John Reynolds was forty-three when he fell at the head of his corps in the first day's fight at Gettysburg.

Rosecrans was forty-two when he gained the important victory at Stone River.

Burnside was thirty-seven when he made the admirable record of his North-Carolina campaign.

Howard was thirty-two when he was assigned to the command of a corps, and only a year older when he succeeded McPherson in the command of the army of the Tennessee.

McPherson was thirty-five when he gave up his heroic life on the bloody field before Atlanta.