
	Where results make sense

Topic: Alfred Pleasonton

In the News (Sun 27 May 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Alfred Pleasonton - Definition, explanation
		Pleasonton was born in Washington, D.C, the son of Stephen and Mary Hopkins Pleasonton.
		Alfred's much older brother, Augustus, attended the U.S. Military Academy and served as Assistant Adjutant General and paymaster of the state of Pennsylvania; his career direction obviously affected his younger brother's and both boys were assured nomination to the Academy by their father's fame from the War of 1812.
		Pleasonton was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Theater and commanded the District of Central Missouri and the District of St. Louis in 1864.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/al/alfred_pleasonton.php (1466 words)

	Alfred Pleasonton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pleasonton was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Stephen and Mary Hopkins Pleasonton.
		On September 2, Pleasonton assumed division command in the cavalry and was wounded by an artillery shell at the Battle of Antietam.
		Pleasonton was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Theater and commanded the District of Central Missouri and the District of St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Pleasonton (2422 words)

	Alfred Pleasonton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alfred's much older brother, Augustus, attended the U.S. Military Academy and served as Assistant Adjutant General and paymaster of the state of Pennsylvania; his career direction obviously affected his younger brother's and both boys were assured nomination to the Academy by their father's fame from the War of 1812.
		In postwar writings, Pleasonton attempted to portray his role in the battle as being a major one, including predicting to Meade that the town of Gettysburg would be the decisive point and, after the Confederate defeat in Pickett's Charge, that he urged Meade to attack Gen. Lee and finish him off.
		Pleasonton was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Theater and commanded the District of Central Missouri and the District of St. Louis in 1864.
	www.gogog.com /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alfred_Pleasonton (1470 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Battle of Brandy Station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alfred Pleasonton Alfred Pleasonton was a U.S. Army officer and general of Union cavalry during the American Civil War.
		Alfred Pleasonton, commanding the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac, had organized his combined-armed forces into two "wings," under Brig.
		Pleasonton was, however, unaware of the precise disposition of the enemy and he incorrectly assumed that his force was substantially larger than the Confederates he faced.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Brandy-Station (6779 words)

	Alfred Pleasonton - Encyclopedia.com
		Alfred Pleasonton 1824-97, Union general in the American Civil War, b.
		On June 9, 1863, Union Gen. Alfred Pleasonton's cavalry surprised the troops of Confederate Gen...
		Alfred Pleasonton to disperse and destroy the Rebel...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Pleasont.html (812 words)

	Price's Raid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred Pleasonton, detached from William S. Rosecrans's Department of Missouri.
		Pleasonton's actions, however, frightened Price and his army, and influenced them, after they had crossed the Big Blue, to send their wagon trains to Little Santa Fe on the Fort Scott Road.
		Price withdrew south, and Pleasonton, commanding in the field, pursued him into Kansas and fought him on the banks of the Marais des Cygnes River, at Trading Post in Linn County, Kansas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Price's_Raid (2285 words)

	Rantings of a Civil War Historian » Blog Archive » Alfred Pleasonton
		Pleasonton was a lead from the rear kind of a guy who was a masterful schemer and political intriguer.
		Pleasonton got rid of Duffie by sacrificing his fine, veteran regiment by sending it on a mission behind enemy lines alone and unsupported, and the regiment was chopped to bits.
		Pleasonton’s downfall was that he was a lead from the rear kind of guy who managed to really piss off the one person whom he couldn’t afford to piss off.
	civilwarcavalry.com /?p=24 (1022 words)

	Battle of Middleburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On June 17, Col. Alfred Napoleon Duffié's isolated 1st Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment was attacked by the brigades of Thomas T. Munford and Beverly Robertson.
		Early in the morning, Col. Duffié, a French-born officer, had taken the 280 men of the 1st Rhode Island Cavalry westward from the Army of the Potomac's camp near Centreville.
		Alfred Pleasonton had ordered him to camp at Middleburg that evening and then to proceed the next day toward Noland's Ferry, extending his march to the west as far as Snickersville.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Middleburg (835 words)

	Picture History : Alfred Pleasonton
		"Alfred Pleasonton (1842-1897): Alfred Pleasonton was a brevet major general for the Union Army.
		Pleasonton was appointed brigadier general of volunteers in 1862 and commanded the cavalry corps at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.
		Pleasonton was brevetted for Antietam, Gettysburg, and Price's raid (brigadier general in the regular army) and for war service (major general in the regular army).
	www.picturehistory.com /find/p/18994/mcms.html (164 words)

	San Juan Island National Historical Park - Alfred Pleasonton (U.S. National Park Service)
		Alfred Pleasonton was born July 7, 1824 in the District of Columbia.
		Unfortunately for Pleasonton, he was not in the orbit of the newly coined U.S. Army commander, Lt. Gen.
		Alfred Pleasonton when Custer was a member of his staff.
	www.nps.gov /sajh/historyculture/alfred-pleasonton.htm (402 words)

	Chancellorsville: Dusk, lies, and cavalry
		Alfred Pleasonton had graduated (a respectable seventh in his class) from West Point in 1844, a contemporary on the banks of the Hudson River with Jackson, Grant, McClellan, and dozens of other youngsters destined for Civil War fame.
		A participant in the events described Pleasonton's feverishly concocted, heroic autobiographical tribute to himself as "the egotistical and unreliable romances of General Alfred Pleasonton." By his own fanciful version, Pleasonton desperately had thrown the 8th Pennsylvania forward as a forlorn hope, to win him a few moments' time.
		Pleasonton's self-described bravura performance that early evening included going out to capture prisoners, prescient fellows who were able to tell him that "Stonewall" Jackson had been mortally wounded by Pleasonton's fire, even before Jackson had been wounded.
	www.fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2002/082002/08312002/705744/printer_friendly (1204 words)

	Pleasonton slow to track Lee's push North - The Washington Times: Culture, etc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pleasonton's slowness in searching for Lee was highlighted earlier when the authorities in Washington notified the cavalry commander for the capital area, Gen. Julius Stahel, to send a detachment of his men into the Shenandoah Valley as far as Front Royal and Winchester.
		A factor limiting Pleasonton's cavalrymen from discovering Ewell's march to the Valley was their responsibility to help defend against a Confederate attack across the Rappahannock River.
		If Pleasonton's mission had been carried out properly, it is reasonable to expect that he would have discovered Ewell's movement into the Valley and notified Hooker.
	www.washtimes.com /culture/20030704-010537-9179r.htm (1291 words)

	Farewell, Gen. Pleasonton (August 24, 2001)
		Alfred Pleasonton, who was a friend of city founder John Kottinger.
		His wife, Bev, puts on her hoop skirts and becomes Laura Pleasonton, the general's sister, who never married and is buried next to him in the family plot in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington.
		Pleasonton was the youngest of the seven children of Stephen Pleasonton, a civilian hero of the War of 1812.
	www.pleasantonweekly.com /morgue/2001/2001_08_24.general24.html (1896 words)

	[No title]
		Pleasonton was not entirely popular with the men under his command.
		Pleasonton is the bete noir of all cavalry officers...He is pure and simple a newspaper humbug.
		Pleasonton 's plan assumed the Confederate cavalry was concentrated at Culpeper, five miles from Brandy Station.
	www.gdg.org /Research/People/Buford/brandy1.html (1163 words)

	Civil War General of the Day
		Alfred Pleasonton, with whom he had campaigned on the Plains; and the "circus rider gone mad," fellow brigadier general George Custer.
		He showed talent at reconnaissance as often as Alfred Pleasonton revealed his inadequacy, consistently providing Pope's headquarters with timely intelligence about Longstreet's Corps's approach to the battlefield that was fatally ignored.
		Pleasonton, however, withdrew Buford's entire force to Westminster to refit in the army's rear.
	www.rocemabra.com /~roger/tagg/generals/general36.html (1158 words)

	Civil War Battle History of Brandy Station, Virginia
		Joseph Hooker, commander of the Union Army of the Potomac, assigned a reconnaissance-in-force to Pleasonton's 11,000 man cavalry.
		Pleasonton planned to strike the enemy across the Rappahannock River on the morning of June 9.
		Pleasonton, seeing the dust clouds of a new group of approaching Confederate infantry, ordered his forces to withdraw.
	www.civilwar.org /historyclassroom/hc_brandystationhist.htm (383 words)

	Battle of Brandy Station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Stuart's men gave ground, and for a time seemed in danger of being driven from the field altogether, and although Stuart rallied them and at last forced the federals back to their own side of the river he had obviously been taken by surprise, which was most humiliating.
		Also, the new federal cavalry commander, Brigadier General Alfred Pleasonton, had discovered what was going on, and he was able to tell Hooker that Lee's army was going north.
		Pleasonton got a major general's commission for his efforts, and Hooker began to suspect that Lee was making a bad move.
	www.ggw.org /~nycav/brandy.htm (657 words)

	The Inkwell Gallery, Historical Figures, Civil War, Gideon J. Pillow
		The endorsement is on the reverse of a portion of a special order issued by General John Buford, Commanding 1st Cavalry Division requesting that Colonel Arno Voss be relieved from command of his Regiment.
		Pleasonton concurs "This order is approved and respectfully referred to the Hd.
		Army of the Potomac, with the recommendation that Col. Voss be relieved from duty with the Cavalry Corps, as he is not competent to command either a regiment or brigade of Cavalry in the field.
	www.inkwellgallery.com /historical/civilwar/pleasontona-2.htm (176 words)

	Alfred Pleasonton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alfred Pleasonton commanded the Federal Cavalry attached to the Army of the Potomac.
		Upon George Meade's elevation to Commander of the Army, Pleasonton tried to reinvigorate the fighting spirit of his corps.
		During the Battle of Gettysburg, Pleasonton stayed mainly with Meade's Headquarters, leaving independent field command in the hands of his three division commanders, John Buford, David McM.
	www.eng.auburn.edu /users/schwartz/ACW/lrtmap.docs/pleasonton.html (216 words)

	Gettysburg Campaign Battles
		Union cavalry corps under Major General Alfred Pleasonton launched a surprise attack on Major General James Ewell Brown "J.E.B." Stuart's cavalry at Brandy Station at dawn on June 9, 1863.
		On June 17, Col. Alfred Duffié’s isolated 1st Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment was attacked by the brigades of Confederate Colonels Thomas Munford and Beverly Robertson.
		had been fighting a series of delaying actions in the Loudoun Valley, hoping to keep Union General Alfred Pleasonton's cavalry from discovering the location of the main body of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, much of which was in the Shenandoah Valley just west of the small village of Upperville.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /AH-GettysburgCampaignBattles.html (889 words)

	Aldie to Upperville Tour - Photos of Civil War Sites
		Union General Hooker ordered General Alfred Pleasonton to find Lee's Army.
		Pleasonton's sent cavalry northwest after Lee toward Winchester, Berryville, and Harper's Ferry.
		Thus Stuart sent three brigades to three points where they might effectively delay Pleasonton's cavalry: Thoroughfare Gap, Aldie Gap, and Rectortown.
	www.civilwarfieldtrips.com /stuart (149 words)

	THE SIXTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY AT THE BATTLE OF BRANDY STATION, JUNE 9, 1863
		Alfred Pleasonton, the commander of the Army of the Potomac’s Cavalry Corps, under orders from Maj. Gen.
		Pleasonton’s plan was sound—Buford, commanding the right wing of the Cavalry Corps, would take his division, several batteries of horse artillery, and a brigade of infantry, cross the Rappahannock River at Beverly Ford, and approach the Confederates from the north.
		David M. Gregg, commanding the left wing, would take his Second Division and Col. Alfred Duffie’s Third Division, cross the Rappahannock at Kelly’s Ford, advance through the town of Stevensburg, and merge with Buford’s troopers at Culpeper.
	www.rushslancers.com /brandy.html (1115 words)

	MAJOR GENERAL ALFRED PLEASONTON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alfred Pleasonton graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1844, ranking seventh of twenty-five members.
		After his military service, he was in the Internal Revenue Service for a while until he had a controversy over authority and was asked to resign.
		Mason: Pleasonton was a long time member of Franklin Lodge, #134, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
	www.falmr.org /plsntn.htm (242 words)

	Civil War Collection - Finding Aids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Abstract: John Buford’s letter (September 16, 1863; 3 pages), to Major General Alfred Pleasonton, describes the scouting actions of Buford’s brigade along the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers.
		The letter, dated September 16, 1863, was written to Major General Alfred Pleasonton, commander of the cavalry.
		There were reports in the Union camp that Lee was planning on moving his army farther south; in fact he had sent Gen. James Longstreet’s Corps to Charleston, South Carolina and twelve thousand troops to Tennessee.
	www.pearcecollections.us /civilwar/fa_ind.php?fid=79 (549 words)

	Judson Kilpatrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Judson Kilpatrick commanded the Third Division of Alfred Pleasonton's cavalry corps.
		He was given command of the Third Division on 28 June, and two of Pleasonton"s "boy generals," George Custer and Elon Farnsworth, were among his brigade commanders.
		On 3 July, Kilpatrick, south of Gettysburg, was ordered by George Meade and Pleasonton to use Farnsworth's brigade to attack, without infantry support, Philip A. Work's 1st Texas and Evander M. Law's brigade.
	www.eng.auburn.edu /users/schwap1/ACW/lrtmap.docs/kilpatrick.html (268 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)