Oh, Those Civil War Generals-- Part 5: About All Those 'Brevets'

Notes on Bruce Allardice's figures already printed:

**  More modern research shows that Ezra Warner in his book "Generals in Gray" missed the prewar state militia service and military school attendance of a number of Southern generals.

**  An additional 1,400 Union officers were made "brevet" generals.  Under law, a "brevet" rank entitled an officer to command as a general, without the substantive rank of general.  In practice, most of the promotions to "brevet" general were made after the war (some as late as 1869), to honor and reward their wartime service at a lesser rank.

I found this especially true when going through a list of Union veterans who were buried in a Chicago cemetery and found a whole lot of colonels who had been brevetted to brigadier general.

**  Warner also excludes many officers promoted to general in one fashion or another, but for whom proof of appointment is/was lacking.

--Old Secesh