John Gibbon

John Gibbon
Born(1827-04-20)April 20, 1827
Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedFebruary 6, 1896(1896-02-06) (aged 68)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Place of burial
AllegianceUnited States of America
Union
Service/branchUnited States Army
Union Army
Years of service1847 – 1891
Rank Major General
Commands heldXXIV Corps, Army of the James
XVIII Corps
Second Division, II Corps
Second Division, I Corps
Iron Brigade
Battles/warsMexican–American War
Seminole Wars
American Civil War Great Sioux War
Nez Perce War
RelationsJohn Heysham Gibbon,
(great-nephew)

John Gibbon[1] (April 20, 1827 – February 6, 1896) was a career United States Army officer who fought in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.

  1. ^ Eicher, p. 253, Warner, p. 171, Tagg, p. 44, Lavery, John Gibbon, p. 838, Nolan, p. 40, Wright and Magner, p. 119, and Gibbon's gravestone list his name as John Gibbon. In the preface (p. ix) to Gibbon's Adventures on the Western Frontier, editors Alan and Maureen Gaff list a middle name of Oliver. A genealogical website Archived June 22, 2008, at the Wayback Machine on the "Heysham-Gibbon Branch" of the Hissem-Montague Family refers to possible middle names of Hannum, Heysham, and Oliver, but states that "a letter written by his younger brother, Nicholas, indicated that their father disliked middle-names, perhaps adverse to his own, and gave them to none of his children, excepting Nicholas who was given his by his mother."

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