Major-Gen. Halleck is a native of Oneida County. He entered the Military academy at West Point as a cadet in 1835, stood third in the class and was brevetted Second Lieutenant of Engineers in 1839. In 1845 he was appointed First Lieutenant. In 1847 he was promoted for his gallantry in California. In 1853 he was appointed Captain of Engineers. He is the author of a book on “Bitumen and its Uses,” and a series of lectures on Military Science, delivered before the Lowell Institute, in Boston. He was a member of the Committee to draft the Constitution for the State of California; he had previously been Secretary of State for the Territory of California. In the naval and military operations on the Pacific Coast, he was Chief of Commodore Shubric’s Staff. He is an astute lawyer – a man of fortune, and is now comparatively a young man, being only 42 years of age. His grandfather now in his hundredth year, is living in the village of Western, near Utica.
Gen. Crittenden is a Kentuckian, son of the Hon. J. J. Crittenden, and brother to the rebel Gen. George B. Crittenden. When the rebels first assumed a warlike attitude in Kentucky, he took command of the Home Guards {not the stay-at home,} and checked the progress of the Rebels toward Louisville. He comes of a good stock, and gives a good account of himself.
Gen. Hurlbut is a Carolinian by birth, but a citizen of the State of Illinois. At the outbreak of our troubles, he served in Missouri under Gen. Fremont. He now commands a part of Gen. Grant’s glorious army. He has the chivalry, the courage, and the magnanimity [of] the true soldier.
Gen. Buell is a native of Ohio, a graduate of West Point, and now in the meridian of life. He has been in the service twenty years, was in the Mexican War. When the present war broke out he was in the regular service in California. Congress made him a Brig-General and gave him command of a division of the army of the Potomac. When Gen. Anderson resigned his command, Gen. Buell was appointed to take his place in the department of Ohio. It was under his supervision the army that marched from Bowling Green to Nashville was raised and disciplined. On the reconstruction of the Departments he was created a Major General. He is a man of great physical strength and powers of endurance; has light hair, blue eyes, and wears a full beard. He is 42 years of age. Though slow to move, he is terrible in execution.
– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862
Gen. Crittenden is a Kentuckian, son of the Hon. J. J. Crittenden, and brother to the rebel Gen. George B. Crittenden. When the rebels first assumed a warlike attitude in Kentucky, he took command of the Home Guards {not the stay-at home,} and checked the progress of the Rebels toward Louisville. He comes of a good stock, and gives a good account of himself.
Gen. Hurlbut is a Carolinian by birth, but a citizen of the State of Illinois. At the outbreak of our troubles, he served in Missouri under Gen. Fremont. He now commands a part of Gen. Grant’s glorious army. He has the chivalry, the courage, and the magnanimity [of] the true soldier.
Gen. Buell is a native of Ohio, a graduate of West Point, and now in the meridian of life. He has been in the service twenty years, was in the Mexican War. When the present war broke out he was in the regular service in California. Congress made him a Brig-General and gave him command of a division of the army of the Potomac. When Gen. Anderson resigned his command, Gen. Buell was appointed to take his place in the department of Ohio. It was under his supervision the army that marched from Bowling Green to Nashville was raised and disciplined. On the reconstruction of the Departments he was created a Major General. He is a man of great physical strength and powers of endurance; has light hair, blue eyes, and wears a full beard. He is 42 years of age. Though slow to move, he is terrible in execution.
– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862
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