Comments on: Who Was the Youngest Civil War General http://www.historynet.com/who-was-the-youngest-civil-war-general.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:51:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: LTC Lew E. Cureton U.S. Army http://www.historynet.com/who-was-the-youngest-civil-war-general.htm#comment-816958 LTC Lew E. Cureton U.S. Army Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:48:43 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683768#comment-816958 Great catch Mr. Kane!!! Well done! They should give you historian of the decade!!! Very impressed!!! Great catch Mr. Kane!!! Well done! They should give you historian of the decade!!! Very impressed!!!

]]> By: RUSS KANE http://www.historynet.com/who-was-the-youngest-civil-war-general.htm#comment-602059 RUSS KANE Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:25:20 +0000 http://www.historynet.com/?p=13683768#comment-602059 In the 8/11 CWT issue there is a photo error on page 55 of William Marvel's " THE BOY GENERALS!". THE upper left photo IS NOT William Kirby!. Kirby, a West Point classmate of George Custer (USMA 1861), was an artillery lieutenant badly wounded at Chancellorsville in May 1863!. He was shippped home, to Connecticutt, dying of wounds soon after. To ensure his widowed mother received adequate "death" benefits,; Congress brevetted Kirby as a brigadier general(U.S.V.). The award was posthumous, thus NO PHOTO of Kirby, as a general exists! Kirby's photo is in Warner's GENERALS IN BLUE(1957) , and CLASS OF 1861 (USMC). Please correct this photo error; and correctly identify the mis-identified soldier! Thank you; Russ Kane, P.A.-C Kissimmee, Florida In the 8/11 CWT issue there is a photo error on page 55 of William Marvel's " THE BOY GENERALS!". THE upper left photo IS NOT William Kirby!. Kirby, a West Point classmate of George Custer (USMA 1861), was an artillery lieutenant badly wounded at Chancellorsville in May 1863!. He was shippped home, to Connecticutt, dying of wounds soon after. To ensure his widowed mother received adequate "death" benefits,; Congress brevetted Kirby as a brigadier general(U.S.V.). The award was posthumous, thus NO PHOTO of Kirby, as a general exists! Kirby's photo is in Warner's GENERALS IN BLUE(1957) , and CLASS OF 1861 (USMC). Please correct this photo error; and correctly identify the mis-identified soldier!

Thank you; Russ Kane, P.A.-C
Kissimmee, Florida

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