George Cadwalader
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George Cadwalader (May 16, 1806 – February 3, 1879) was a general in the United States army during the Mexican-American War and American Civil War.
Born in Philadelphia, Cadwalader studied law and was admitted to the bar. He served in the Pennsylvania state militia and suppressed anti-foreign riots in Philadelphia.
[edit] Mexican War
On March 3, 1847, he was appointed brigadier general and took command of a brigade of reinforcements being sent to Winfield Scott in central Mexico. His brigade was designated the 2nd Brigade in the newly formed 3rd Division under Gideon Pillow. He participated in the battles of Contreras, Churubusco, and Chapultepec. For his services at Chapultepec he was brevetted major general in the regular army.
[edit] Civil War
In April 1861, he received a commission as a major general of Pennsylvania Volunteers and took command of the 1st Division in Robert Patterson's Army of the Shenandoah. Patterson's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley amounted to very little, and Cadwalader was appointed major general of volunteers and placed in command of the post at Corinth, Mississippi. He returned to Pennsylvania and commanded the post at Philadelphia and successively the District of Philadelphia, the District of the Brandywine, and the District of the Susquehanna before resigning in July 1865. He spent the remainder of his life in Philadelphia.
- In some sources, his name appears mistakenly as Cadwallader.
[edit] Sources
- Eicher, John H., & Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
- Bauer, K. Jack,The Mexican-American War 1846-48
