Rosecrans, William Starke (b. 1819)

Rosecrans, William Starke, American general, born at Kingston, Ohio; trained as an engineer, he had settled down to coal-mining when the Civil War broke out; joined the army in 1861, and rapidly came to the front; highly distinguished himself during the campaigns of 1862-63, winning battles at Iuka, Corinth, and Stone River; but defeated at Chickamauga he lost his command; reinstated in 1864 he drove Price out of Missouri; has been minister to Mexico, a member of Congress, and since 1885 Registrar of the U.S. Treasury; (b. 1819).

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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Rosas, Jean Manuel
Roscher, Wilhelm
Roscius, Quintus
Roscoe, Sir Henry
Roscoe, William
Roscommon
Roscrea
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of
Rosecrans, William Starke
Rosenkranz, Karl
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Rosetta
Rosicrucians
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Rosmini, Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
Ross, Sir John
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