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Major general is a
military rank used in many countries. It is
derived from the
older rank of
sergeant major general. In English-speaking countries, when...
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Virginia Campaign waged by
Confederate Gen.
Robert E. Lee's Army of
Northern Virginia against Union Maj.
Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle...
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crossed it on the
morning of
April 27, 1863.
Union cavalry under Maj.
Gen.
George Stoneman began a long-distance raid
against Lee's
supply lines...
- Army of the
Potomac commanded by
Maj.
Gen.
Ambrose Burnside and the
Confederate Army of
Northern Virginia under Gen.
Robert E. Lee
included ****ile frontal...
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spelling Spottsylvania), was the
second major battle in Lt.
Gen.
Ulysses S.
Grant and
Maj.
Gen.
George G. Meade's 1864
Overland Campaign of the American...
- US Army Army of the ****berland
under Maj.
Gen.
William Rosecrans and the
Confederate Army of
Tennessee under Gen.
Braxton Bragg, and was
named for Chickamauga...
- use
naval ranks. It is
abbreviated as MG in the Army,
MajGen in the
Marine Corps, and
Maj Gen in the Air
Force and
Space Force.
Major general is the...
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discouraged European powers from
intervening on the Confederacy's behalf.
Union Maj.
Gen.
William S. Rosecrans's Army of the ****berland
marched from Nashville,...
- Corps,
under Maj.
Gen.
Edward O.C. Ord,
including the
divisions of Brig.
Gen.
Robert S. Foster,
Maj.
Gen.
Thomas M. Harris, and Brig.
Gen.
Charles Devens...
- at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and
continuing in the
Western Theater under Maj.
Gen.
William T. Sherman, but
departed in
protest before the end of the Atlanta...
