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The following year, he married Elizabeth Hamilton, granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton and sister of Union general Schuyler Hamilton. Their only child, Henry Wager Halleck Jr., was born in 1856, and died in 1882. [6] Halleck became a wealthy man as a lawyer and land speculator, and a noted collector of "Californiana".
Henry W. Halleck (born Jan. 16, 1815, Westernville, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 9, 1872, Louisville, Ky.) was a Union officer during the American Civil War who, despite his administrative skill as general in chief (1862–64), failed to achieve an overall battle strategy for Union forces.
El 12 de marzo de 1864, después de que Ulysses S. Grant, ex subalterno de Halleck en el oeste, fue ascendido a teniente general y general en jefe, Halleck fue relegado a jefe de personal, responsable de la administración de los vastos ejércitos de Estados Unidos.
Halleck married Elizabeth Hamilton – Alexander Hamilton’s granddaughter – in 1854 and resigned from the army to devote himself full-time to his lucrative legal activities.
12 de ene. de 2024 · On April 10, 1855, Halleck married Elizabeth Hamilton, the granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton. For the next six years, the couple lived in California, where Halleck managed one of the more prominent law firms in San Francisco, and he became an affluent landholder.
Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872) was a United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies, he was known by a nickname that became derogatory, "Old Brains."
Like many other frontier boys of the early nineteenth century, Halleck was stuck behind a plow but his head was full of dreams. He hungered to replace his hard manual labor with mental activity. He wanted to be sitting in a classroom learning, not walking in the hot sun behind a plow.
