so much so that General Lee referred to his as his "bad old man." ...Early was wounded while out in front of his troops leading a charge against staggering odds.... He was so pugnacious it was said he would fight anything at anytime.

He was engaged in every major action in which the Army of Northern Virginia dueled.... Early defended Lynchburg, then chased Union Major General David Hunter to Hanging Rock. From there Early proceeded down the Valley to the very gates of Washington where he "scared the hell out of Lincoln." With an army of only 14,000 at its peak, and even that subsequently riddled by attrition and suffering a lack of supplies, Early tied up an army of 40 to 60,000.... It is estimated his actions prolonged the end of the war by at least six to nine months. Early headed home, having been relieved of his command just ten days before Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Jubal Early never surrendered. Federal troops scoured Franklin County looking for him as he moved from place to place. [He was]pardoned in 1868 by President Andrew Johnson. Early never took the oath and remained the unreconstructed Rebel. He returned to Lynchburg where he practiced law and became the major chronicler of the Southern Cause....Senator John Warwick Daniel, who served on Early's staff, eulogized him thusly: "Virginia holds the dust of many a faithful son, but not of one whom loved her more, who fought for her better, or would have died for her more willingly."
 

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General Ambrose Everett Burnside who is buried next to his wife. An Indiana native and West Pointer (1847), he served six years in the regular artillery, including garrison duty in Mexico and being wounded in an 1849 fight with Apaches in New Mexico Territory.
With the outbreak of the Civil War he raised a regiment and his assignments included: colonel, Ist Rhode Island (May 2, 1861); commanding 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Northeastern Virginia (June-July 1861); brigadier general, USV (August 6, 1861); commanding North Carolina Expeditionary Corps (December 1861 - April 1862); also commanding Department of North Carolina (January 13 - July 10, 1862); major general, USV (March 18, 1862); commanding 9th Corps, Army of the Potomac (July 22 - September 3, 1862, March 17-19, 1863, and April 13-August 14, 1864); commanding Left Wing, Army of the Potomac (September 1862); commanding Army of the Potomac (November 9, 1862 - January 26, 1863); and commanding Department of the Ohio (March 25 -December 11, 1863). After leading his brigade creditably in the flank attack at 1st Bull Run, he was mustered out with his three-months regiment on August 2, 1861.
For his successes at Roanoke Island and New Bern he was awarded a second star and was offered command of the main Union army following McClellan's failure on the Peninsula. Refusing this, he detached part of his corps to the aid of Pope in the 2nd Bull Run Campaign. Again offered command following that debacle, he again declined and was given charge of the lst and 9th Corps during the Maryland operations. He fought at South Mountain and then at Antietam, where his two corps were placed on opposite ends of the Union battle line. He nonetheless remained in wing command over the 9th Corps-a cumbersome arrangement that may explain his slowness in attacking at the Stone Bridge. The delay allowed A. P. Hill's Confederate division to come up from Harpers Ferry and contain the Union breakthrough. With McClellan's removal he was assigned to the command of the army. He hesitated but was convinced that he had no alternative but to obey the order. His advance upon Fredericksburg was rapid but later delays, some not his fault, allowed Lee to concentrate along the heights and easily repulse the Union attacks. Upset by the failure of his plan, Burnside declared that he himself would lead an assault by his old corps. He was talked out of it but relations between the commander and his subordinates were strained. Accepting full blame, he offered to retire but this was refused.
The next month he launched his ill-fated "Mud March," which bogged down before it was fairly underway. This time he asked that several officers be relieved of duty and court-martialed and also offered to resign. The latter was accepted; the former not. Lincoln was unwilling to lose him and assigned him to the Department of the Ohio. Here Burnside dealt with copperheads like Clement Vallandigham and Confederate raiders such as John Hunt Morgan. He advanced to Knoxville and was besieged there by Confederate General James Longstreet until a column under Sherman came to his relief. He fought at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania where he did not shine, appearing reluctant to commit his troops after the Fredericksburg experience. After North Anna and Cold Harbor he took his place in the siege lines at Petersburg where he bungled the follow-up to the explosion of the mine. He finally resigned on April 15, 1865. After his resignation he occupied numerous railroad and industrial directorships. During the course of his career, he was elected three times governor of Rhode Island (1866-'67-'68). In 1874 he was elected a US Senator from Rhode Island and served until his death at Bristol, Rhode Island, on September 13, 1881. His buried in Swan Point Centary, Providence, Rhode Island. Another of his legacies is the term "sideburns," which originated from his peculiar whiskers.

 

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1:53 p.m. #547
These coordinates are for the grave of Alexander Watkins Terrell, a Confederate Brigadier General and leader of "Terrell's Texas Cavalry Regiment" (1st Texas Calvary Regiment, Arizona Brigade, CSA) at the Texas State Cemetery. During his lifetime, he served as a judge, Confederate General, legislator and ambassador (U.S. Minister to Turkey in 1893, appointed by President Grover Cleveland). A more thorough bibliography can be found on the Texas State Cemetery's website at http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/pub/user_form.asp?step=1&pers_id=815.
 

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Brevet Brigadier General Thomas J. Rodman, 7-30-1815 / 6-9-1871. He was in charge of the Rock Island Arsenal (Rock Island, Illinois) where he developed several guns that were used during the Civil War.
 

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General John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864) buried in The Lexington Cemetery at Lexington, KY. He was the colorful "Thunderbolt of the Confederacy."
 

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Not a civil war general (not too many in CA) but achieved a first in aviation in the 20th century:

Lt Gen Archie J Old performed the first round-the-world nonstop jet plane flight. Maj. Gen. Archie J. Old, Jr. (USAF) led a flight of three Boeing B-52 bombers around the world in 45 hours, 19 minutes (completed Jan. 18, 1957). Not of the same era, so just logging this as a historical note for others east of the Mississippi to enjoy.

The Geo-Ranger played golf at the nearby golf course honoring this aviation pioneer.

 

19th

William Alexander Throop
 

2nd

American Cival War General Benjamin Rush Cowen born 8-15-1831 died 1-29-1908 is at rest in Greenwood Cemetery Bellaire O.H.

 

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General Turner Ashby is buried along with his brother in the beautiful Mt. Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Va. The general was known as "The Black Knight of the Confederacy" and was Stonewall Jacksons Cavalry Commander during the Valley Campaign of 1862. He was a famous horseman and rode into battle on a beautiful black or white horse. Born on October 23, 1828, he was killed in a skirmish at Chestnut Ridge near Harrisonburg, Va. on June 6, 1862. He was 33.
 

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John Joseph Abercrombie (1798-1877)

Soldier, graduate of West Point; saw service in the South, Northwest, Mexico; brigadier general of volunteers in Civil War; served at Falling Water, Seven Pines and other Virginia battle sites.

Final resting place: Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA.
 

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Union Brig Gen William Jackson Palmer was the founder of Colorado Springs. He is buried there in the Evergreen Cemetery...on the National Historic Registry. Block 74, Lot 72. The General and his family are in a prominent location with a good view of Pikes Peak. Born 17 September 1836, died 13 March 1909. Note, he was also a winner of the Medal of Honor. One of two in the Cemetery.
 

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Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss

PRENTISS, Benjamin Mayberry, soldier, born in Belleville, Wood County, Virginia, 23 November, 1819. He removed with his parents to Missouri in 1835, and in 1841 settled in Quincy. Ill., where he learned rope-making, and subsequently engaged in the commission business. In 1844-'5 he was 1st lieutenant of a company that was sent against the Mormons in Hancock, Illinois He served in the Mexican war as captain of volunteers, and on his return was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for congress in 1860. At. the beginning of the civil war he reorganized his old company, was appointed colonel of the 7th Illinois regiment, and became brigadier-general of volunteers. 17 Nay, 1861. He was placed in command of Cairo, afterward served in southern Missouri, routed a large body of Confederates at Mount Zion on 28 December, 1861, and joined General Grant three days before the battle of Shiloh, on the first day of which he was taken prisoner with most of his command. He was released in October, 1862, and appointed major-general of volunteers on 29 November He was a member of the court-martial that tried General Fitz-John Porter (q. v.). He commanded at the post of Helena, Arkansas, and on 3 July, 1863, defeated General Theophilus H. Holmes and General Sterling Price, who attacked him there. General Prentiss resigned his commission on 28 October, 1863.
He lived in Bethany Missouri & served as postmaster & lawyer where he now rests. There are several other Prentiss's resting with him.
 

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CSA General Joseph Horace Lewis
Commander of the Orphan Brigade.

b 10-29-1824 / d 7-6-1904
 

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The grave site of Union General George Gordon Meade is in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is buried on a hillside overlooking the Schuylkill River. His wife and other members of the Meade family are also in this family plot.

A Note Of Special Interest: Laurel Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of more than thirty Civil War Generals. Most were Union officers, but additionally there are also two Confederate generals buried in Philadelphia.
 

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Here lies Maj. General James Dada Morgan. This is in the Woodland Cemetary in Quincy, IL. We were incredibly lucky to find this site in short order having a picture of the grave to work with. LadyHawk actually spotted it from the road on the way in. As the pictures show, it is getting very difficult to read the inscriptions. Thanks for putting us on to this one!

Aquila & LadyHawk, Quincy, IL
 

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Name WHEELER, Joseph "Fightin' Joe"
Born September 10 1836, Augusta GA
Died January 25 1906, Brooklyn NY
Section 2, 1089. Arlington Cemetary, Arlington Virginia

One of only a handful of Confederates to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Joseph Wheeler qualified on the basis of his later service as a major general of volunteers in the Spanish-American War. The Georgia-born West Pointer (1859) had resigned his commission as a second lieutenant in the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen-he had briefly been posted to the dragoons in 1859-and, joining the South, had a meteoric rise.
The cavalryman's assignments included: first lieutenant, Artillery (1861); colonel, 19th Alabama (September 4, 1861); commanding Cavalry Brigade, Left Wing, Army of the Mississippi (September 14-November 20, 1862); brigadier general, CSA (October 30, 1862); commanding Cavalry Brigade, Polk's Corps, Army of Tennessee (November 20-22, 1862); commanding Cavalry Brigade, Hardee's Corps, Army of Tennessee (November 22-December 1862); commanding cavalry division, Army of Tennessee (December 1862-March 16, 1863); major general, CSA (January 30, 1863); commanding cavalry corps, Army of Tennessee (March 16, 1863-fall 1864); commanding Cavalry Corps, Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida (fall 1864-March 1865); lieutenant general, CSA (February 28, 1865); and commanding corps, Hampton's Cavalry Command, Army of Tennessee (March-April 26, 1865).
He led an infantry regiment at Shiloh and during the operations around Corinth, Mississippi, but was then assigned in the summer of 1862 to be chief of cavalry for Bragg's Army of the Mississippi. He led a mounted brigade at Perryville and a division at Murfreesboro. Given command of a corps of mounted troopers, he led it in the Tullahoma Campaign and at Chickamauga was in charge of one of the two cavalry corps (the other was under Nathan Bedford Forrest). However, soon after the battle conflicts between Forrest and Wheeler and Forrest and Bragg led to the reassignment of Forrest. Thus Wheeler was again in charge of all the mounted troops with the Army of Tennessee. He fought thus at Chattanooga and led his men in the Atlanta Campaign. During these last two campaigns he was noted for his raids on the Union supply lines. Following the fall of Atlanta, Wheeler's corps was left behind to deal with Sherman while Hood launched his invasion of middle Tennessee. With the small force at hand Wheeler proved unsuccessful in hindering Sherman's March to the Sea.
During the course of the campaign in the Carolinas, Wheeler was placed under the orders of Wade Hampton who had been transferred from Virginia. Taken prisoner in Georgia in May 1865, Wheeler was held at Fort Delaware until June 8th. A longtime congressman from Alabama in the postwar years, he donned the blue as a major general of volunteers in the war with Spain. In 1900 he was retired with the regular army rank of brigadier general. His Confederate career had earned him the sobriquet "Fightin' Joe. " (Dyer, John Percy, "Fightin'joe" Wheeler and From Shiloh to San Juan)

Wheeler homepage link: http://www.wheelerplantation.org/

To be honest I was astonished at the many references to this man but no actual log.
Flyingmoose
 

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Strange that you cannot log a DNF for a Locationless cache.

Robert Allen. Died 1886. Buried at Chene-Bougeries Cemetery, Geneva, Switzerland.
On first inspection this is a modern cemetery. Most of the graves are from 1940 - 2005. There are new gravel paths, and an orderliness and tidiness, giving a sense that this is a new cemetery. The Protestant temple at the main entrance gives no clues about its age. Having sent 2 e-mails to the Town Hall at Chene-Bougeries, requesting information and having received no reply, there was no alternative but to search the graves one by one (Sunday 14th August) in between rain showers. Strangely, there were 3 graves which were out of place. There were 2 graves from the 1890s and 1 grave from the 1750s. Maybe this is a modern cemetery built on top of an older one? To find this General, a French speaker needs to make an appointment at the Town Hall at Chene-Bougeries to view the cemetery records.
TFTC. Enjoyed the hunt.  

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I've been wanting to do this one for a long time but didn't know how to start the search and then I found findagrave.com. Looked at "famous" burials in the San Francisco National Cemetary and found several Civil War Generals interred there.

This is the grave of Charles Robinson Thompson. I couldn't find much more data other than that on findagrave.com:

Birth: Feb. 24, 1840
Death: Oct. 3, 1894

Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General

San Francisco National Cemetery
San Francisco
San Francisco County
California, USA
Plot: OFF 4, 5
 

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Stephen Augustus Hurlbut
b. 29 Nov 1815 Charleston, SC
d. 27 Mar 1882 Lima, Peru
Stephen A. Hurlbut moved to Belvidere, IL in 1845 to practice law.
At the start of the war he was a politcal appointee to Brigadier General. He commanded Ft. Donelson after its surrender to Grant in 1862. Under command of the 4th Div at Shiloh, he was the first to reach Pittsbug Landing which he held for a week. Promoted to Major General for meritorious service at Shiloh, he commanded at Memphis and later lead a Corps under Sherman in the advance on Meridian, MS. In 1864 he replaced General Nathaniel Banks as commander of the Dept. of the Gulf, a post he held until the close of hostilities.
He was a founding member of the Grand Army of the Republic and served as the GAR commander in chief from 1866-68.
After the war, Hurlbut was appointed Minister to Columbia 1866-72. He served two terms in Congress as a Representative (R-IL) 1873-77. He was Minister to Peru from 1881 until his death.
He is interred in Belvidere, IL.
 

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Major-General John Gray Foster is buried in Nashua Cemetery in Nashua, New Hampshire. He is one of the more renowned Union Generals from the Civil War. We were honored to be able to visit General Foster's final place of rest.

A brief biography of General Foster's life is recorded in W.P. Derby's book published in 1883, [url=http://webroots.org/library/usamilit/civil/ba27mr00.html]Bearing Arms in the Twenty-Seventh Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Infantry During the Civil War, 1861-1865[/url]. I have summarized some excerpts from this text below:

[quote]Major-General John Gray Foster was born at Whitefield, New Hampshire, May 27, 1823. He entered West Point June, 1842. Among his classmates were Generals McClellan, Couch, Gordon, Oaks, Reno, Stoneman and Sturgis, of the Union army; and Stonewall Jackson and Wilcox of the rebel army. He graduated July 1, 1846, fourth in standing, with a commission of brevet second lieutenant of engineers, United States Army. He was present in many of the engagements during the Mexican war, and was brevetted first lieutenant for gallant and meritorious conduct at Contreras and Cherubusco. At the storming of Molino del Rey, Sept. 8, 1847, he was one of the assaulting column, receiving a severe wound in the ankle, and for conspicuous service was brevetted captain.

From 1854 to 1857 he was assistant professor of engineering at West Point; and April 28, 1858, was assigned to the fortifications of North and South Carolina.

The opening of the war found Foster second in command at Fort Sumter, and for gallantry there, he was promoted to a brigadier-general of volunteers. On arriving north, General Foster was put in charge of the fortifications of New York Harbor, and was ordered Oct. 23, 1861, to report to General Burnside for duty. At Annapolis he was assigned to the command of the first brigade of the Burnside Expedition, the success of which was due in no small degree to his prudence and skill. After the capture of New Berne, NC, he was appointed military governor of that State, and succeeded to the command of the Department of North Carolina, whose successful record is largely due to his prudence, bravery and foresight.

July 16, 1863, General Foster was assigned to the consolidated command known as the "Department of Virginia and North Carolina." In November he was ordered to the command of the Department of Ohio, where, with a small body of men, he pressed through a hostile country to Cumberland Gap and Knoxville, Tenn., for the relief of General Burnside, then under siege at the latter place by Longstreet's rebel forces. An accident there caused General Foster's Mexican wound to re-open, necessitating a surgical operation, and by his own request he was relieved by General Schofield, Jan. 24, 1864. May 26, 1864, he was assigned to the Department of the South, which position he held until Feb. 15, 1865, co-operating with General Sherman in the capture of Savannah and Charleston, and having the pleasure of wresting from rebel hands the very fort (Sumter) from which he had been ruthlessly driven on the opening of hostilities. It was his fortune to hear the first gun that ushered in the civil war, and when at its close the news arrived in Florida of the surrender of Lee and Johnson, he was still pressing marauding bands infesting that State.

After thirty-two years of continuous service he retired to his home at Nashua, where, suffering some six months as a consumptive (a disease which had carried off most of his family), he died Sept. 2, 1874, and was buried with military and civic honors due his rank and services.

His remains now rest in the Nashua Cemetery. A plain marble shaft, bearing the following inscription, marks his last resting place:

To my Husband. John Gray Foster, Lieut. Col. U. S. Engineers, and Brevet Maj. Gen'l U. S. Army, Died at Nashua, Sept. 2, 1874, Aged 51.
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General William H Lytle is Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery along with 39 other Generals. This is not just a graveyard it is rich in Cincinnati history and you can see the names as you wonder through the facility. Spring Grove Cemetery is more like a park then a cemertery.

General William H Lytle was killed during the Battle of Chickamauga on September 20, 1863.
 

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All Locationless geocaches (including this one) will soon be archived. Please, if you have been eyeing a Civil War General in your area but have put off logging him, do so soon for it to count for this locationless. I cannot thank everyone enough for the wonderful logs and finds. This Generals at Rest cache has truly been a joy to own and it is a shame for it and the others to have to end. So be it.