Bios for Brevard, Briggs, Brisbin, Brooke and Brooks - 12/18/2006 5:42:57 AM
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Brevard,_T.W. (1835-1882) North Carolina-born lawyer Brigadier General Theodore Washington Brevard served almost the entire Civil War in Florida and he became the last formally appointed general in the Confederate Army. He was an 1849 graduate of West Point. When war broke out he was serving as the adjutant and inspector general for the state of Florida. He was also a judge and the comptroller of his adopted state. In September 1862 he was appointed a major in the 1st Florida Partisan Rangers Battalion (also known as Brevard’s Rangers). In mid-1863 he assumed command of the newly designated 2nd Florida Battalion leading them through the sparsely manned areas of the state. He was promoted to Colonel commanding the 11th Florida just before he and his men were sent to Virginia. Arriving in time to fight at Cold Harbor, he led his regiment through the Petersburg siege until he was promoted to brigadier general in March 1865. It is believed he was in command of the Florida Brigade of Mahone’s Division but there is no evidence of it in the Official Records. It also frequently reported that he fought in the Battle of Olustee but again there is no record of either he or his men being in that action. Late in the war he was adjutant general to General Lee and was captured at Saylor’s Creek. He was not sent to Fort Warrenton as the other generals captured that day were and was instead paroled. After the war he returned to his law practice. A county on Florida’s Atlantic Coast was named after the long time public servant.
Leadership: 3
Tactical: 3
Initiative: 3
Command: 3
Cavalry: 3
Briggs,_H.S. (1824-1887) Massachusetts lawyer Brigadier General Henry Shaw Briggs had long been active in his state’s militia. An 1844 Williams College graduate, he was admitted to the state bar in 1848. In 1856 he was elected to the state legislature. He was captain of the Allen Guard in the 8th Massachusetts Militia at the outbreak of the war. This unit was sent to Anapolis before the three month unit was disbanded. He was appointed colonel and commander of the 10th Massachusetts in June 1861. Joining the Army of the Potomac, he took part in the Peninsula Campaign and was wounded in both thighs at Seven Pines. During his recovery in July 1862 he was promoted to brigadier general. Never fully recovering from his wounds, he commanded a brigade guarding Maryland and for a short time, a division in the Army of the Potomac. At this point his wound made him incapable of further field service and he spent the remainder of the war supervising a camp for draftees in Alexandria, Virginia. Mustered out in December 1865, he returned to Massachusetts and served as state auditor until 1869. Subsequently he was a district court judge as well as appraiser at the Boston Custom House in his native state.
Leadership: 3
Tactical: 3
Initiative: 3
Command: 3
Cavalry: 0
Brisbin,_J.S. (1837-1892) Active in the antislavery movement, Pennsylvania lawyer and teacher Brigadier General James Sanks Brisbin entered the Union Army as a private at the outbreak of the war. Soon after, he was appointed a 2nd lieutenant in the 1st Dragoons. He saw action with that unit at 1st Bull Run and was wounded. In August 1861 he was promoted to captain in the 6th Cavalry. During his service with that unit he was brevetted for his actions at Beverly Ford. In March 1864 he was promoted to colonel and took command of the 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry Regiment. As a staff officer he took part in the Red River Campaign and was wounded at Sabine Crossroads. Next, he went to Kentucky to organize another regiment and earned another brevet for a fight at Marion in East Tennessee. With hostilities virtually at a close, he was promoted to brigadier general in May 1865. Shortly after his promotion he was mustered out of the volunteers as a brevet major general. He continued in the regular army until his death as a colonel while commanding the 8th U.S. Cavalry Regiment. In 1882 he purchased a ranch on the Yellowstone River and was very interested in agriculture, land, and cattle ranching, for which he acquired the nickname "Grasshopper Jim". A prolific writer, he was a constant contributor of articles and letters to Eastern periodicals on a wide range of subjects.
Leadership: 4
Tactical: 4
Initiative: 3
Command: 4
Cavalry: 5
Brooke,_J.R. (1838-1926) Pennsylvania native John Rutter Brooke was appointed a captain in the 4th Pennsylvania at the outbreak of the war. Much to his dismay, this regiment marched away from the fighting at 1st Bull Run as its three month enlistment had expired. Four months later he raised his own regiment, the 53rd Pennsylvania and was promoted to colonel. He led this regiment through the Peninsula Campaign and served as a brigade commander at Antietam. He went back to his regiment and fought at Fredericksburg. Again elevated to brigade command, he served at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. At the latter he was wounded in the Wheatfield when his brigade was sent to the relief of the 3rd Corps. His men temporarily stopped the Confederates and stabilized the Union line long enough to prevent a breakthrough. During his recovery he commanded a camp for convalescents in Pennsylvania. Returning to brigade command in time for the Overland Campaign, he was promoted to brigadier general and fought at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania and was wounded during the assault at Cold Harbor. After convalescing for ten months, he was given command of a division in the Shenandoah. Mustered out of the volunteers as a brevet major general in February 1866, he joined the regular army as a lieutenant colonel and served in various frontier assignments. In the Spanish American War he commanded the 1st Corps of the Army. In Puerto Rico he landed in Arroyo with General Hains, and reached Guayama by the time the armistice was signed. In October of 1898 Brooke became military governor of Cuba and Puerto Rico as well as head of the army of occupation. In 1902 he was forced to retire at the age of 64 as a major general. He retired to Philadelphia and was the next to last Union general to pass away (BG Aaron Daggett).
Leadership: 5
Tactical: 4
Initiative: 5
Command: 5
Cavalry: 0
Brooks,_W.T. (1821-1870) Ohio native Brigadier General William Thomas Harbaugh Brooks graduated 46 of 52 from West Point in 1841. Posted to the infantry he saw action in the Seminole War. He earned two brevets for his actions during the Mexican War in which he saw significant action. Staying in the regular army and serving on the frontier, he was a captain in the 3rd Infantry at the outbreak of the Civil War. Appointed a brigadier general in September 1861 he took command of a brigade in the Army of the Potomac. He led his brigade at Yorktown and was wounded during the Seven Days at Savage Station. He fought at South Mountain and was again wounded at Antietam. After leading a division at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, he was promoted to major general. During Lee’s invasion of Pennsylvania he was placed in command of the Monongahela Department stretching in to Ohio and West Virginia. In April 1864 he was demoted to brigadier general apparently for having sent a letter to Washington complaining of how Burnside was directing the army following the Battle of Fredericksburg. He served as division and later corps commander in the Army of the James seeing action at Drewry’s Bluff, Bermuda Hundred and Cold Harbor. During the Siege of Petersburg he was forced to resign due to ill health. He retired to Alabama and began farming. He died a much respected citizen by his ex-Confederate neighbors. As a result his grave is decorated with a Confederate emblem.
Leadership: 5
Tactical: 5
Initiative: 4
Command: 4
Cavalry: 0
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