Congress Gives Thanks to Union Generals-- Part 2

The U.S. Congress also gave its thanks during the course of the war.  They limited their official thanks to just 15 army officers:

**  Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon--  the North's first hero, given posthumously.  Killed August 10, 1861, at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.

**  Major General Ambrose Burnside

**  Major General Joseph Hooker for the defense of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.

**  Major General William S. Rosecrans for his victory at Stones River, Tennessee.

**  Ulysses S. Grant  He also received the only Gold Medal awarded during the Civil War for his victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg.

--Old Secesh