William B. Franklin
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William Buel Franklin was a career United States Army officer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. He rose to the rank of a corps commander in the Army of the Potomac, fighting in several notable battles in the Eastern Theater of... Wikipedia
Born: February 27, 1823, York, PA
Died: March 8, 1903 (age 80 years), Hartford, CT
Books: A Reply of Maj.-Gen. William B. Franklin: To the Report of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Conduct of the War, Submitted to the Public on the 6th of April, 1863, The Gatling Gun, for Service Ashore and Afloat: With a History of the Invention, Description of the Gun, Official Reports of Recent Trials, and March to South Pass: Lieutenant William B. Franklin's Journal of the Kearny Expedition of 1845
Parents: Walter S. Franklin
Rank: Major General
Service/branch: United States Army; Union Army