William S. Harney
William S. Harney
William Selby Harney was a Tennessee-born cavalry officer in the US Army, who became known during the Indian Wars and the Mexican–American War. One of four general officers in the US Army at the beginning of the American Civil War, he was removed from overseeing the Department of the West because of his Confederate sympathies early in the war although he kept Missouri from joining the Confederacy. Under President Andrew Johnson, he served with on the Indian Peace Commission, negotiating several treaties before spending his retirement partly in St. Louis and partly trading reminiscences with Jefferson Davis and Ulysses S. Grant in Mississippi.
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Male
Date of Birth
August 22nd, 1800
Age
223
Birth Place
United States of America, Tennessee, Nashville
Date of Death
May 9th, 1889
Died Aged
88
Star Sign
Leo
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