Forgotten Commanders

[ReveaZapcre]

Well, so let's list some very much competent but quite forgotten commanders (especially corp).

Union
David S. Stanley
Peter J. Osterhaus
Eugene A. Carr
Frederick Steele
Frank Blair
John G. Parke
Jacob D. Cox

Confederate
John B. Magruder

 

[jackt62]

Here are a few more Union commanders that may not be quite forgotten, but don't get the same amount of attention:

Alpheus Williams
George Greene
Grenville Dodge
Alexander Hays
Frank Haskell

 

[Cavalier]

Israel B. Richardson
A.A.Humphreys
Isaac Stevens

John

 

[ReveaZapcre]

Ah yes, I wanted to mention Stevens. Being overshadowed in death is pretty crushing.

 

[LSBusch]

William T. Shaw

 

[1NCCAV]

Union: James Wilson and Emory Upton.

Confederate: James B. Gordon

Not totally forgotten, perhaps, but not often mentioned.

 

[damYankee]

George Sears Green

 

[3rdIndianaCav]

Grenville Dodge

Was assaulted by Thomas Sweeney, one of Dodge's division commanders. Dodge rode up and took personal command of Sweeney's division at Battle of Atlanta. This greatly upset the one armed Sweeney who later confronted and engaged in fisticuff(s) with Dodge and John Fuller, another division commander.
Sweeney was arrested, removed from command, and court martialed. Good stuff.

 

[rbasin]

Here are a few more Union commanders that may not be quite forgotten, but don't get the same amount of attention:

Alpheus Williams
George Greene
Grenville Dodge
Alexander Hays
Frank Haskell

Williams is vastly under discussed

 

[Eric Wittenberg]

David M. Gregg
Robert H. G. Minty, the finest cavalry brigade commander of the war

 

[Ole Miss]

Sweeney was a combative man who bravely led his men at Shiloh, even though he had already lost his right arm during the Mexican-American War.
Regards
David

 

[Ole Miss]

Confederate Brigade and Divsion commanders in the Army of Tennessee are pretty much forgotten except Patrick Cleburne
Regards
David
Just a few who are worthy of remembrance:
Randal Gibson
James R. Chalmers
Claudius W. Sears
Alexander P. Stewart

 

[Cavalier]

There a song about Sweeney I believe, "Tom Sweeney took the field with his men as hard as steel", and I think he was wounded in the other arm at Shiloh, a pretty cool guy. And, if I am not mistaken, he was involved in the Fenian invasion of Canada.

John

 

[3rdIndianaCav]

Have to have respect for a guy with one arm willing to fist fight his superior and another guy. Then again, one of my favorites is Jeff C. Davis and we all know what happened to Bull Nelson when he disrespected Jeff.

 

[1NCCAV]

.......let's list some very much competent but quite forgotten commanders.......

Captain Raphael Semmes, skipper of the CSS Alabama. The Alabama conducted seven expeditionary raids, boarded 450 vessels and burned 65 Union merchant vessels during 534 days at sea without visiting a Confederate port.

 

[NedBaldwin]

Well, so let's list some very much competent but quite forgotten commanders (especially corp).
...

Tom Ransom - Colonel 11th Missouri at Fort Donelson (wounded) and Shiloh (shot in the head), Brigade commander in Vicksburg campaign, division commander in Red River campaign (wounded), and commander of 17th Corps for battle of Jonesborough and the aftermath of the fall of Atlanta, when he died from dysentry one month shy of his 30th birthday.