Ten Civil War Generals Who Were Famous for Something Else-- Part 2

6.  James A. Garfield  (Union)--  20th President of United States.  Defeated fellow Union General  Winfield Scott Hancock in 1880 election.  Shot while in office.  Died at hands of his physicians.

5.  John C. Breckenridge  (Confederate)--  Vice President of U.S. before the war.

4.  George B. McClellan (Union)--  Lost to Abraham Lincoln for president in 1864.  Governor of New Jersey after the war.

3.  Stand Watie  (Confederate)--  Last Confederate general to surrender.  Was a Cherokee Indian.

2.  George Crook  (Union)--  Made quite a name for himself after the war fighting Indians out West.  Involved with Custer's Last Stand and fighting Geronimo.

1.  Leonidas Polk  (Confederate)--  Episcopal priest and bishop.  Killed in the Atlanta Campaign.

--Old Secesh

U.S. Presidents with Union Ties

Same source as the presidents with Confederate ties.

Some of the ex-presidents still alive during the Civil War, including Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan, were vocal supporters of Lincoln and the Union cause.

Charles Francis Adams was the son of one president and grandson of another and was minister of Great Britain under Lincoln.  (John Quincy Adams and John Adams)

Lincoln's second vice president, Andrew Johnson, was a Tennessee senator who had remained loyal to the Union.  This helped present a united ticket in the 1864 election.  Johnson became president after Lincoln's assassination.

Five future U.S. presidents:  Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Harrison and McKinley, all fought for the Union.

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Not a Union Tie

Robert E. Lee's wife Mary was the granddaughter of George Washington's stepson.

--Old Secesh

Jacob D. Cox-- Part 1: Man of Many Hats

From Wikipedia.

Author the "Campaigns of the Civil War:  March To the Sea:  Franklin and Nashville."

So, who was this man?  Quite a remarkable man as it turns out.

JACOB DOLSON COX

(October 27, 1828-August 4, 1900)

Statesman, lawyer, Union Army general,  Republican politician from Ohio, 28th governor of Ohio, founder of the Liberal Republican Party,  author, recognized microbiologist, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, educator, U.S. representative and businessman.  Quite a life for this man.

I will stay mainly with his Civil War service, but his life is well worth the read.

In 1855, Jacob Cox helped organize the Republican Party in Ohio and was elected to the Ohio state senate in 1859, where he formed a political alliance with Senator and future President James A. Garfield.and with Governor Salmon P. Chase.  Some very important men.

While in the state legislature, he accepted a commission with the Ohio Militia as a brigadier general and spent much of the winter  of 1860-1861 studying military science.

Like I Said, An Amazing Man.  --Old Secesh