Charles Griffin | |
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Born | Granville, Ohio, U.S. | December 18, 1825
Died | September 15, 1867 Galveston, Texas, U.S. | (aged 41)
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Allegiance | United States of America Union |
Service/ | United States Army Union Army |
Years of service | 1847–1867 |
Rank | ![]() |
Commands | V Corps |
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Charles Griffin (December 18, 1825 – September 15, 1867) was a career officer in the United States Army and a Union general in the American Civil War. He rose to command a corps in the Army of the Potomac and fought in many of the key campaigns in the Eastern Theater.
After the war, he commanded the Department of Texas during Reconstruction. He was an ardent supporter of the Congressional policies of the Radical Republicans and of freedmen's rights, and controversially disqualified a number of state officeholders in Texas who had supported the Confederate States of America, replacing them with loyal Unionists.
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