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William Francis Bartlett

Biography of a Union General in the Civil War
By:Richard A. Sauers; Martin H. Sable
Publisher:McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Print ISBN:9780786441464
eText ISBN:9781476610689
Edition:0
Copyright:2009
Format:Page Fidelity

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Frank Bartlett was an indifferent student at Harvard when the Civil War began in 1861, but after he joined the Union army he quickly found that he had an aptitude for leadership and rose from captain to brevet major general by 1865. Over the course of the war he was wounded three times (one injury resulted in the loss of a leg), but he remained on active duty until he was captured in 1864. His political stance gained him some national fame after the war, but he struggled with repeated business stress until tuberculosis and other illnesses led to his early death at age 36.