John Ellis Wool (February 20, [1] 1784 – November 10, 1869) was a US officer in the United States Army during three consecutive American-involved wars: the War of 1812 (1812–1815), …

John Ellis Wool was the oldest officer actively serving in the United States Army during the Civil War. His military career spanned more than 50 years, beginning when he organized a …

John Ellis Wool (1784--1869) was a Union general in the American Civil War. Born in Newburg, New York, he was first a bookseller and subsequently a lawyer in New York. Upon the …

ranking generals in the Union army and headed the VIII Corps when it was created in July 1862. In January 1863, he commanded the re-created Department of the East. During the draft riots …

2021年4月1日 · The papers of John Ellis Wool are valuable to scholars primarily because he was a disciplined correspondent and nearly a complete record is present of his long and varied …

John Ellis Wool (February 20, 1784 – November 10, 1869) was an officer in the United States Army during three consecutive U.S. wars: the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War and …

2021年3月9日 · Like many historical figures who were prominent in their time and all but forgotten today, John Ellis Wool may be best known as the oldest general in the Civil War (he was 77 in …

At the beginning of 1861 Wool was appointed one of New York's representatives to the abortive Peace Conference, and as a northern Democrat, he announced his intention to be "an …

2012年11月10日 · Civil War Union Major General. Born 3 years after British General Charles Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown during the Revolutionary War (1781), he was the oldest …

An officer in the United States Army during three consecutive U.S. wars: the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. By the time of the Mexican-American …