1. In 1861, George Stoneman was promoted to Brigadier General, and was later put in command of the Army of the Potomac's 3rd Infantry Corps, and subsequently the newly created cavalry corps.
41 Facts About George Stoneman
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At the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863, under the command of Joseph Hooker, George Stoneman failed in an ambitious attempt to penetrate behind enemy lines, getting bogged down at an important river crossing.
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Shortly after the end of the American Civil War, George Stoneman commanded occupying troops at Memphis, Tennessee, who were stationed at Fort Pickering.
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George Stoneman had turned over control of law enforcement to the civilian government by May 1866, when the Memphis riots broke out and the major black neighborhoods were destroyed.
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George Stoneman later moved out to California, where he had an estate in the San Gabriel Valley.
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George Stoneman was elected as governor of California, serving between 1883 and 1887.
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George Stoneman was born on a family farm in Busti, New York, the first child of ten.
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George Stoneman studied at the Jamestown Academy and entered the United States Military Academy in 1842; his roommate at West Point was future Confederate General Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson.
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George Stoneman graduated 33rd in his class of 59 cadets in 1846.
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George Stoneman fought in the Yuma War and was responsible for survey parties mapping the Sierra Nevada range for railroad lines.
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At the start of the Civil War George Stoneman was in command of Fort Brown, Texas, and refused the order of Maj.
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George Stoneman had a difficult relationship with McClellan, who did not understand the proper use of cavalry in warfare, relegating it to assignment in small units to infantry brigades.
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On November 22,1861, George Stoneman married Mary Oliver Hardisty of Baltimore.
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In early 1864, George Stoneman was impatient with garrison duty in Washington and requested another field command from his old friend Maj.
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William T Sherman, Stoneman commanded an unsuccessful raid of the infamous Andersonville Prison.
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George Stoneman became the highest-ranking Union prisoner of war, and he remained prisoner for three months.
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George Stoneman was exchanged relatively quickly due to the personal request of General Sherman.
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In December 1864, George Stoneman led a raid through southwestern Virginia.
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In March 1865, George Stoneman took roughly 4,000 troops out of Knoxville, Tennessee, and led them on a raid of Virginia and North Carolina, the intent being to cripple Confederate infrastructure and demoralize the population.
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In June 1865, following the end of war, George Stoneman was put in command of the Department of Tennessee in occupied Memphis.
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George Stoneman was criticized for inaction in the early days of the 1866 Memphis riots, which may have increased the damage.
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George Stoneman was subject to a congressional investigation, but was exonerated.
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George Stoneman was assigned to administer the military government in the sub-district of Petersburg, Virginia, and in 1868, he assumed command of the First Military District.
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George Stoneman mustered out of volunteer service on September 1,1866, and reverted to the regular army rank of colonel.
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George Stoneman was relieved of his command due to controversies surrounding his handling of the region's Indians, including the Camp Grant massacre.
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George Stoneman was a First Class Companion of the California Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
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George Stoneman moved to California, the place of which he had dreamed since his service as a young officer before the war.
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George Stoneman and his wife settled in the San Gabriel Valley on a 400-acre estate called Los Robles, which is a California Historical Landmark.
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George Stoneman was appointed to the California Transportation Commission in 1876.
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In 1882, George Stoneman was elected governor of California as a Democrat and served a single four-year term.
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George Stoneman was a proponent of prison reform, believing prisoners could be rehabilitated through parole.
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George Stoneman granted 260 pardons and commuted 146 prison sentences in the last few weeks of his term.
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George Stoneman was not renominated for governor in 1886; he left office and retired from public service.
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George Stoneman returned to New York State for medical treatment, and to stay with his sister, Charlotte S Williams.
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George Stoneman suffered a stroke in April 1894 from which he was unable to recover.
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George Stoneman died in Buffalo, New York, on September 5,1894, at age 72 and was buried at Bentley Cemetery in Lakewood, New York.
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Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train, Till George Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
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George Stoneman is not mentioned in the 1971 recording of the song by Joan Baez, in which she substitutes "so much cavalry" for "George Stoneman's cavalry".
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The adjoining George Stoneman Meadow takes its name from the hotel.
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The nearby George Stoneman Bridge takes its name from the meadow.
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General George Stoneman's name is engraved on the Sonoma Veterans Memorial Park Star of Honor due to his time there before the Civil War.