List of brigadier generals in the United States Regular Army before February 2, 1901

This is a complete list of brigadier generals in the United States Regular Army before February 2, 1901. The grade of brigadier general is ordinarily the fourth-highest in the peacetime Army, ranking above colonel and below major general.
The grade of brigadier general was the highest peacetime rank in the Regular Army during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the second-highest for most of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was also rare: until 1901 there were fewer than twenty brigadier generals on active duty at any given time. Even during times of war, the number of Regular Army brigadier generals remained relatively constant, because rather than expand the permanent military establishment to meet transient wartime requirements, the Regular Army served as a cadre for a much larger temporary force of volunteers and conscripts. Many famous generals of the American Civil War held high rank only in the volunteer service, and reverted to much lower permanent grades in the Regular Army when the volunteers were disbanded after the war.
The number of Regular Army brigadier generals increased dramatically when the Army was reorganized after the Spanish–American War. In addition to increasing the number of brigadier generals of the line from six to fifteen, the Army instituted a practice of funneling a succession of senior colonels through each vacancy in the grade of brigadier general, each officer in turn being promoted and retired at the higher rank and retired pay after only one day in grade. The reorganization took effect on February 2, 1901.

Taxonomy

Historically, the United States Army included two components: the permanently established Regular Army, which constituted the peacetime force; and, during time of war, a much larger non-permanent establishment comprising various volunteer, conscript, and federalized state forces.
There were two types of brigadier generals in the Regular Army:

A brigadier general of the line was an officer who was commissioned in the permanent grade of brigadier general and therefore maintained that personal rank regardless of assignment.
A brigadier general of the staff was an officer who held the ex officio rank of brigadier general only while occupying an office designated by statute to carry that rank.

Brigadier generals in the non-permanent or non-federal establishments included the following:

A brigadier general of militia was appointed or elected to that rank in one of the state militia forces.
A brigadier general of levies was appointed to that rank in the federal volunteer forces raised during the Northwest Indian War.
A brigadier general of volunteers was appointed to that rank in the United States Volunteers during the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, or the Spanish–American War.
A brigadier general of state volunteers was appointed to that rank in one of the non-federal volunteer forces raised by individual states during the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, or the Spanish–American War.
A brigadier general in the Provisional Army was appointed to that rank in the non-permanent Regular Army augmentation force authorized during the Quasi-War by the Act of May 28, 1798.
A brigadier general in the Eventual Army was appointed to that rank in the non-permanent Regular Army augmentation force authorized during the Quasi-War by the Act of March 2, 1799.

Brigadier generals in other establishments included the following:

A brigadier general in the Continental Army was appointed to that rank in the United States Army's predecessor organization during the American Revolution.
A brigadier general in the Army of the Confederate States of America was the Confederate States Army equivalent of a Regular Army brigadier general during the Civil War.
A brigadier general in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States was the Confederate States Army equivalent of a brigadier general of volunteers during the Civil War.

In addition, honorary brevet ranks of brigadier general were conferred in several organizations:

A brevet brigadier general was awarded that brevet rank in the Regular Army, typically for actions in the War of 1812, the Mexican War, or the Civil War.
A brevet brigadier general of volunteers was awarded that brevet rank in the United States Volunteers, typically for actions in the Civil War or the Spanish–American War.
A brevet brigadier general of militia was awarded that brevet rank in one of the state militia forces.
List of brigadier generals before February 2, 1901

The following list of brigadier generals includes all officers appointed to that rank in the line or staff of the United States Regular Army prior to February 2, 1901. It does not include officers who held that rank solely by brevet or in the non-permanent or non-federal establishments, such as brigadier generals of militia or volunteers.
Entries are indexed by the numerical order in which each officer was appointed to that rank while on active duty, or by an asterisk if the officer did not serve in that rank while on active duty. Each entry lists the officer's name; date of rank; date the officer vacated the active-duty rank; number of years on active duty as brigadier general ; and other biographical notes.

	Name	Date of rank	Date vacated	Yrs	Notes
					Promoted to major general, 2 Mar 1813. Continental Army brevet brigadier general, 6 Nov 1777–6 Mar 1778; brigadier general of Pennsylvania militia, 1782–1784.
					Major general of Massachusetts militia, 1786–1796.
					Continental Army brigadier general, 7 Jan 1783–3 Nov 1783.
					Major general of Kentucky militia, 1809–1810.
					Brigadier general of South Carolina militia, 1794.
					Adjutant General.
					Promoted to major general, 2 Mar 1813.
					Brigadier general of New York militia, 26 Mar 1781, and major general, 8 Oct 1793. Died in office.
					Brigadier general of New Jersey militia, 1794.
10					Brigadier general of North Carolina militia, 1788; of Tennessee militia, 1796.
11					Quartermaster General. Promoted to major general, 2 Mar 1813.
12					Dismissed.
13
14					Brigadier general detailed as Adjutant General, 6 Jul 1812–12 Mar 1813.
15
16					Inspector General. Legislated out.
17					Major general of Massachusetts militia, Feb 1812–Nov 1812.
18					Promoted to major general, 2 Mar 1813. Brevet major general of Kentucky militia, 20 Aug 1812–31 Aug 1812. Awarded Thanks of Congress, 1818.
19
20					Adjutant and Inspector General. Killed in action at Battle of York.
21
22					Promoted to major general, 24 Jan 1814.
23					Brigadier general detailed as Adjutant and Inspector General, 19 May 1814–2 Jul 1814.
24					Major general of Ohio militia, 20 Feb 1808.
25					Major general of Ohio militia, Dec 1812.
26					Died in office.
27					Quartermaster General.
28
29					Promoted to major general, 24 Jan 1814. Brigadier general of New York volunteers, 12 Jun 1813–19 Jul 1813. Awarded Thanks of Congress and Congressional Gold Medal, 1814.
30					Mortally wounded at Battle of Crysler's Farm.
31					Promoted to major general, 24 May 1828. Brevet major general, 11 Sep 1814. Awarded Thanks of Congress and Congressional Gold Medal, 1814.
32					Brevet brigadier general, 14 Jan 1814.
33					Brevet brigadier general, 9 Mar 1814.
34					Brevet major general, 15 Aug 1814. Awarded Thanks of Congress and Congressional Gold Medal, 1814. Died in office.
35					Promoted to major general, 25 Jun 1841. Brevet major general, 25 Jul 1814; brevet lieutenant general, 29 Mar 1847.
36					Brevet major general, 25 Jul 1814. Awarded Thanks of Congress and Congressional Gold Medal, 1814.
37					Promoted to major general, 1 May 1814. Major general of Tennessee militia, 1 Apr 1803–30 May 1814; major general of volunteers, 10 Dec 1812–30 May 1814. Awarded Thanks of Congress and Congressional Gold Medal, 1815.
38					Adjutant and Inspector General.
39					Quartermaster General. Brevet major general, 8 May 1828. Died in office.
40					Brevet brigadier general, 13 May 1820.
41					Promoted to major general, 16 May 1862. Brevet brigadier general, 29 Apr 1826; brevet major general, 23 Feb 1847. Awarded Thanks of Congress and Congressional Sword, 1854.
42					Confederate States Provisional Army major general, 22 May 1861–15 Jul 1862. Brevet brigadier general, 30 Jun 1846; brevet major general, 23 Sep 1846. Awarded Congressional Sword, 1847. Dismissed.
43					Brevet major general, 6 Dec 1846. Died in office.
44
45					Major general of Pennsylvania volunteers, 19 Apr 1861–19 Jul 1861; major general of volunteers, 25 Apr 1862–5 Jul 1865. Brevet major general, 13 Sep 1847.
46					Died in office.
47					Brigadier general of Louisiana volunteers, 15 May 1846. Brevet brigadier general, 23 Sep 1846; brevet major general, 20 Aug 1847. Died in office.
48					Brevet brigadier general, 18 Apr 1847; brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
49					Quartermaster General. Major general of Virginia militia, 23 Apr 1861–27 Apr 1861; Provisional Army of Virginia major general, 27 Apr 1861–4 May 1861, and brigadier general, 4 May 1861–14 May 1861; Confederate States Army brigadier general, 14 May 1861–4 Jul 1861, and general, 4 Jul 1861–2 May 1865.
50					Major general of volunteers, 4 Jul 1862–21 Mar 1863. Brevet major general, 31 May 1862. Died in office.
51					Major general of volunteers, 18 Jul 1862–18 Sep 1862. Brevet brigadier general, 6 May 1861. Mortally wounded at Battle of Antietam.
52					Promoted to major general, 25 Nov 1872. Major general of volunteers, 14 Mar 1862–1 Sep 1866. Brevet major general, 14 Mar 1865.
53					Brevet major general, 3 Feb 1865.
54					Quartermaster General. Brevet major general, 5 Jul 1864.
55					Major general of volunteers, 21 Mar 1862–15 Jan 1866. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Awarded Thanks of Congress, 1863.
56					Adjutant General. Brevet brigadier general, 7 May 1861; brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
57					Chief of Ordnance. Brevet brigadier general, 4 Jul 1861; brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
58					Brigadier general of volunteers, 12 Nov 1861–28 Nov 1861. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
*					Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
59					Surgeon General. Dismissed.
60					Promoted to major general, 26 Oct 1882. Brigadier general of volunteers, 17 May 1861–21 Mar 1862; major general of volunteers, 21 Mar 1862–1 Sep 1866. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
61					Retired as major general, 15 Oct 1868. Brigadier general of volunteers, 17 May 1861–5 May 1862; major general of volunteers, 5 May 1862–1 Sep 1866. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Awarded Thanks of Congress, 1864.
62					Commissary General of Subsistence. Died in office.
63					Chief of Engineers. Brevet brigadier general, 28 Mar 1847; brevet major general, 21 Apr 1864. Died in office.
64					Promoted to major general, 18 Aug 1864. Brigadier general of volunteers, 31 Aug 1861–29 Nov 1862; major general of volunteers, 29 Nov 1862–18 Aug 1864. Awarded Thanks of Congress, 1864 and 1865.
65					Promoted to major general, 12 Aug 1864; to lieutenant general, 25 Jul 1866; to general, 4 Mar 1869. Brigadier general of volunteers, 17 May 1861–1 May 1862; major general of volunteers, 1 May 1862–12 Aug 1864. Awarded Thanks of Congress, 1864.
66					Brigadier general of volunteers, 15 May 1862–8 Oct 1862; major general of volunteers, 8 Oct 1862–22 Jul 1864. Killed in action at Battle of Atlanta.
67					Chief of Ordnance. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
68					Promoted to major general, 15 Dec 1864. Brigadier general of volunteers, 3 Aug 1861–25 Apr 1862; major general of volunteers, 25 Apr 1862–15 Dec 1864. Awarded Thanks of Congress, 1865.
69					Provost Marshal General. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
70					Chief of Engineers. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
71					Judge Advocate General.
72					Commissary General of Subsistence. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Died in office.
73					Promoted to major general, 26 Jul 1866. Brigadier general of volunteers, 23 Sep 1861–29 Nov 1862; major general of volunteers, 29 Nov 1862–26 Jul 1866. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Awarded Thanks of Congress, 1866.
74					Surgeon General. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
75					Chief of Ordnance. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Died in office.
76					Promoted to major general, 8 Nov 1864; to lieutenant general, 4 Mar 1869; to general, 1 Jun 1888. Brigadier general of volunteers, 1 Jul 1862–31 Dec 1862; major general of volunteers, 31 Dec 1862–8 Nov 1864. Awarded Thanks of Congress, 1865.
77					Promoted to major general, 4 Mar 1869; to lieutenant general, 8 Feb 1895. Brigadier general of volunteers, 21 Nov 1861–29 Nov 1862 and 4 Mar 1863–12 May 1863; major general of volunteers, 29 Nov 1862–4 Mar 1863 and 12 May 1863–1 Sep 1866. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1861.
78					Promoted to major general, 19 Mar 1886. Brigadier general of volunteers, 3 Sep 1861–29 Nov 1862; major general of volunteers, 29 Nov 1862–1 Jan 1869. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1862; Thanks of Congress, 1864.
79					Promoted to major general, 3 Mar 1886. Brigadier general of volunteers, 25 Apr 1862–20 Apr 1865; major general of volunteers, 20 Apr 1865–1 Sep 1866. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 26 Aug 1864. Awarded Thanks of Congress, 1865.
*					Brigadier general of volunteers, 5 Sep 1862–4 Mar 1863 and 18 Apr 1863–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general, 23 Feb 1865.
80					Chief of Staff to the Lieutenant General, 3 Mar 1865–25 Jul 1866; to the General, 26 Jul 1866–12 Mar 1869. Brigadier general of volunteers, 11 Aug 1863–3 Mar 1865. Brevet major general, 9 Apr 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 24 Feb 1865.
81					Promoted to major general on the retired list, 28 Jan 1881. Brigadier general of volunteers, 14 Sep 1861–2 May 1862; major general of volunteers, 2 May 1862–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
82					Brigadier general of volunteers, 31 Mar 1862–7 May 1864; major general of volunteers, 7 May 1864–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Killed on duty.
83					Paymaster General. Brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
84					Chief of Engineers. Brigadier general of volunteers, 28 Apr 1862–8 Jul 1863; major general of volunteers, 8 Jul 1863–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
*					Brigadier general of volunteers, 10 May 1864–9 Nov 1865; major general of volunteers, 9 Nov 1865–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
85					Brigadier general of volunteers, 1 Oct 1861–8 Oct 1862; major general of volunteers, 8 Oct 1862–30 Nov 1865. Brevet major general, 28 Mar 1867. Died in office.
*					Brigadier general of volunteers, 18 Aug 1864–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general, brevet major general, and brevet major general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865.
*					Brigadier general of volunteers, 11 Oct 1861–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general, brevet major general, and brevet major general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865.
*					Brigadier general of volunteers, 11 Oct 1861–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
86					Adjutant General. Brevet brigadier general, 24 Sep 1864; brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
87					Brigadier general of volunteers, 12 Nov 1861–9 Aug 1862; major general of volunteers, 9 Aug 1862–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
*					Brigadier general of Missouri volunteers, 20 May 1861–14 Aug 1861; brigadier general of volunteers, 29 Nov 1862–24 Aug 1865. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Apr 1865.
*					Brigadier general of volunteers, 21 Jul 1864–30 Apr 1866. Brevet brigadier general, brevet major general, and brevet major general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865.
*					Brigadier general of volunteers, 2 Jul 1864–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
*					Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 31 Jan 1865.
*					Brevet brigadier general, 2 Mar 1867; brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 15 Jun 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 4 Sep 1865.
*					Reduced to colonel on the retired list, 3 Mar 1875. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Apr 1865.
*					Brigadier general of volunteers, 25 Apr 1862–15 Jun 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
88					Promoted to major general, 6 Apr 1888. Brigadier general of volunteers, 7 Sep 1862–21 Oct 1864; major general of volunteers, 21 Oct 1864–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 18 Jul 1864.
89					Commissary General of Subsistence. Brevet brigadier general, 17 Sep 1864; brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Died in office.
90					Chief of Ordnance.
91					Commissary General of Subsistence. Brevet Second Lieutenant, 4th Infantry, 1 July 1850; Second Lieutenant 13 July 1852; First Lieutenant 3 Feb 1855; Captain Commissary of Subsistence, 11 May 1861; Vol. Lieutenant Colonel Commissary of Subsistence 1 Jan 1863 - 3 Sept 1864; Major Commissary of Subsistence, 9 Feb 1863; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel, 13 Mars 1865.
92					Judge Advocate General. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
*					Brigadier general of volunteers, 17 Mar 1862–25 Sep 1865; major general of volunteers, 25 Sep 1865–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
93					Paymaster General. Brigadier general of volunteers, 15 Apr 1862–8 Aug 1865. Brevet brigadier general, 9 Apr 1865.
94					Inspector General. Brigadier general of volunteers, 23 Sep 1861–17 Jul 1862 and 13 Sep 1862–4 Mar 1863. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865.
95					Chief of Engineers. Brigadier general of volunteers, 14 Sep 1861–19 Jul 1862 and 24 Mar 1863–12 May 1864; major general of volunteers, 18 Jul 1862–24 Mar 1863 and 12 May 1864–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
96					Paymaster General. Brevet brigadier general, 15 Oct 1867.
97					Adjutant General. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
98					Chief Signal Officer. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865. Died in office.
99					Chief Signal Officer. Brigadier general of volunteers, 29 Nov 1862–13 Dec 1864; major general of volunteers, 13 Dec 1864–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Died in office.
100					Promoted to major general, 5 Apr 1890; to lieutenant general, 2 Feb 1901. Senior major general of the line commanding the Army with rank of lieutenant general, 6 Jun 1900–2 Feb 1901. Brigadier general of volunteers, 12 May 1864–21 Oct 1865; major general of volunteers, 21 Oct 1865–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 2 Mar 1867; brevet major general of volunteers, 25 Aug 1864. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1863.
101					Inspector General. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Died in office.
102					Judge Advocate General.
103					Quartermaster General. Brigadier general of volunteers, 23 May 1863–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general, 5 Jul 1864; brevet major general and brevet major general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865.
104					Paymaster General.
105					Quartermaster General. Brigadier general of volunteers, 23 May 1863–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general, brevet major general, and brevet major general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865.
106					Surgeon General. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865. Died in office.
107					Brigadier general of volunteers, 19 Oct 1864–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 31 Mar 1865.
108					Quartermaster General. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
109					Surgeon General.
110					Chief of Engineers. Brigadier general of volunteers, 23 Sep 1861–30 Mar 1863 and 18 Apr 1864–31 Jan 1866; major general of volunteers, 30 Mar 1863–18 Apr 1864. Brevet brigadier general, brevet major general, and brevet major general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865.
111					Brigadier general of volunteers, 28 Sep 1861–29 Nov 1862; major general of volunteers, 29 Nov 1862–1 Feb 1866. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1864.
112					Inspector General. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
113					Brigadier general of volunteers, 2 May 1862–7 Jun 1864; major general of volunteers, 7 Jun 1864–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
114					Inspector General. Brigadier general of volunteers, 28 Apr 1862–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 1 Sep 1864. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1864.
115					Promoted to major general, 8 Feb 1895. Brigadier general of volunteers, 29 Nov 1862–1 Sep 1866. Brevet brigadier general, 2 Mar 1867; brevet major general of volunteers, 30 Nov 1864.
116					Brigadier general of volunteers, 1 May 1865–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
117					Chief of Engineers. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
118					Brigadier general of volunteers, 21 Jul 1861–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 2 Mar 1867; brevet major general of volunteers, 1 Aug 1864. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1861.
119					Surgeon General.
120					Chief Signal Officer. Promoted to major general, 10 Feb 1906. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1935.
121					Promoted to major general, 25 Apr 1895. Brigadier general of volunteers, 29 Jun 1863–1 Apr 1865; major general of volunteers, 1 Apr 1865–1 Feb 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 19 Oct 1864.
122					Promoted to major general, 22 May 1897. Brigadier general of volunteers, 12 May 1864–1 Feb 1866. Brevet brigadier general, 2 Mar 1867; brevet major general of volunteers, 1 Aug 1864.
123					Chief of Engineers.
124					Inspector General. Died in office.
125					Inspector General. Promoted to major general, 11 Apr 1903. Major general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–30 Nov 1898.
126					Adjutant General.
127					Paymaster General.
128					Brigadier general of volunteers, 3 Jun 1863–27 May 1865; major general of volunteers, 27 May 1865–30 Apr 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 2 Mar 1867; brevet major general of volunteers, 10 Feb 1865.
129					Quartermaster General. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1863.
130					Commissary General of Subsistence.
131					Promoted to major general, 9 Nov 1894. Brigadier general of volunteers, 3 Sep 1861–17 Jul 1862; major general of volunteers, 17 Jul 1862–21 Oct 1865. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865.
132					Surgeon General. Died in office.
133					Surgeon General.
134					Chief of Ordnance. Died in office.
135					Brigadier general of volunteers, 7 May 1864–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 28 Oct 1864.
136					Promoted to major general, 2 Apr 1897. Brigadier general of volunteers, 29 Nov 1862–30 Apr 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 19 Oct 1864.
137					Adjutant General. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
138					Brigadier general of volunteers, 7 Mar 1862–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 11 Mar 1865. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1862.
139					Commissary General of Subsistence. Brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Apr 1863–1 Feb 1866. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 30 Jun 1865.
140					Brigadier general of volunteers, 29 Nov 1862–24 Aug 1865. Brevet brigadier general and brevet major general, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general of volunteers, 19 Mar 1865.
141					Surgeon General.
142					Adjutant General. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
143					Promoted to major general, 16 Jun 1900. Major general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–16 Jun 1900. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865; brevet major general, 4 Feb 1899.
144					Commissary General of Subsistence. Brevet brigadier general, 9 Apr 1865.
145					Promoted to major general, 11 May 1897. Brigadier general of volunteers, 19 May 1865–15 Jan 1866. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 19 Oct 1864; brevet brigadier general, 9 Apr 1865.
146					Judge Advocate General.
147					Paymaster General.
148					Promoted to major general, 14 May 1897. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1862.
149					Major general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–31 Oct 1898.
150					Chief of Engineers.
151					Quartermaster General. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
152					Commissary General of Subsistence.
153					Chief of Engineers. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1862.
154					Quartermaster General.
155					Promoted to major general on the retired list, 1 Jul 1901. Major general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–30 Jun 1901. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1862.
156					Promoted to major general on the retired list, 4 Mar 1915. Major general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–30 Nov 1898. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
157					Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865.
158					Promoted to major general, 13 Apr 1903. Major general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–12 Jun 1899. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Feb 1865.
159
160
161					Promoted to major general on the retired list, 19 Feb 1903. Major general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–24 Feb 1899. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1865.
162					Adjutant General. Brevet brigadier general, 13 Mar 1865.
163					Commissary General of Subsistence.
164					Commissary General of Subsistence.
165					Quartermaster General. Promoted to major general, 12 Apr 1903. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865.
166					Adjutant General with rank of brigadier general, 25 Feb 1898–6 Jun 1900; with rank of major general, 6 Jun 1900–15 Apr 1906. Promoted to lieutenant general, 15 Apr 1906. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865.
167					Commissary General of Subsistence.
168					Commissary General of Subsistence.
169					Brigadier general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–8 Jul 1898; major general of volunteers, 8 Jul 1898–30 Nov 1898.
170					Promoted to major general on the retired list, 4 Mar 1915. Brigadier general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–8 Jul 1898; major general of volunteers, 8 Jul 1898–30 Nov 1898.
171					Brigadier general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–7 Dec 1898; major general of volunteers, 7 Dec 1898–12 Jun 1899. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 28 Oct 1864; brevet brigadier general, 27 Feb 1890. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1864. Died in office.
172					Brigadier general of volunteers, 12 Jul 1898–30 Oct 1898.
173					Brigadier general of volunteers, 21 Sep 1898–30 Nov 1898. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Mar 1865. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1861.
174					Brigadier general of volunteers, 21 Sep 1898–30 Nov 1898. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1864.
175					Paymaster General.
176
177					Brigadier general of volunteers, 27 May 1898–28 Feb 1899.
178					Chief of Records and Pension Office, 2 Mar 1899–23 Apr 1904; Military Secretary with rank of major general, 23 Apr 1904–5 Mar 1907; The Adjutant General with rank of major general, 5 Mar 1907–16 Feb 1912.
179					Brigadier general of volunteers, 27 May 1898–24 Feb 1899. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 28 Mar 1865.
180					Brigadier general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–13 Aug 1898; major general of volunteers, 13 Aug 1898–12 Jun 1899.
181					Chief of Ordnance.
182					Paymaster General. Promoted to major general, 21 Jan 1904. Brigadier general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–31 Oct 1898.
183					Promoted to major general on the retired list, 29 Aug 1916. Brigadier general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–12 Apr 1899. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 15 Jul 1865.
184					Brigadier general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–12 May 1899.
185					Brigadier general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–12 Jun 1899. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1868.
186					Brigadier general of volunteers, 13 Aug 1898–17 Apr 1899 and 17 Apr 1899–20 Oct 1899.
187					Awarded Medal of Honor, 1862.
188					Brigadier general of volunteers, 21 Sep 1898–12 May 1899.
189					Brigadier general of volunteers, 1 Oct 1898–24 Feb 1899.
190					Promoted to major general, 2 Feb 1901; to lieutenant general, 8 Aug 1903. Brigadier general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–8 Jul 1898 and 13 Apr 1899–10 Jan 1900; major general of volunteers, 8 Jul 1898–13 Apr 1899. Brevet brigadier general of volunteers, 9 Apr 1865.
191					Promoted to major general, 5 Feb 1901; to lieutenant general, 15 Sep 1906. Brigadier general of volunteers, 27 May 1898–13 Aug 1898; major general of volunteers, 13 Aug 1898–18 Feb 1901. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1863.
192					Brigadier general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–7 Sep 1898 and 13 Apr 1899–21 Jan 1900; major general of volunteers, 7 Sep 1898–13 Apr 1899. Died in office.
193					Confederate States Provisional Army brigadier general, 30 Oct 1862–20 Jan 1863, and major general, 20 Jan 1863–8 Jun 1865; major general of volunteers, 4 May 1898–12 Apr 1899; brigadier general of volunteers, 12 Apr 1899–16 Jun 1900.
194					Commissary General of Subsistence. Promoted to major general, 8 Oct 1905. Brigadier general of volunteers, 21 Sep 1898–24 Mar 1899. Awarded Medal of Honor, 1865.
195					Awarded Medal of Honor, 1862.

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EasyTimeline does not support dd/mm/yyyy format before the year
1800, so the following hacks are required:
1) All dates are incremented by 100 years.
2) Instead of using ScaleMajor to create the timescale at the
bottom of the plot, we implement the year labels and tick
lines manually. This also lets us create a duplicate
timescale at the top of the plot.

DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy
Period = from:01/01/1890 till:01/01/2015
TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal

ScaleMajor is required and there is no way to prevent it from
writing at least one year label, so we
minimize the damage by allowing it to write an incorrect year
that can be mostly masked when overwritten by a correct year
.

ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:1000 start:01/01/1900

Uncomment the following ScaleMajor line to check the alignment
of manual ticks and year labels with the automatically placed
ScaleMajor ticks and labels.
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:01/01/1890
Manually hardcoded positions of timescale labels and tick lines.

Define $lefttime = 20
Define $righttime = 670
Define $toptime = 1540
Define $toptimetick = 1545
Define $toptimetext = 1550
Define $bottomtime = 50
Define $bottomtimetick = 45
Define $bottomtimetext = 31
Define $time1790 = 8
Define $tick1790 = 20
Define $time1800 = 60
Define $tick1800 = 72
Define $time1810 = 112
Define $tick1810 = 124
Define $time1820 = 163
Define $tick1820 = 175
Define $time1830 = 216
Define $tick1830 = 228
Define $time1840 = 268
Define $tick1840 = 280
Define $time1850 = 320
Define $tick1850 = 332
Define $time1860 = 372
Define $tick1860 = 384
Define $time1870 = 424
Define $tick1870 = 436
Define $time1880 = 476
Define $tick1880 = 488
Define $time1890 = 528
Define $tick1890 = 540
Define $time1900 = 579
Define $tick1900 = 592
Define $time1910 = 631
Define $tick1910 = 644
Define $topY = 1500
Define $topYtext1 = 1505
Define $topYtext2 = 1520
Define $rightX = 730
Define $rightXtext = 735
Define $briggen1top = 988
Define $briggen1 = 888
Define $briggen2top = 878
Define $briggen2 = 768
Define $briggen3top = 678
Define $briggen3 = 549
Define $briggen4top = 489
Define $briggen4 = 330
Define $briggen5top = 290
Define $briggen5 = 251
Define $briggen6top = 240
Define $briggen6 = 91
Define $now = 01/02/2001
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at:25/04/1946
at:02/02/1948
at:12/04/1961
at:09/04/1965
at:25/04/1998
at:12/08/1998
at:04/02/1999

Top and bottom timescale tick lines.

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points:

points:

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Top and bottom timescale year labels.

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pos: text:1880
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pos: text:1910
fontsize:9
pos: text:^Northwest Indian War
pos: text:^Quasi-War
pos: text:^War of 1812
pos: text:^Mexican War
pos: text:^Civil War
pos: text:^Spanish–American War
pos: text:^Philippine–American War
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pos: text:brig.gen. 2
pos: text:brig.gen. 3
pos: text:brig.gen. 4
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bar:bloomfield from: 27/03/1912 till: 15/06/1915 color:bg text:"Joseph Bloomfield"
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bar:cushing from: 06/07/1912 till: 12/03/1913 color:bgstaff
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bar:harrison from: 02/03/1913 till: 31/05/1914 color:mg text:"William Henry Harrison"
bar:boyd from: 26/08/1912 till: 15/06/1915 color:bg text:"John P. Boyd"
bar:parkerthomas from: 12/03/1913 till: 01/03/1914 color:bg text:"Thomas Parker"
bar:izard from: 12/03/1913 till: 24/01/1914 color:bg
bar:izard from: 24/01/1914 till: 15/06/1915 color:mg text:"George Izard"
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bar:winder from: 19/05/1914 till: 02/07/1914 color:bgstaff
bar:winder from: 02/07/1914 till: 15/06/1915 color:bg text:"William H. Winder"
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bar:howardbenjamin from: 12/03/1913 till: 18/09/1914 color:bg text:"Benjamin Howard"
bar:williams from: 09/07/1913 till: 06/04/1914 color:bg text:"David R. Williams"
bar:brownjacob from: 19/07/1913 till: 24/01/1914 color:bg
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bar:macomb from: 24/01/1914 till: 01/06/1921 color:bg
bar:macomb from: 24/05/1928 till: 25/06/1941 color:mg text:"Alexander Macomb"
bar:smiththomas from: 24/01/1914 till: 17/05/1915 color:bg text:"Thomas A. Smith"
bar:bissell from: 09/03/1914 till: 17/05/1915 color:bg text:"Daniel Bissell"
bar:gaines from: 09/03/1914 till: 06/06/1949 color:bg text:"Edmund P. Gaines"
bar:scott from: 09/03/1914 till: 25/06/1941 color:bg
bar:scott from: 25/06/1941 till: 29/03/1947 color:mg
bar:scott from: 29/03/1947 till: 01/11/1961 color:ltgb text:"Winfield Scott"
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bar:jackson from: 10/12/1912 till: 30/05/1914 color:mgv
bar:jackson from: 19/04/1914 till: 01/05/1914 color:bg
bar:jackson from: 31/05/1914 till: 01/06/1921 color:mg text:"Andrew Jackson"
bar:atkinson from: 13/05/1920 till: 01/06/1921 color:bg text:"Henry Atkinson"
bar:wool from: 25/06/1941 till: 16/05/1962 color:bg
bar:wool from: 16/05/1962 till: 01/08/1963 color:mg text:"John E. Wool"
bar:twiggs from: 30/06/1946 till: 01/03/1961 color:bg
bar:twiggs from: 22/05/1961 till: 15/07/1962 color:bgpacs text:"David E. Twiggs"
bar:kearny from: 30/06/1946 till: 31/10/1948 color:bg text:"Stephen W. Kearny"
bar:pierce from: 03/03/1947 till: 20/03/1948 color:bg text:"Franklin Pierce"
bar:cadwalader from: 03/03/1947 till: 20/07/1948 color:bg
bar:cadwalader from: 25/04/1962 till: 05/07/1965 color:mgv text:"George Cadwalader"
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bar:cooke from: 12/11/1961 till: 29/10/1973 color:bg text:"Philip S. G. Cooke"
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bar:pope from: 14/07/1962 till: 26/10/1982 color:bg
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bar:merritt from: 01/04/1965 till: 01/02/1966 color:mgv
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bar:brooke from: 22/05/1997 till: $now color:mg text:"John R. Brooke"
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bar:grierson from: 27/05/1965 till: 30/04/1966 color:mgv
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bar:mccook from: 17/07/1962 till: 21/10/1965 color:mgv
bar:mccook from: 11/07/1990 till: 09/11/1994 color:bg
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bar:wade from: 26/05/1997 till: $now color:bg text:"James F. Wade"
bar:mills from: 16/06/1997 till: 22/06/1997 color:bg text:"Anson Mills"
bar:carlton from: 28/06/1997 till: 30/06/1997 color:bg text:"Caleb H. Carlton"
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Staff

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History

Northwest Indian War

For the first two years of its existence, the United States Army was so small that its highest-ranking officer was a lieutenant colonel, Josiah Harmar, who, as the Army's senior officer, held the rank of brigadier general only by brevet. The substantive grades of major general and brigadier general were created in 1791 when the Army was expanded to fight the Northwest Indian War; a major general was immediately appointed to supersede Harmar, in whom confidence had been lost following his defeat the year before, but the brigadier general grade remained vacant until Harmar resigned in early 1792, whereupon the Army's only other lieutenant colonel, James Wilkinson, became its first substantive brigadier general.
In response to its early setbacks the Army was reorganized as the Legion of the United States, merging its separate infantry, cavalry, and artillery regiments into four combined-arms sub-legions. To entice former Continental Army generals to command the sub-legions, Congress authorized four additional brigadier generalcies, but so many candidates declined these appointments that the sub-legions had to be commanded by lieutenant colonels instead. The additional brigadier generalcies expired along with the grade of major general when the Army reconstituted its regiments after the war, leaving Wilkinson as the Army's senior officer and sole brigadier general.

Quasi-War

In July 1798 the Quasi-War with France induced Congress to augment the Regular Army by raising a Provisional Army for the duration of the conflict. In addition to the general officers commissioned in the Provisional Army, the Regular Army was authorized three more brigadier generals of the line and an Adjutant General with the ex officio rank of brigadier general. John Brooks, William Washington, and Jonathan Dayton were appointed brigadier generals of the line and William North was appointed Adjutant General, but only Washington and North accepted their commissions. Both were discharged when Congress disbanded the Provisional Army in June 1800, again leaving Wilkinson as the only brigadier general.

War of 1812

Tensions arising from the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair led Congress to triple the authorized strength of the Army in 1808, for a total of three brigadier generals: Wilkinson, Wade Hampton, and Peter Gansevoort. Four years later, with the War of 1812 looming, Congress authorized a massive expansion of the military establishment, led by two major generals; five more brigadier generals of the line; and an adjutant general, an inspector general, and a quartermaster general with ex officio ranks of brigadier general. Dubbed "cabinet generals," the initial cohort of general officers were selected based on mostly political criteria, and their disastrous performance early in the war led them to be phased out in favor of proven "fighting generals" like Andrew Jackson, Jacob J. Brown, and Winfield Scott.
After the war the Army reverted to a much smaller peacetime establishment. Of the fifteen brigadier generals in the Army at the beginning of 1815, only five were retained in grade: Alexander Macomb, Edmund P. Gaines, Winfield Scott, Eleazar W. Ripley, and Adjutant and Inspector General Daniel Parker. The remaining ten either resigned, were discharged as surplus in grade, or were retained in the Army at the grade of colonel. In 1821 another round of Army cuts reduced Macomb, Parker, and Henry T. Atkinson to colonel, leaving Gaines, Scott, and Quartermaster General Thomas S. Jesup as the Army's only brigadier generals. Gaines, Scott, and Jesup would monopolize the rank for a generation, spending a combined total of 104 years as brigadier generals. Jesup, appointed Quartermaster General at the age of 30, would serve a record 42 years as brigadier general, finally dying in office on the eve of the Civil War. Scott was promoted to major general in 1841 and was succeeded by Inspector General John E. Wool, the first promotion to brigadier general in over twenty years.

Mexican War

The Mexican War triggered a temporary increase in the number of general officers. In 1846 Congress authorized two additional brigadier generals on the condition that they be discharged immediately upon the ratification of a peace treaty; career Regular Army officers David E. Twiggs and Stephen W. Kearny were promoted to the new grades. The next year, three more wartime grades were authorized; Franklin Pierce, George Cadwalader, and Enos D. Hopping were appointed directly from civilian life. Hopping died a few months after his appointment, and the two remaining civilian generals were duly discharged at the end of the war, but Congress allowed Twiggs and Kearny to remain in grade while normal attrition reduced the number of brigadier generals to the desired peacetime total. Gaines and Kearny died within a year, leaving Wool and Twiggs as the two brigadier generals of the line authorized by statute.
In 1855 Congress increased the Army by four regiments and added a third brigadier generalcy of the line, which it intended for Illinois Senator James Shields, a former brigadier general of volunteers during the Mexican War who had just been defeated for reelection to the Senate. However, Scott, the Army's only major general, was almost seventy years old and likely to be succeeded by a brigadier general of the line. Since Wool and Twiggs were around the same age as Scott, the person appointed to the third brigadier generalcy could reasonably expect to become the next commanding general of the Army. Rather than vault the civilian Shields to potential command of the professional Army in a single bound, the administration instead promoted Colonel Persifor F. Smith, a distinguished career officer. Ironically, Wool and Twiggs both outlived Smith, who died unexpectedly in 1858 and was succeeded by Colonel William S. Harney.
In the end, none of the Army's prewar generals would retain high command in the United States Army during the Civil War. Of the five general officers in the Regular Army at the outbreak of hostilities, Scott retired almost immediately, Wool and Harney were sidelined and retired midway through the war, Twiggs was dismissed for treason after surrendering the garrison in Texas, and Quartermaster General Joseph E. Johnston resigned to join the Confederate States Army.

Civil War

During the Civil War Congress augmented the permanent Regular Army with a massive temporary force of volunteers and conscripts. The overwhelming majority of Civil War brigadier generals were appointed to that grade only in the volunteer service, so hundreds of wartime generals lost their ranks when the volunteers were disbanded after the war.
Early wartime vacancies in the Regular Army grade of brigadier general were filled on the basis of prewar experience or anticipated brilliance, and included Colonels Edwin V. Sumner and Philip S. G. Cooke, Inspector General Joseph K. F. Mansfield, and Major Robert Anderson, all senior stalwarts of the peacetime Army; plus two relative newcomers, Brevet Assistant Adjutant General Irvin McDowell and former First Lieutenant William S. Rosecrans. By mid-1862 permanent Regular Army brigadier generalcies were being dangled as rewards for particularly successful volunteer generals, many of whom had been civilians or very junior Regular officers before the war; these later appointments went to Colonels William T. Sherman and George H. Thomas; Major Winfield S. Hancock; Captains John Pope, George G. Meade, James B. McPherson, Philip H. Sheridan, and John M. Schofield; former Captain Joseph Hooker; and First Lieutenant Oliver O. Howard — all major generals of volunteers — and civilian Alfred H. Terry, a brigadier general of volunteers.
Most of the Army's wartime bureau chiefs were eventually elevated to the ex officio rank of brigadier general, including the Adjutant General, the Chief of Ordnance, the Surgeon General, the Commissary General of Subsistence, the Chief of Engineers, and the Judge Advocate General. In 1864 James B. Fry was appointed Provost Marshal General with the rank of brigadier general to administer the non-Regular volunteers and draftees; unique among ex officio general officers of this era, Fry lost his rank when his office was abolished after the volunteers were disbanded in 1866. In 1865 Congress established the office of Chief of Staff to the Lieutenant General with ex officio rank of brigadier general as a mechanism to transfer Brigadier General of Volunteers John A. Rawlins to the Regular Army so that he could continue to serve as Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's principal military assistant after the war; the office terminated when Rawlins became President Grant's first Secretary of War in 1869.
The postwar demobilization of the volunteers reduced most Civil War officers to much lower permanent grades in the Regular Army or to civilian life, so in 1866 Congress tripled the size of the Regular Army to create enough new force structure to reward officers with the grades their wartime service merited. To recognize the many outstanding volunteer officers who had not been professional soldiers before the war, half of the new commissions were reserved for civilian volunteers and the other half for prewar professionals. As a result, many civilian volunteers gained seniority over long-serving Regulars with similar or better records. For example, by 1886 Wesley Merritt stood only eleventh on the list of colonels of the line despite having outranked during the war all ten colonels now senior to him; Merritt was appointed only a lieutenant colonel in 1866, while civilians like Thomas H. Ruger and Orlando B. Willcox were appointed to colonelcies for which Merritt, a Regular officer, was ineligible, and twenty years later Ruger and Willcox were both promoted to brigadier general ahead of him.

Postwar

Promotions in the Regular Army ground almost to a halt in the years following the Civil War, largely due to the glut of Civil War heroes who were rewarded with senior grades at a relatively young age and then camped in those grades for decades; dramatic reductions in the size of the peacetime military establishment squeezed the promotion bottleneck even tighter. Congress cut the number of brigadier generals of the line to eight in 1869 and to six a year later; death, retirement, and murder eventually cleared the path for Lieutenant Colonel George Crook to become a brigadier general of the line in 1873, the only such promotion between 1869 and 1880. Promotions did not resume their normal flow until Congress instituted a mandatory retirement age of sixty-four in 1882.
Famous field grade officers campaigned openly for every vacancy in the grade of brigadier general. The Civil War "boy generals" — Colonels Nelson A. Miles and Ranald S. Mackenzie and Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer — became particularly notorious for their ruthless maneuvers to regain their wartime ranks. Custer was killed in 1876 making his eponymous last stand at the Little Bighorn and Mackenzie was promoted to brigadier general in 1882 but pronounced hopelessly insane two years later and involuntarily retired, but Miles — promoted to brigadier general in 1880 when President Rutherford B. Hayes agreed to accelerate Army promotions by involuntarily retiring Brigadier General Edward O. C. Ord — ascended to command of the entire Army and retired as a lieutenant general.
Political patronage weighed heavily in general officer appointments during this period. In January 1892 Secretary of War Stephen B. Elkins wanted to promote Colonel Eugene A. Carr to a vacant brigadier generalcy, but Elkins' influential predecessor, Vermont Senator Redfield Proctor, lobbied vigorously for Colonel Elwell S. Otis, while Commanding General of the Army John A. Schofield backed Colonel William P. Carlin, Senate Military Affairs Committee Chairman Joseph R. Hawley backed Colonel James W. Forsyth, and President pro tempore of the Senate Charles F. Manderson backed Colonel Frank Wheaton, who ultimately received the appointment in April. When the next vacancy opened in June, Elkins, Proctor, and Schofield agreed that Carr would be promoted but request to retire early so that Carlin could also be promoted and retired in time for Otis to be promoted before the end of President Benjamin Harrison's administration; since Carr had only two years until statutory retirement but Otis had more than a decade, this sequence would prevent the grade from falling vacant during the next four-year presidential term, thereby denying Harrison's successor an opportunity to reward a supporter. However, once promoted, Carr angrily repudiated this arrangement, claiming no one had told him he would have to retire early, so Harrison retired him involuntarily and nominated Otis for immediate promotion, skipping Carlin entirely. Carlin was promoted anyway when Otis agreed to defer his promotion at the behest of the next President, Grover Cleveland, who remembered Carlin fondly from a brief period of shared service early in the Civil War.

Spanish–American War

Congress raised a new force of volunteers to fight the Spanish–American War in 1898, and mustered a second volunteer force a year later for the Philippine–American War. In contrast to previous wars, no additional general officers were authorized in the Regular Army, confining the expansion of the general officer corps entirely to the non-permanent volunteer service. Echoing Civil War practice, volunteer generals were drawn from both Regular officers and civilians, with particularly prominent volunteer generals being rewarded with permanent brigadier generalcies in the Regular Army, including former Confederate major general Joseph Wheeler.
Many of the Army's wartime supply problems were blamed on the unusually rapid turnover of bureau chiefs before and during the war — four Quartermasters General and six Commissaries General of Subsistence in the 30 months before the war — due to a peacetime personnel policy that promoted general officers based on past service rather than future merit. In February 1882 President Chester A. Arthur involuntarily retired sixty-five-year-old Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs in order to give seventy-year-old Assistant Quartermaster General Daniel H. Rucker the chance to be Quartermaster General himself before he died. Rucker served as Quartermaster General for only ten days before being retired at his own request, inaugurating a decades-long tradition of briefly elevating elderly staff officers to the top of their bureau as a reward for long service.
The use of brigadier generalcies as retirement gifts spread to the line in 1886 when Colonel Joseph H. Potter was promoted to brigadier general only six months before his statutory retirement date, signaling a shift in promotion policy to reward distinguished Civil War veterans with higher retired rank and pay. Potter was succeeded by Colonel Orlando B. Willcox, another six-month general who was succeeded on a more permanent basis by Colonel Wesley Merritt. As such generals became more common, their tenure in grade dropped from months to weeks to days, finally hitting bottom in October 1899 when a single vacant brigadier generalcy cycled through five occupants in five days, each officer in turn being promoted one day and retired the next.
The reorganization of the peacetime Army after the Spanish–American War more than doubled the number of brigadier generals of the line, allowing the administration to strike a balance between rewarding aging war heroes who would retire in months or even hours, and elevating more vigorous leaders who could lead the Army for years. By March 1906 the Army's retired list included 115 brigadier generals who had been promoted to that grade on the active list and immediately retired, plus another 101 who had been promoted on the retired list, so Congress called an end to the parade of one-day generals by requiring general officers to serve at least one year in grade before requesting retirement.

Legislative history

The following list of Congressional legislation includes all acts of Congress directly pertaining to appointments to the grade of brigadier general in the Regular Army. It does not include legislation pertaining solely to appointments to that grade in the non-permanent establishment, or by brevet.
Each entry lists an act of Congress, its citation in the United States Statutes at Large, the total number of active-duty brigadier generals authorized subsequent to the act, the subsequent number of active-duty brigadier generals of the line, the subsequent number of active-duty brigadier generals of the staff, and a summary of the act's relevance.

Legislation	Citation	Total	Line	Staff	Summary
Act of March 3, 1791		1	1	0	Authorized one brigadier general.
Act of March 28, 1792		5	5	0	Authorized up to four additional brigadier generals.
Act of May 30, 1796		1	1	0	Established total of one brigadier general.
Act of July 16, 1798		5	4	1	Authorized three additional brigadier generals. Established Adjutant General with rank of brigadier general.
Act of March 16, 1802		1	1	0	Established total of one brigadier general. Abolished Adjutant General.
Act of April 12, 1808		3	3	0	Authorized two additional brigadier generals.
Act of January 11, 1812		10	8	2	Authorized five additional brigadier generals. Established Adjutant General with rank of brigadier general. Established Inspector General with rank of brigadier general.
Act of March 28, 1812		11	8	3	Established Quartermaster General with rank of brigadier general.
Act of July 6, 1812		13	10	3	Authorized two additional brigadier generals.
Act of February 24, 1813		19	16	3	Authorized six additional brigadier generals.
Act of March 3, 1813		18	16	2	Merged Adjutant General and Inspector General into Adjutant and Inspector General with rank of brigadier general.
Act of March 3, 1815		4	4	0	Established total of four brigadier generals. Abolished Adjutant and Inspector General. Abolished Quartermaster General.
Act of April 24, 1816		5	4	1	Established Adjutant and Inspector General with rank of brigadier general.
Act of April 14, 1818		6	4	2	Established Quartermaster General with rank of brigadier general.
Act of March 2, 1821		3	2	1	Established total of two brigadier generals. Split Adjutant and Inspector General into Adjutant General and Inspector General with ranks of colonel.
Act of June 18, 1846		5	4	1	Authorized two additional brigadier generals, to be discharged at the end of the Mexican War.
Act of March 3, 1847		8	7	1	Authorized three additional brigadier generals, to be discharged at the end of the Mexican War.
Act of July 19, 1848		3	2	1	Repealed requirement to immediately discharge the additional brigadier generals authorized by Act of June 18, 1846. Suspended all promotions to general officer until total reduced to one major general and two brigadier generals.
Act of March 3, 1855		4	3	1	Authorized one additional brigadier general.
Act of July 19, 1861		10	9	1	Authorized six additional brigadier generals.
Act of August 3, 1861		12	9	3	Increased rank of Adjutant General to brigadier general. Established Chief of Ordnance with rank of brigadier general. Mandated retirement for disability at full pay for at most seven percent of the authorized officer strength.
Act of April 16, 1862		13	9	4	Increased rank of Surgeon General to brigadier general.
Act of February 9, 1863		14	9	5	Established Commissary General of Subsistence with rank of brigadier general.
Act of March 3, 1863		15	9	6	Established Chief of Engineers with rank of brigadier general.
Act of April 21, 1864		16	9	7	Established Provost Marshal General with rank of brigadier general.
Act of June 20, 1864		17	9	8	Established Judge Advocate General with rank of brigadier general.
Act of March 3, 1865		18	9	9	Established Chief of Staff to the Lieutenant General with rank of brigadier general.
Act of July 25, 1866		18	9	9	Retitled Chief of Staff to the Lieutenant General as Chief of Staff to the General.
Act of July 28, 1866		19	10	9	Established total of ten brigadier generals. Established Paymaster General with rank of brigadier general. Abolished Provost Marshal General. Authorized retirement for disability due to wounds received in battle at full rank of command held when wounded.
Act of March 3, 1869		17	8	9	Established total of eight brigadier generals. Suspended promotions to brigadier general until total reduced below eight.
Act of April 3, 1869		16	8	8	Abolished Chief of Staff to the General.
Joint Resolution No. 35 of April 12, 1870		16	8	8	Increased retired pay of Gabriel R. Paul to the full pay of a brigadier general.
Act of July 15, 1870		14	6	8	Established total of six brigadier generals. Suspended promotions to brigadier general until total reduced below six.
Act of June 4, 1872		13	6	7	Reduced rank of Paymaster General to colonel.
		13	6	7	Authorized promotion of Samuel W. Crawford to brigadier general on the retired list. Reduced retired rank of officers disabled by wounds received in battle to actual rank held when wounded.
Act of June 26, 1876		13	6	7	Authorized retirement of William H. Emory as brigadier general.
Act of July 10, 1876		13	6	7	Increased retired pay of Clement A. Finley to that of a Surgeon General with rank of brigadier general.
Act of July 22, 1876		14	6	8	Increased rank of Paymaster General to brigadier general.
Act of March 15, 1878		14	6	8	Restored William A. Hammond to retired list as brigadier general without pay.
Act of December 12, 1878		15	6	9	Increased rank of Inspector General to brigadier general.
Act of June 16, 1880		16	6	10	Increased rank of Chief Signal Officer to brigadier general.
Act of January 28, 1881		16	6	10	Authorized promotion of Edward O. C. Ord to major general on the retired list.
Act of June 30, 1882		16	6	10	Mandated retirement at sixty-four years of age. Authorized retirement after forty years of service as an officer or soldier in the regular or volunteer service.
Act of February 27, 1889		17	7	10	Temporarily authorized one additional brigadier general for the purpose of appointing William S. Rosecrans to be retired in that grade.
Act of March 2, 1899		17	6	11	Temporarily increased rank of Chief of Records and Pension Office to brigadier general for term of present incumbent.
Act of June 6, 1900		16	6	10	Temporarily increased rank of Adjutant General to major general for term of present incumbent.
Act of February 2, 1901		25	15	10	Established total of fifteen brigadier generals of the line. Authorized two brigadier generals of volunteers to be appointed brigadier generals on the retired list.

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