Major General Alexander Webb

Alexander Stewart Webb, brevet major general in the U.S. Army, was born in 1835 and died in 1911. He commanded the 69th, 71st, 72nd, and 106th Pennsylvania Infantry, the Philadelphia Brigade, which resisted Longstreet's assault on July 3, 1863. He entered the U.S.M.A. as a cadet on July 1, 1851, became brevet second lieutenant in the Fourth U.S. Artillery on July 1, 1855, second lieutenant in the Second Artillery on October 20, 1855, first lieutenant on April 26, 1861, captain in the Eleventh Infantry on May 14, 1861, lieutenant-colonel in the Forty-Fourth Infantry on July 28, 1866, and in the Fifth Infantry on March 15, 1869, before being honorably discharged at his own request on December 5, 1870. He also served as major of the First Rhode Island Light Artillery on September 14, 1861, lieutenant-colonel and assistant inspector general by assignment from August 20, 1862 to June 28, 1863, and brigadier general of U.S.V. on June 23, 1863, before being honorably mustered out of volunteer service on January 15, 1866. He commanded the 2nd Division, 2nd Corps in the Rapidan Campaign, and the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Corps in the Wilderness, and was severely wounded at Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864. He served as chief of staff of the Army of the Potomac from January 11, 1865 to June 28, 1865, and as assistant inspector general of the Division of the Atlantic from July 1, 1865 to February 21, 1866. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for distinguished personal gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg, where he was wounded, and received brevet promotions for gallant and meritorious services at Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, Spotsylvania, the campaign ending with the surrender of the insurgent army under General R.E. Lee, and during the war, as well as a brevet major-generalship in U.S.V. on August 1, 1864 for gallant and distinguished conduct at Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania.

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