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Civil War Soldiers - Crittenden
CRITTENDEN, GEORGE B., Kentucky.
Colonel, Corps of Infantry, C. S. A., March 16, 1861.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., August 15, 1861.
Major general, P. A. C. S., November 9, 1861.
Resigned October 23, 1862, and continued to serve as a volunteer
during the war.
Died at Danville, Ky., November 27, 1880.
Commands.
Brigade composed of the Sixteenth Mississippi, Twenty-first Georgia,
Twenty-first North Carolina, and Fifteenth Alabama Regiments Infantry,
and Captain Courtney's Battery of Artillery, Longstreet's Corps, Army
of Northern Virginia.
Assigned command of District of East Tennessee and military operations
in East Tennessee and Kentucky, December 8, 1861.
Commanding Confederate forces at battle of Fisher's Creek, or Mill
Springs, Ky., January 19, 1862.
Commanding District of East Tennessee and military operations in East
Tennessee and Kentucky.
March 29, 1862, assigned command of Reserve Corps, Army of the
Mississippi.
Commanding Trans- Alleghany Department, May 31 to June 22, 1864.
September 5, 1864, relieved of command of troops in East Tennessee ;
commanding as colonel.
Crittenden, George Bibb, born in Kentucky, appointed from Kentucky
cadet United States Military Academy, July 1, 1828; graduated
twenty-sixth in a class of thirty-three.
Brevet second lieutenant, Fourth Infantry, July 1, 1832.
Resigned April 30, 1833.
Captain, Mounted Rifles, May 27, 1846.
Major, March 15, 1848.
Cashiered, August 19, 1848.
Reinstated, March 15, 1849.
Lieutenant colonel, December 30, 1856.
Brevet major, August 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in
the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, Mexico.
Resigned June 10, 1861.
Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate
States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
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| Crittenden, Thomas L., major-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Russellville, Ky., May 15, 1819, studied law
under his father, was admitted to the bar, and was elected
commonwealth's attorney in Kentucky in 1842. In the Mexican war he
served as lieutenant-colonel of Kentucky infantry, and was volunteer
aide to Gen. Taylor in the battle of Buena Vista. He was from 1849 to
1853, under appointment from President Taylor, consul to Liverpool,
then returned to the United States, resided for a time in Frankfort,
and afterwards engaged in mercantile pursuits in Louisville, Ky.
Espousing the Union cause at the beginning of the Civil war, he was
commissioned brigadier-general, Oct. 27, 1861. At Shiloh he commanded
a division and won by gallantry on that field promotion to
major-general of volunteers, being assigned to command of a division
in the Army of the Tennessee. He commanded the 2nd corps, forming the
left wing of Gen. Buell's Army of the Ohio, served afterwards under
Gen. Rosecrans in the battle of Stone's river, and at Chickamauga
commanded one of the two corps that were routed. He was afterwards
given command of a division of the 9th corps, Army of the Potomac, and
operated with that corps in the campaign of 1864. He resigned, Dec.
13, 1864, but was afterwards commissioned by President Johnson colonel
of the 32nd U. S. infantry, and in 1869 was transferred to the 17th
infantry. He was retired by reason of his age, May, 1881. Gen
Crittenden won by gallantry at Stone's river the brevet of
brigadier-general in the regular army, which was conferred on him,
March 2, 1867. He died at Annandale, Staten Island, N. Y., Oct. 23,
1893.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Crittenden, Thomas T.,
brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born in Alabama about 1828. He
served in the Mexican war, from Aug., 1846, to Sept., 1847, as 2nd
lieutenant in Willcock's battalion, Mo. volunteers, settled afterwards
in Indiana, and at the beginning of the Civil war enlisted for three
months as captain in a regiment of which be became colonel, April 27,
1861 — the 6th Ind. volunteers. He took part with a detachment of his
regiment in the battle of Philippi, and the regiment was reorganized
in September, under his command, for three years' service. He was
promoted brigadier-general of volunteers on April 28, 1862, and served
until May 5, 1864, when he resigned. He was taken prisoner at
Murfreesboro on July 12, 1862, and was not released till October.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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