James Grant Wilson

James Grant Wilson (April 28, 1832 – February 1, 1914) was an American soldier, editor, and author.

Biography

Wilson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He emigrated to New York City and then moved to Illinois.Eicher, pp. 573-74.] He was educated chiefly by private tutors and through travel in Europe. In 1857 he founded the Chicago "Record", a journal of art and literature, and entered the Union Army late in 1862 as a major of the 15th Illinois Cavalry, commanded the 4th U.S.C. Cavalry as colonel, and left the Army in 1865 as a brevet brigadier general.

After the Civil War, he lived in New York where he became a well-known speaker, a frequent contributor to periodicals, president of the Society of American Authors, and, after 1885, of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. He edited Fitz-Greene Halleck's "Poems" (1868); "A Memorial History of the City of New York" (four volumes, 1892-93); "Appleton's Cyclopœdia of American Biography" (six volumes, 1887-89, with John Fiske; volume vii, 1900), an excellent book of reference; "The Great Commanders Series" (eighteen volumes, completed 1913); "The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914" (four volumes, 1914), the work of many distinguished writers.

Wilson died in New York City and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York.

elected works

* "Biographical Sketches of Illinois Officers" (1862-63)
* "Life of Fitz-Greene Halleck" (1869)
* "Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers" (1874)
* "Poets and Poetry of Scotland" (1876)
* "Centennial History of the Diocese of New York, 1775-1885" (1886)
* "Bryant and his Friends" (1886)
* "Commodore Isaac Hull and the Frigate Constitutiuon (1889)
* "Love in Letters" (1896)
* "Life of General Grant" (1897)
* "Thackeray in the United States" (two volumes, 1904)

ee also

*List of American Civil War generals

References

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* Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., "Civil War High Commands", Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.

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