Pleasonton, Alfred

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07/07/1824—02/17/1897

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Full name

Alfred Pleasonton

Place of Birth

Washington, DC

Burial Place

Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC

Birth Date Certainty

Exact

Death Date Certainty

Exact

Gender

Male

Race

White

Sectional choice

North

Origins

Slave State

Family

Stephen Pleasonton (father), Mary Hopkins (mother), Augustus Pleasonton (brother)

Education

West Point (US Military Academy)

Occupation

Military

Relation to Slavery

White non-slaveholder

Military

US military (Pre-Civil War)

Union Army

US military (Post-Civil War)

Events

Date	Event
11/26/1861	Philadelphia's Home Guard, instituted in September, now numbers around four thousand members
04/27/1863—04/30/1863	The Army of the Potomac concentrates on Chancellorsville in preparation for an attack on Lee
05/01/1863	Union and Confederate armies collide near Chancellorsville in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
05/02/1863	"Stonewall" Jackson's flanking movement seizes the initiative in the Battle of Chancellorsville
05/03/1863	Lee's Army of Northern Virginia forces back entrenched Union forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville
05/05/1863—05/06/1863	The beaten Union Army retreats across the Rappahannock, ending the Battle of Chancellorsville
06/09/1863	Thousands of cavalrymen clash at Brandy Station, Virginia, in the largest cavalry battle of the war
06/21/1863	Near Upperville, Virginia, Union cavalry again clashes with the Confederate cavalry screen
06/23/1863	L. Walter Buckingham, war reporter for the New York Herald, is killed in guerrilla attack in Virginia
06/28/1863	Three young Union cavalrymen are promoted as brigade commanders, including one named Custer

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