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    Soldiers Have Fun with Nicknames for Top Leaders | Wisconsin Historical Society

    Historical Essay

    A Wisconsin Civil War Story

    Soldiers Have Fun with Nicknames for Top Leaders | Wisconsin Historical Society

    Lieutenant Colonel Michael Fitch of Milwaukee commanded the 21st Wisconsin Infantry during General William T. Sherman's famous March to the Sea in Four decades later he devoted an entire chapter of his memoir to soldiers' humor. Here he recalls soldiers' nicknames for the Union's top generals, and how Sherman was greeted outside Savannah, Georgia, at the end of the long march.

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    Union Generals of the Civil War,

    U.S. Grant is in the center, with H.W. Halleck on his left, and clockwise from there, George H. Thomas, William T. Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, George G. Meade, Joseph H. Hooker, William S. Rosecrans, and George B. McClellan. View the original source document: WHI

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    The relationship between soldiers and their commanders can be indicated by nicknames, which also provide insights into how opponents and civilians on both sides thought about various generals. Nathan Bedford Forrest, lauded by Confederates as the “Wizard of the Saddle,” vexed William Tecumseh Sherman as “that devil Forrest.” Rebels cursed Benjamin F. Butler as “Beast” and “Spoons” and mocked Nathanial P. Banks, whose army abandoned supplies during the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, as “Commissary Banks.” Saddled with the un-martial nickname “Old Brains,” Henry W. Halleck might have envied James Ewell Brown Stuart, whose three initials created “Jeb,” a splendid piece of luck for a dashing cavalryman. Richard S. Ewell (“Old Bald Head”) and William Farrar Smith (“Baldy”) certainly harbored no doubts about how they acquired their informal monikers.

    No general experienced a greater turnaround in nicknames than Robert E. Lee. Scorned as “Granny” or the “King of Spades” early in the war, h

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    List of American Civil War generals (Union)

    ImageNameSubstantive
    RankBrevet
    RankNotes Bailey, JosephBrigadier general, USV
    (November 10, ) Major general, USV
    (March 13, ) Received the Thanks of församling (June 4, ) Baird, AbsalomMajor, USA
    (November 12, )
    Brigadier general, USV
    (April 28, ) Major general, USA
    (March 13, )
    Major general, USV
    (September 1, ) USMA,
    MOH, Battle of Jonesborough (September 1, ) Baker, Edward DickinsonBrig. Gen., USV
    (May 17, ) KIA, Battle of Ball's Bluff (October 21, )
    Declined appointment as brigadier general, USV, nevertheless confirmed
    Nominated to major general, USV posthumously but not confirmed.[5]
    U.S. Congressman from Illinois (–, –)
    U.S. Senator from Oregon (–) Banks, Nathaniel PrentissMajor general, USV
    (May 16, ) Received the Thanks of församling (January 28, )
    U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts (–, –, –, –)
    Speaker of the House (–)
    Governor of Massachusetts (–) Barlow, Fran