Union army generals

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. He previously led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 as commanding general.

James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had elected him to the U.S. Senate, a position he declined upon becoming president-elect.

President of the United States from 1865 to 1869

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. He served as Cincinnati's city solicitor from 1858 to 1861 and was known as a staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings. At the start of the Civil War, Hayes left a fledgling political career to join the Union army. He was wounded five times, most seriously at the Battle of South Mountain in 1862. Hayes earned a reputation for bravery in combat, rising in the ranks to serve as brevet major general. After the war, he was a prominent member of the "Half-Breed" faction of the Republican Party. Hayes served in Congress from 1865 to 1867 and was elected governor of Ohio, serving two consecutive terms from 1868 to 1872 and half of a third two-year term from 1876 to 1877 before his swearing-in as president.

Chester Alan Arthur was the 21st president of the United States, serving from 1881 to 1885. He was a Republican from New York who previously served as the 20th vice president under President James A. Garfield. Assuming the presidency after Garfield's assassination, Arthur's administration saw the largest expansion of the U.S. Navy, the end of the so-called "spoils system", and the implementation of harsher restrictions for migrants entering from abroad.

United States Army general (1820–1891)

United States cavalry commander (1839–1876)

American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author of 'Ben Hur' (1827-1905)

American soldier and politician (1826–1885)

United States Army general (1831-1888)

United States Army general and civil engineer (1815–1872)

American politician, explorer and military officer (1813–1890)

American frontiersman and Union Army general (1809-1868)

United States Army general (1786–1866)

American general and politician (1824–1881)

Union Army general, politician (1829-1906)

Union Army general (1815–1872)

American Union Army general (1814–1879)

American general and politician (1818–1893)

United States Army officer (1824–1886)

American military officer, professor, and 32nd Governor of Maine (1828–1914)

US Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Union Army general (1832-1895)

American general (1818–1885)

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Commanding General of the United States Army (1839-1925)

Union Army general (1805–1871)

Union United States Army general (1822–1892)

United States Army general (1816-1870)

Union Army General (1798-1879)

first Union general to be killed in the American Civil War

American politician of Massachusetts and general of the Union Army (1816-1894)

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general (1830–1909)

American diplomat, politician and army officer (1819–1898)

American military officer (1813–1864)

United States Army general (1820-1863)

American Union Army General (1818–1898)

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general (1831–1906)

Irish nationalist & American politician (1823-1867)

Union Army general

Union Army General (1826-1863)

United States Army general during American Civil War and Indian Wars (1828–1890)

Officer in the Grand Duchy of Baden; US Union Army general; civil servant (1824–1902)

Union Army General (1819-1873)

American politician (1833–1912)

Union Army General and governor of California (1822–1894)

Union Army general and politician (1811–1883)

Union Army general (1829-1890)

Irish-American politician and general (1806-1879)

Union Army general (1796–1878)

American soldier and politician (1826–1886)

general in the Union Army during the American Civil War

American Union Army general (1805–1866)

United States general, politician (1827–1894)

American planter, politician and ambassador to Russia (1810-1903)

Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient (1835-1933)

career officer of the United States Army (1828–1864)

Union Army general, politician (1821–1875)

American Union Army general (1822–1901)

Union Army general, politician (1817-1900)

Union Army General (1827–1896)

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient and Union Army general (1819-1914)