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William Rowland Richardson was born in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China, on March 25, 1929, to missionary parents.Richardson graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1951 and was commissioned in the Infantry.
William Tecumseh Sherman (/ t ɪ ˈ k ʌ m s ə / tih-KUM-sə; [4] [5] February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861–1865), who earned recognition for his command of military strategy but criticism for the harshness of his scorched earth policies, which he ...
At West Point in 1912. Wilbur was born September 24, 1888, in Palmer, Massachusetts.He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1912 and joined the Army from his birth city of Palmer, Massachusetts. [1]
Waste Management (corporation), a North American garbage company (former NYSE stock symbol WM), doing business as WM Western Maryland Railway , a former railway in the United States Winair (Windward Islands Airways) (IATA airline code WM)
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy , and the Marines who served in the American Civil War. It was founded in 1866 in Decatur, Illinois , and grew to include thousands of "posts" (local community units) across the North and West.
The United States Military Academy (USMA), also referred to metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, [7] is a United States service academy in West Point, New York. It was originally established as a fort during the American Revolutionary War , as it sits on strategic high ground overlooking the Hudson River 50 miles (80 km) north of New ...
General William Bradford Rosson (August 25, 1918 – December 12, 2004) commanded the U.S. Army, Pacific from October 1970 to January 1973. He was commissioned in 1940 through ROTC and saw combat in World War II, earning the Distinguished Service Cross for valor on the Anzio Beachhead in Italy.
Deering was born April 25, 1826, in South Paris, Maine.In 1850, he moved to Plano, Illinois and Iowa and invested in the farmland of the area. [1] In 1856 he returned to Portland, Maine, and in the early 1860s he secured a contract producing uniform coats and pants for the Union Army.