George Leonard Andrews

George Leonard Andrews (1828 – 1899) was an American professor, civil engineer, and soldier. He was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Biography

George Andrews was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and in 1851 graduated at West Point at the head of his class. For two years (1854-56), he was assistant professor of engineering at West Point. He then resigned from the service and was engaged in engineering work until the beginning of the Civil War, when he entered the Union Army as a lieutenant colonel.

He served in the Shenandoah Valley in 1861, and then took part in Maj. Gen. John Pope's Northern Virginia Campaign in 1862. He was raised to the rank of brigadier general in November 1862, and later bore a prominent part in General Banks' expedition to New Orleans. Andrews was the commander of the Corps d' Afrique from 1863 to 1865.

Andrews was brevetted as a major general of volunteers dating from March 1865 for "faithful and meritorious services in the campaign against Mobile". He mustered out of the service later that year.

After the war, Andrews was a United States marshal in Massachusetts from 1867 to 1871. He was a professor of French at West Point from 1871 to 1882, and of modern languages from 1882 until his retirement in 1892.

ee also

*List of American Civil War generals

References

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External links

*findagrave|12840 Retrieved on 2008-01-05

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