See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY See also:JACKSON See also:HUNT (1819-1889)
, See also:American soldier, was See also:born in See also:Detroit, See also:Michigan, on the 14th of See also:September 1819, and graduated at the U.S. military See also:academy in 1839
.
He served in the Mexican See also:War under See also:Scott, and was breveted for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco and at Chapultepec
.
He became See also:captain in 1852 and See also:major in 1861
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His professional attainments were See also:great, and in 1856 he was a member of a See also:board entrusted with the revision of See also:light See also:artillery See also:drill and See also:tactics
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He took See also:part in the first See also:battle of See also:Bull Run in 1861, and soon afterwards became See also:chief of artillery in the See also:Washington defences
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As a See also:colonel on the See also:staff of See also:General M`Clellan he organized and trained the artillery reserve of the See also:Army of the See also:Potomac
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Throughout the See also:Civil War he contributed more than any officer to the effective employment of the artillery See also:arm
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With the artillery reserve he rendered the greatest assistance at the battle of See also:Malvern See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill, and soon afterwards he became chief of artillery in the Army of the Potomac
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On the See also:day after the battle of See also:South See also:Mountain he was made brigadier-general of See also:volunteers
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At the See also:Antietam, Fredericksburg and See also:Chancellorsville, he rendered further See also:good service, and at See also:Gettysburg his handling of the artillery was conspicuous in the repulse of Pickett's See also:charge, and he was rewarded with the See also:brevet of colonel
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He served in See also:Virginia to the end of the war, attaining the brevet ranks of major-general of volunteers and brigadier-general of regulars
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When the U.S. army was reorganized in 1866 he became colonel of the 5th artillery and See also:president of the permanent Artillery Board
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He held various commands until 1883, when he retired to become See also:governor of the Soldiers' See also:Home, Washington, D.C
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He died on the 11th of See also:February 1889
.
He was the author of Instructions for See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field Artillery (186o), and of papers on Gettysburg in the " Battles and Leaders " See also:series
.
His See also:brother, LEwls See also:CASS See also:HUNT (1824-1886), served throughout the Civil War in the See also:infantry arm, becoming brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, and brevet brigadier-general U.S.A. in 1865
.
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