Brooks, William Thomas Harbaugh

Life Span
to
Full name
William Thomas Harbaugh Brooks
Place of Birth
New Lisbon, OH
Burial Place
Huntsville, AL
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Family
 Alme Drake (wife)
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Occupation
Military
Farmer or Planter
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
Date Event
- The Army of the Potomac concentrates on Chancellorsville in preparation for an attack on Lee
Union and Confederate armies collide near Chancellorsville in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
"Stonewall" Jackson's flanking movement seizes the initiative in the Battle of Chancellorsville
Lee's Army of Northern Virginia forces back entrenched Union forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville
- The beaten Union Army retreats across the Rappahannock, ending the Battle of Chancellorsville
The War Department sets up two new Army Departments for the defense of Pennsylvania
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