Hartranft was highly distinguished before he was thirty-seven.

Nelson A.Miles left his counting-room at twenty-one, enlisted as a private, and in two years was a brigadier-general.

Selden Connor was rewarded with the same rank for his conduct at the battle of the Wilderness before he was twenty-seven.

Nicholas L.Anderson was under thirty when he received his brevet of major-general for a military career worthy in all respects of his eminent kinsman who fired the first gun in defense of the Union.

The only general of volunteers beyond fifty years of age who acquired special distinction was James S.Wadsworth who in his fifty-seventh year fell in one of the most sanguinary battles of the war.
The list, both of regulars and volunteers, who achieved high command while still young, might be largely increased.