John Gunnison: A Brief Biography

George Armstrong Custer was a United States cavalry officer who served with distinction in the American Civil War and was the youngest ever brevet brigadier general at age twenty-three (History.com Staff, 2009). Custer had various disciplinary issues throughout his career ranging from abandoning his post for romantic reasons to leaving the field without searching for a slain reconnaissance unit (History.com Staff, 2009). His expedition in 1874 that led to the discovery of gold, was in violation of the treaty of 1868 wherein the Black Hills were recognized to belong to the Sioux Nation. Custer was known to have a reckless temperament and was often at odds with superior officers. Nevertheless, as a Lieutenant Colonel assigned to the Seventh Cavalry Regiment out of Fort Riley, Kansas, Custer was tasked to lead the force against Sitting Bull’s alliance (History.com Staff, 2009).

George Brinton McClellan was born on December 3, 1826 into a high ranked family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died in Orange, New Jersey on October 29, 1885. McClellan lived a wonderful life, graduating second in his class from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1842. This was very impressive since he made the choice to enter the military service at 15 years old, and still got accepted even though he was several months shy of the age requirement which happened to be 16. As well as this, he was a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. George B McClellan achieved a lot throughout his life, he was a very productive man. As General Winfield Scott’s army proceeded through the Mexican war terrain, McClellan constructed bridges and roads to help them. Soon after this war, he went back to West Point to become an instructor. He was also a skilled french speaker, so he helped with translations often. Following this, McClellan joined the military, but resigned to work for the Illinois Central Railroad.

During the French and Indian War, British soldiers didn’t know the terrain as well as the Americans, or the fighting style of the Native Americans. George Washington (even though he failed at Fort Necessity) knew the most about the fighting style, and was desperate to redeem himself. (doc. C) Still, General Braddock neglected to take his advice, and it cost him the battle

John Wilkinson, born in Norfolk, Virginia on November 6, 1821 was only 16 years old when he joined the navy. He was a naval cadet in the US Navy. Wilkinson was not entirely close with his father, Jesse Wilkinson. In fact, he actually grew up without him. He was not very talented when it came to his studies. This is because this was before the Naval Academy was created.

Born in western Massachusetts in 1760, Joseph Plumb Martin was the son of a pastor; at the age of seven, he began living with his affluent grandfather. Almost as soon as the Revolutionary War broke out in the spring of 1775, young Joseph was eager to lend his efforts to the patriotic cause. In June 1776, at the tender age of 15, Martin enlisted for a six-month stint in the Connecticut state militia. By the end of the year, Martin had served at the Battles of Brooklyn, Kip’s Bay and White Plains in New York. Though Martin declined to reenlist when his six-month stint ended in December 1776, he later changed his mind, and on April 12, 1777 he enlisted in the 8th Connecticut division of General George Washington’s Continental Army, led by

MacArthur was born on an Army base in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 26, 1880, into a family with military history. When he was born his Dad was a captain , and had been decorated for his service in the Union Army during the Civil War. His Mom's brothers fought for the south during the civil war. The base where he was born was just the first of several military post which he lived as a kid. In 1893 his family moved to San Antonio, Texas, and he attended the West Texas Military Academy. After high school, he enrolled in the military academy at West Point, where he excelled, and in 1903 he graduated with honors. After graduation, MacArthur was commissioned as a junior officer in the Army Corps of Engineers.

Robert Anderson led the force of U.S. soldiers at Ft. Sumter. Anderson couldn’t use his powerful cannons to fire back at the Confederate attack. The cannons were in open space above the fort, where lots of the gunners had no

I bet you know about the Civil War, but do you know about the people who led the armies during the Civil War? Well I am going to tell you about one of the generals was one of the major parts of the Civil War and in a way not a big part.Braxton Bragg, a leader, student, soldier, and a general. He was a Confederate leader. Although he won a very important war for the Confederate side of the Civil War, he was overall an ineffective general. There is many different ways he was a good general and a bad one. He was not to bright of a general. One time he order a soldier to get a gun from a fallen soldier as they was retreating because that gun was government property.He soldiers lost all respect for him, he could of won a war that they had secured,

Major Robert Rogers was born in Colonial Massachusetts in 1731 and later moved to rural New Hampshire with his family. It was here where he learned many traits that would make him successful later in life such as hunting, trapping and learning Indian tactics from past Indian attacks. During King George’s War (1744-1748), Robert Rogers served as a private in two scouting companies serving in Merrimack River Valley in New Hampshire (McNab, C. 2013). Later, during the French and Indian War 1754-1763), the then Major Rogers recruited nine companies of American colonists to fight for the British as Ranger units (Ranger Training Brigade, 2006). Additionally, Major Rogers was tasked to command a company of men charged with the task of raiding deep into

Threats and attacks on neutral Indians were common among soldiers. Indians lived near the forts in order to trade. Soldiers were constantly afraid and “garrisons spent more time dreading attack than undergoing it”. (130) The soldiers had no way to know if there were spies among them, which made them suspicious of all so sometimes they just killed them all. Even when the killing never happened, the threats, bullying, drinking and bragging by both whites and Indians kept the fear going.

I was born on 26 July 1971 in Kingstree, SC the second child of Robert Snowden Jr. and the late Ila Mae Swinton Snowden. I am the second born of eight siblings and the first to attend college. I graduate from Williamsburg County Public school in June of 1990. In August of 1990 I enrolled Claflin College in Orangeburg, SC as a freshman pursuing a degree in Biology. I also pledge The National Honor Society of Pershing Rifle the fall of that same year. In August of 1991 I transferred to South Carolina State University where I attended school until 1993. I left school because of some personal issues; my son was born August 18th 1993 (Damien A. Rodgers) but remained in Orangeburg, SC working until 1996. In 1996 I moved to Columbia, SC to live with

The southeastern fringe of the United States was persistently turbulent amid the mid nineteenth century. There was tension brewing along the border of Florida and Georgia, which was brought on by the gathering of various opponents. Rebellious men from other states such as Georgia entered Florida with expectations of outright taking the Seminole stallions and cows, not caring and having little to no regret if an Indian was killed while trying to defend his property. The Seminole warriors, looking for requital, led attacks of retaliation against honest pilgrims in Georgia. Privateers and British go getters meandered the range, actuating the Indians against the Americans, whose eager for land expansionists pined for the domain south of the Georgia outskirt. Authorities of the disintegrating Spanish Empire, whose banner flew over the state, were feeble to control occasions or stop the viciousness.

In 1823, Native Americans fired upon a group of American soldiers on the Missouri River. At the time the attack seemed random and unsolicited, but this isn’t true. Conflict over trade between the British and the Native Americans in the wake of the American Revolution manifested itself in the Native Americans’ hostility through the British trade of weapons and alcohol, and American Secretary of War John Calhoun’s willful ignorance to preserve plausible deniability. The introduction of trading houses in U.S. territory by a British company provoked the federal government to send an unofficial military group consisting of irresponsible men to reestablish trade with the Arikara Indians in an attempt to drive the British off their land. Alternatively,

I don't think that Captain Clardy is ever going to leave me alone. One day I went into his office to ask him if I can fire my gun. Firing my gun helps em clean it better. He said I could so went on ahead and fired my gun. An officer said I was under arrest for shooting my gun, and Captain Clardy denied that he gave me permission. He then made me work on the fort. The more I worked the more I hated Captain Clardy. In May 1862 I was transferred to Fort Scott. I was with Colonel Weer and we went into the Cherokee Indian Nation. We would try and give the refugees their homes back. I was growing extremely tired. I couldn't believe that I had been in the army for thirteen months and I haven't fired a shot in combat. While I was Fort Scott a native

In 1846 General Kearny leads an army West to Santa Fe, New Mexico. He intends to gain control of New Mexico as he claims it is American territory. His march was met with hardship from lack of water, and frankly nothing but desert for the mass duration of his journey. Upon reaching camp he is confronted by a lieutenant, a sergeant, and two privates from Mexican forces. Conflicts arise between General Kearny and Manuel Amijo. General Kearny himself put forth, “All who obey me, and do not resist, I will respect, and make secure in their property,