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Understanding the Rank of Brigadier General in the United States Armed Forces

This quiz tests your knowledge about the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Armed Forces, including its history, responsibilities, and insignia.

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1 ________

2 A brigadier general in the ________, Air Force, and Marine Corps, is a one-star general officer, with the pay grade of O-7.

3 Since the ________, however, the lower rank of colonel has been the normal rank appointed to command a brigade.

4 ________

5 The rank of Brigadier General has existed in the United States armed forces since the ________.

6 Marine Corps was Commandant Archibald Henderson, promoted to the rank of brevet Brigadier General in the 1830s for his service in the ________.

7 A brigadier general was, at first, strictly an infantry officer who commanded a ________; however, over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, the responsibilities of the rank expanded significantly.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Littleberry Mosby Jr, captain and brigadier general during the Revolution and War of 1812, disinherited his son, Littleberry Mosby III, for leaving Virginia.
  • Luther Prentice Bradley, a Union brigadier general in the American Civil War, was severely wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga where he commanded a brigade.
  • Robert Byington Mitchell, who was Brigadier General in the Union Army during the American Civil War, served as Governor of New Mexico Territory from 1866 to 1869.
  • Henry Bohlen, an American Civil War Union Brigadier General who was born in Germany in 1810, was the first foreign-born Union general in the Civil War.
  • Francis Amasa Walker (pictured) was brevetted a Brigadier General in the Union Army at the age of 24 and placed in charge of the 1870 United States Census at 29.
  • Brigadier Generals Winfield Scott and Edmund P. Gaines fought bitterly over a promotion to major general in the United States Regular Army that Colonel Alexander Macomb received instead.
  • Edward Payson Chapin (pictured) was wounded twice in the American Civil War and promoted to brigadier general four months after being killed in action.
  • Brigadier General James Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor twenty years after his actions in the pursuit of Chief Joseph following the Battle of the Clearwater in 1877.
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