Tag: Gouverneur K. Warren

• Gouverneur Kemble Warren

  Part of the Cool Civil War Names series. This guy had what you could call a complicated relationship with the Civil War. Before that, though, he graduated from West Point (duh) in 1850, second in his class, and joined the Corps of Topographical Engineers as a brevet 2nd lieutenant. As part of the transcontinental railroad surveys,…

  Jul 2, 2012

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