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12. Feb. 2018 · William Starke Rosecrans was a West Point graduate and professor, engineer, businessman and inventor who began the Civil War as an aide to Major General George B. McClellan. He was briefly colonel of the 23rd Ohio Infantry but was soon promoted, to brigadier general on May 16, 1861. He was largely responsible the Union's early victories in northern Virginia at the Battles of Rich Mountain and ...
17. Mai 2017 · The William Starke Rosecrans of posterity has been filtered through the words of the general’s detractors, in wartime dispatches, newspapers and postwar memoirs—writings often authored by Grant or those loyal to him. To understand this rivalry and its influence on the command climate in the Western Theater, it helps to examine the obscure Battle of Iuka, Miss., and a brief period in the ...
William's father Crandall Rosecrans and his wife Jemima Hopkins (relative to Stephen Hopkins who signed the declaration of independence) lived on 160 acres next to Dr. Daniel's farm on Taylor Run. Their first son, Chauncey, born in 1817 died in infancy. William was born in 1819. It is said his father had been an admirer of General John Stark and hence his middle name. However, the Stark ...
8. Juni 2018 · Rosecrans, William S. (1819–1898), Civil War general, businessman, and politician.Ohio‐born and largely self‐educated, Rosecrans graduated from West Point in 1842. Resigning his commission after twelve uneventful years, he pursued a variety of unsuccessful business ventures. Rejoining the army in 1861 as a brigadier general in the Civil ...
12. Jan. 2024 · William Starke Rosecrans was born on September 6, 1819, at Little Taylor Run, Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio. He was the second of five sons of Crandell Rosecrans and Jemima Hopkins. His mother’s lineage included Stephen Hopkins, who signed the Declaration of Independence. U.S. Military Academy Cadet
79 Facts About William Rosecrans. 1. William Starke Rosecrans was an American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and US Army officer. 2. William Rosecrans gained fame for his role as a Union general during the American Civil War. 3.
3. Juli 2019 · William Starke Rosecrans was born at Little Taylor Run, OH on September 6, 1819. The son of Crandall Rosecrans and Jemima Hopkins, he received little formal education as a youngster and was forced to rely on what he could learn from books. Leaving home at age thirteen, he clerked at a store in Mansfield, OH before attempting to obtain an appointment to West Point from Representative Alexander ...
