McPherson, James B.

McPherson, James B.

▪ United States military officer
in full  James Birdseye Mcpherson 
born Nov. 14, 1828, Sandusky county, Ohio, U.S.
died July 22, 1864, near Atlanta, Ga.
 Union general of the American Civil War about whose death General Ulysses S. Grant (Grant, Ulysses S.) is reported to have said, “The country has lost one of its best soldiers, and I have lost my best friend.”

      After graduation from West Point at the head of the class of 1849, McPherson was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers and held minor army assignments until the outbreak of the Civil War (1861). Following several months with General H.W. Halleck in Missouri, he was assigned to General Grant's staff as chief engineer in the Tennessee campaign and, after distinguished service at the battles of Shiloh, Tenn., and Corinth, Miss., was promoted to major general of volunteers. He participated in the second advance on Vicksburg, Miss. (1863), and, after the city fell, was promoted to brigadier general in the regular army. In March 1864 he took command of the Army of the Tennessee, which moved against Atlanta under General William T. Sherman's (Sherman, William Tecumseh) supreme command. Shortly after reporting to Sherman, the youthful officer was killed by a Confederate skirmisher.

Additional Reading
Elizabeth J. Whaley, Forgotten Hero: General James B. McPherson (1955), is a biography.

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