Henry Wager Halleck

Birth Date

1815-01-16

Death Date

1872-01-09

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

U.S. Army soldier. Westernville, New York, native. Married to Elizabeth Halleck. Father of Harry Halleck. Attended the Hudson Academy. Attended Union College. Graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1839. Officer in the Corps of Engineers. Secretary of state of California under a temporary military government. A framer of the constitution of California. Resigned from the U.S. Army. Attorney in California from 1854 to 1861. Rejoined the U.S. Army as a major general on August 19, 1861. Commander of the Department of the Missouri in November 1861. Commander of the Department of the Mississippi. General-in-chief of the U.S. Army from July 1862 to March 1864. Chief of staff of the U.S. Army from March 1864 to 1865. Commander of the Military Division of the James until August 1865. Served in San Francisco, California, from August 1865 until 1869.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 6, p. 134.
Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 195-97.
Find A Grave, "Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815-January 9, 1872)," Memorial #3300, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3300 (accessed November 8, 2018).

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