biography
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| lived:
| (1839–81)
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| biography:
| US soldier and military theorist, born near Batavia, New York, USA. He trained at West Point (1861), and earned rapid promotion. At Spotsylvania (1864), his tactical innovations led to a penetration of forbidding Confederate defences, and he later published important works on tactical theory. He committed suicide after discovering he had contracted a fatal disease. |
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