Comprehensive Biographies of Senior Union Generals

Click on the links below for in-depth biographies of selected Union Army generals. These include generals who commanded departments, armies, and corps.  Sources include Scribner’s Dictionary of American Biography, Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, and the Federal Publishing Company’s The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States 1861-65—Records of the Regiments in the Union Army—Cyclopedia of Battles—Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers, Vol. VIII, Biographical.

Key Union Generals

Benjamin F. Butler

John C. Fremont

Ulysses S. Grant

Joseph Hooker

George B. McClellan

George G. Meade

Winfield Scott

Phillip H. Sheridan

William T. Sherman

Henry W. Slocum

George Thomas