George Crockett Strong
George Crockett Strong (born October 16, 1832 in Stockbridge , Vermont , † July 20, 1863 in New York , NY ) was a general in the Union Army in the American Civil War .
Life
Strong had the Military Academy in West Point attended and completed. 1857 At the beginning of the Civil War he served on General McDowell's staff , including during the first Battle of Manassas , and later on General McClellan's staff .
Assigned to the West, he served under General Benjamin Franklin Butler , participated in an expedition against New Orleans and finally led an expedition as a major against Ponchatoula in Louisiana on September 15, 1862.
In November 1862 he was promoted to Brigadier General of the Volunteers. He was given command of a brigade in the X Corps First Division on Morris Island , South Carolina . This brigade led the second assault on Fort Wagner , a Confederate fortification protecting the port of Charleston , South Carolina , on July 18, 1863 . Strong was seriously wounded during this assault, made famous by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and his 54th Massachusetts . On July 20, 1863, he finally died in New York, before he was promoted to major general , which the Senate did not confirm.
He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City, where there is also a memorial to him.
Fort Strong, an artillery emplacement on Deer Island in Boston Harbor, was named after him in 1899.
In the movie
Jay O. Sanders portrayed him in the 1989 film Glory .
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| SURNAME | Strong, George Crockett |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | General of the Northern States in the Civil War |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockbridge , Vermont |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 20, 1863 |
| Place of death | New York , New York |