Trivia 6-8-18 & Bonus

[FarawayFriend]

Correction to regular question:

Although his wound was not explicitly mentioned in my source above, Adelbert Ames would not have received the Medal of Honor for nothing. A second search revealed that he was badly wounded in the thigh at First Manassas which was earlier than Antietam.
So please change my answer to Adelbert Ames.

 

[Stony]

Hugh Judson Kilpatrick (January 14, 1836 – December 4, 1881). Wounded at Big Bethel.
source-wiki

bonus-The 1st Cavalry Regiment—later re-designated as the 4th Cavalry Regiment—was organized under the act of 3 March 1855.
source-https://history.army.mil/books/R&H/R&H-4CV.htm

 

[Eleanor Rose]

Adelbert Ames - graduated from West Point in May of 1861 and was injured at Bull Run in July, 1861
Source: http://civilwarintheeast.com/west-point-officers-in-the-civil-war/class-of-may-1861/

Bonus: The Army Corps of Engineers
Source: wild guess

 

[SWMODave]

On the bonus, according to the US Army Center of Military History... "The lieutenant-general, 2 major-, and 1 brigadier-generals of the 17 general officers of the fighting part of the army—nearly one-fourth—served their novitiate and received their first practical lessons in the military art in the commissioned ranks of the regiment. Moreover, not one of these generals was a mere political appointment: Not one of them was made a general officer for what he was expected to do, but for what he had done." - That equals 21 officers making general during the Civil War - all having served in the 3rd Regiment of Artillery or more widely known as the 3rd US Artillery.

Source

Edit - After reviewing the source that was presented, my interpretation is that the lieutenant-general, 2 major-, and 1 brigadier-general were included in the 17 general officers, not in addition to them. I checked the list of names provided in the source and found only 17 Civil War generals, only 4 of whom served on the Confederate side. So I'm ruling this answer incorrect.

hoosier

 

[JOHN42768]

Bonus: Cavalry Regiment

Edit - It was a cavalry regiment, but you needed to be more specific.

hoosier

 

[Wallyfish]

I am going with Adelbert Ames wounded at Bull Run.

Bonus. I remember some descrepency on a similar question. I am going with the West Point class of 1846. I don't recall what the issue was however.

 

[connecticut yankee]

BONUS: My guess is the pre-Civil War Regiment is the "Corps of Engineers"

 

[connecticut yankee]

The 1st one wounded was a member of West Point's May 1861 class. He was Adelbert Ames, wounded at the 1st Battle of Bull Run a short time after graduation.

 

[FarawayFriend]

Bonus:

After too many hours of searching I'm giving up on this one.
Up to now I thought the "regiment the stars fell on", named so because it provided such a huge number of future generals, North and South, was the original 2nd US Cavalry, "Jeff Davis' Own" in the old army.
But my source says that "only" 16 Civil War generals, not 21 (or even 22, after the edit!) as required in the question, came from that regiment. I will nevertheless go with the 2nd US Cav. because I hope that, if there was a regiment that even furnished five (or six!) more generals, it would have been mentioned anywhere in context with the 2nd US Cavalry so that I would have found it...

I'm really curious to see that hotbed of generals named and I'm sure some players will find out. Congrats and respect to them!

"Sixteen Civil War generals came from the rolls of the Regiment, eleven fought with the Confederacy and five for the Union. The original 2nd cavalry provided Jefferson Davis with one-half or four of his full generals - A. J. Johnston, Lee, E.K. Smith and Hood."
http://generalthomas.com/2nd_cav.htm

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Friday Question - Colonel Henry W. Kingsbury, West Point Class of May 1861, Mortally wounded at Antietam, Sep. 1862

Friday Bonus - After hours of searching I'm stumped and could not find a source that directly answered the question although I found a number of sources that stated the West Point Class of 1846 produced 20 or 21 future Civil War generals. Anyway, I'm going to take a stab at the answer and guess it's the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, aka "the regiment the stars fell on" because it produced 16 future generals for both sides during the Civil War. The 2nd Cavalry was the predominant regiment that kept showing up in my search results.

 

[GS]

1. Adelbert Ames, who graduated West Point in May 1861, and was wounded at the First Bull Run.

2. Bonus: (?????????????)

 

[sarladaise]

Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, wounded at the Battle of Big Bethel on June 10, 1861
http://www.gdg.org/research/OOB/Union/July1-3/jkilpatr.html

 

[roberts]

Hugh Judson Kilpatrick was the first wounded.

Bonus:

4th US Cavalry Regiment

 

[sarladaise]

Bonus: First US Cavalry
Source: Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3
Could find no source for either 21 or 22 civil war generals

 

[Jimklag]

Source for bonus answer.

 

[Schwallanscher]

regular:

adelbert ames, had to check every bloke in the class of may 1861

bonus:

has to wait

 

[hoosier]

The knowledge that the correct regiment might have included 22 future Civil War generals didn't help me all that much. I have to pass on this one.

 

[HarlechMan]

Correction - the regiment was known during the Civil War as the 1st Cavalry

 

[HarlechMan]

Further correction - the War Department didn't renumber it until 3 August 1861, so when these men served with it in the frontier army it would have been the 1st Cavalry.

 

[HarlechMan]

Final bonus answer: the 2nd US Cavalry, redesignated the 5th Cavalry in 1861. https://history.army.mil/books/R&H/R&H-5CV.htm
The colonel turned major general is Custer by the way.