James L. Donaldson

Brigadier General James L. Donaldson served as Chief Quartermaster of the Department of the Cumberland and later the Military Division of Tennessee, organizing the massive supply and transportation network that sustained Grant’s, Sherman’s, and Thomas’s armies. He also organized quartermaster personnel into combat units and took part in the Battle of Nashville. Brevetted major general, […]

James H. Wilson

Brevet Major General James H. Wilson led the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi, fighting at Corinth, South Mountain, Antietam, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga before commanding a division under Sheridan. He directed Wilson’s Raid through Alabama and Georgia in 1865, capturing Selma. He survived the war, worked as a railroad engineer, and […]