John Alexander McClernand (May 30, 1812 – September 20, 1900) was an American lawyer, politician, and a Union Army general in the American Civil War....

1931-SW of Arlington National Cemetery. Edward John McClernand's father was Major General John Alexander McClernand, commander of the XIII Army Corps in the...

Antietam Creek, September 1862. Abraham Lincoln, Allan Pinkerton and John Alexander McClernand, visiting the Antietam battlefield, 1862. A Sharpshooter's Last...

from McDowell's First Brigade had reunited with Sherman and McClernand, and three additional regiments arrived for reinforcement. McClernand's troops...

Lawrence Chamberlain Jacob Dolson Cox John Adams Dix John C. Frémont Nathan Kimball John A. Logan John Alexander McClernand Daniel Sickles James B. Steedman...

General John A. McClernand, Bielaski was killed while leading the 27th Illinois Infantry Regiment in a charge at the Battle of Belmont. Alexander Bielaski...

Michael Kelly Lawler, Union Army officer John Alexander McClernand, Union Army general and U.S. congressman John McLean, U.S. senator and congressman William...

general Reverdy Johnson, Senator from Maryland John Alexander McClernand, Union General from Illinois John Adams Dix, James Buchanan's Secretary of the...

the start of the Vicksburg Campaign. In the aftermath, General John Alexander McClernand insisted on assuming command despite being a political appointee...

ISBN 0-8117-1049-1. McHenry, Robert ed. Webster's American Military Biographies (1978) Meyers, Christopher C. Union General John A. McClernand and the Politics...

and political figures about McClernand's suitability for an independent command, an arrangement was reached where McClernand was permitted to recruit soldiers...

to the United States Military Academy. He interviewed with Congressman Alexander Harper, who had been reserving his appointment for his son, but Harper...

Beacon." When Lincoln commissioned the Southern Illinois Democrat, John Alexander McClernand, as a brigadier general, he told him to "keep Egypt right side...

1901 Vachel Lindsay John Alexander McClernand Alfred Orendorff John Carroll Power – first custodian of Lincoln's Tomb Alexander Starne – Illinois Secretary...

Since 2023, the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee has been Michael McCaul of Texas. The committee has a broad mandate to oversee legislation regarding...

Abraham Lincoln had strongly backed the military appointment of John Alexander McClernand, a prominent War Democrat. In our history this did not have far-reaching...

5th Governor of Arkansas from 1852 to 1860 (died 1892) May 30 – John Alexander McClernand, lawyer, politician, and Union General during the American Civil...

On April 26, Major General John Alexander McClernand arrived at Alexandria to assume command of the XIII Corps. McClernand brought the 2,600 troops of...

432. Its county seat is Hardinsburg, Kentucky. The county was named for John Breckinridge (1760–1806), a Kentucky Attorney General, state legislator,...

county totals as listed in Illinois: Historical and Statistical (1892), John Moses, Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., pp. 1208-1209. Congressional District...

an overwhelming United States Army force under U.S. Maj. Gen. John Alexander McClernand. After his exchange, Churchill served for a brief time in the...

of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899) Palmer, John M. (1938). "Thomas Langrell Harris: A Biography by Stephen A. Douglas and...

2010 census, the district included portions of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties. All or parts of Algonquin, Barrington, Barrington Hills, Bartlett...

possibility of war, McClernand Butler became a second lieutenant in the Regular Army. Butler's great-grandfather, General John Alexander McClernand, commanded...

Henry Watterson served as the temporary convention chairman and John Alexander McClernand, a retired congressman and major general, served as permanent...

hotel to get a better look at the dignified guests. Even General John Alexander McClernand and staff, who were passing through Altoona, decided to observe...

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1821) August 16 – John James Ingalls, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1873 to 1891 (born 1833) September 20 – John Alexander McClernand, lawyer, politician...

corps. After the war, Logan returned to politics as a Republican. John Alexander McClernand, Congressman from Illinois, served in the Western Theater, taking...

General Peter Joseph Osterhaus, and of the corps of Union General John Alexander McClernand, he aided in the building of pontoon bridges. Army]] Edward Lyon...