Samuel W. Crawford, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Samuel W. Crawford

United States Army surgeon and Union general (1829-1892)

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1829

Place of Birth: Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1892

Profession: physician, military officer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Samuel Wylie Crawford (November 8, 1829 – November 3, 1892) was a United States Army surgeon and a Union general in the American Civil War. Transferring to the infantry early in the war, he led a brigade at Cedar Mountain which routed a division that included Stonewall Jackson’s unit, though it was later driven back.
Severely wounded at Antietam, he was back in action at Gettysburg, where his division drove the Confederates out of ‘Death Valley’ beside Little Round Top, with Crawford dramatically seizing the colours and leading from the front.
Although this was a relatively minor engagement, Crawford tried for years to become officially acknowledged as the sole saviour of Gettysburg, but without success.
The preservation of the battlefield, however, is largely due to his efforts. In the last days of the war, his division went astray at Five Forks, causing his corps commander, Maj.
Gen.
Gouverneur K.
Warren, to miss the attack while searching for them - one of the pretexts used by Sheridan for his controversial sacking of Warren.



Description	American photographer, war photographer, photojournalist and journalist
Date of birth/death	18 May 1822	15 January 1896
Location of birth/death	Warren County	Manhattan
Work period	from 1844 until circa 1887 date QS:P,+1887-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	New York City, Washington, D.C.
Authority control	: Q187850 VIAF: 22965552 ISNI: 0000 0001 2209 4376 ULAN: 500126201 LCCN: n81140569 NAID: 10570155 WorldCat