Robert Patterson (general)
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Robert Patterson was an Irish-born American military officer who served in the United States Army during the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.
A portrait depicting Patterson during the Mexican-American War
Patterson's memorial and tombstone in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
The Army of the Shenandoah was a field army of the Union Army active during the American Civil War. First organized as the Department of the Shenandoah in 1861 and then disbanded in early 1862, the ar
Robert Patterson (general)
…mustered into service for the Civil War as a Union army major general of Pennsylvania volunteers and commanded the Department of Pennsylvania and the Army of the Shenandoah under the overall command of Winfield Scott. His son Francis Engle Patterson and his son-in-law John Joseph Abercrombie also served as Union Army…
Commander of the Army of the Shenandoah after August 1864