Tennessee williams biography brevet

A Collection of Letters to (and from) Brevet Item #39389 Tennessee Williams: An Intimate Biography.
Tennessee Williams's birth, events were held with Williams's life and career—New Orleans held general or brevet brigadier general, and have.
William Brickly Stokes (September 9, 1814-March 14, 1897) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee.

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List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union)

NameHighest
actual gradeUnitBrevet grade, rank dateDate confirmedNotes, other dates Babbitt, Edwin Burr Colonel Deputy Quartermaster Gen. USA Bvt. Brig. Gen. USA, March 13, 1865 March 2, 1867 USMA, 1826.
Mexican–American War veteran.
Retired as Regular Army colonel, 1866. Babcock, Orville EliasLt. Colonel Aide-de-Camp, USA Bvt. Brig. Gen. USA, March 13, 1865 July 23, 1866 Staff of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant,
March 29, 1864–July 24, 1866.
Colonel, USA, ADC to General Grant,
July 25, 1866–March 4, 1869.
Secretary to President Grant, 1869.
Drowned June 2, 1884. Babcock, Willoughby Lt. Colonel 75th Regiment New York Volunteer InfantryBvt. Brig. Gen. USV, September 19, 1864 March 24, 1868 Brevet for conspicuous gallantry at Battle of Opequon
(Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia), mortally wounded. Bache, HartmanColonel Corps of Engineers, USA Bvt. Brig. Gen. USA, March 13, 1865 February 23, 1867 USMA, 1818. Retired as Regular Army colonel, 1867.

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Alpheus Starkey Williams was born in Deep River, Connecticut, on September 20. 1810. His father died when he was eight, his mother when he was seventeen. However, he was left an estate of $75,000 which allowed him to graduate from Yale in 1831, study law and travel extensively in the United States and Europe spending a year and a half in the latter place in 1834-1836.

It was during this time that his military self education began. "Williams improved his familiarity with European military history and expressed a particular interest in the French military experience. He toured many battlefields, visited arsenals and military museums, and acquired a considerable knowledge of weaponry."¹

Why he moved to Detroit in 1836 is unclear, but it would be his home for the remainder of his life. There, he established himself as a lawyer, he married his first wife Jane, nee Larned, and produced three five children of whom two died young. Jane passed away in 1848 and he remained unma

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Today’s post is written by Dr. Greg Bradsher, Senior Archivist at the National Archives at College Park, MD.

At Benedict, Maryland, in command of U.S. Colored Troops, on December 17, 1863, Union Army Lt. Col. Samuel Chapman Armstrong wrote, “we are fighting for humanity and freedom, the South for barbarism and slavery.”^[1] Just three years earlier he had been a college student in the Kingdom of Hawaii and in 1862, before beginning his military service, he was a senior at Williams College. His story, particularly regarding what he was fighting for in his adopted country and his evolving views regarding African Americans, is quite interesting and well worth telling.

Early Life

Armstrong was born January 30, 1839, on the island of Maui, Hawaiian Islands. From 1831, his parents, Richard Armstrong of Pennsylvania and Clarissa Chapman of Massachusetts, were missionaries, till his father’s appointment, in 1847, as Minister of Public Instruction, when he took charge of, and in part built up, the five hundred Hawaiian free schools and some of the higher educational work. Young