List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union)
Name Highest actual grade Unit Brevet grade , rank date Date confirmed
Nase , Adam Major 15th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 April 10 , 1866
Neafie , Allfred Lt . Colonel 156th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 24 , 1868
Neff , Andrew Jackson Lt . Colonel 84th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 28 , 1867
Neff , George Washington Colonel 88th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 April 10 , 1866
Neide , Horace Lt . Colonel 13th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 July 26 , 1866
Nettleton , Alvred Bayard Lt . Colonel 2nd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 May 18 , 1866
Newberry , Walter Cass Colonel 24th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 31 , 1865 March 12 , 1866
Newport , Reece Marshall Colonel Quartermaster Dept. , USV Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 February 21 , 1867
Nichols , George F Colonel 118th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 July 26 , 1866
Nichols , George Sylvester Colonel 9th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 February 21 , 1867
Nichols , William Augustus Colonel Asst . Adjutant Gen. USA Bvt . Brig . Gen. USA September 24 , 1864 Bvt . Maj. Gen. USA , March 13 , 1865 March 9 , 1865 March 28 , 1867
Niles , Nathaniel Colonel 130th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 July 19 , 1867
Noble , John Willock Colonel 3rd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 July 23 , 1866
Noble , William H Colonel 17th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 12 , 1866
Northcott , Robert Sanders Lt . Colonel 12th Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 12 , 1866
Norton , Charles Benjamin Lt . Colonel Quartermaster Dept. , USV Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 February 16 , 1869
Noyes , Edward Follansbee Colonel 39th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 12 , 1866
Nugent , Robert Colonel 69th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 12 , 1866
Nye , George Henry Major 29th Regiment Maine Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , October 29 , 1864 Bvt . Maj. Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 12 , 1866 July 23 , 1866
Union brevet generals ; lower actual , substantive grade -- N
This is a list of American Civil War brevet generals that served the Union Army. This list of brevet major generals or brevet brigadier generals currently contains a section which gives the names of officers who held lower actual or substantive grades (often referred to as ranks) in the Union Army, were not promoted to full actual or substantive grade generals during or immediately after the war, but were awarded the grade of brevet major general or brevet brigadier general, almost always in recognition of service not as any form of promotion. The first section shows these officers' actual grades and regiments or assignments. Dates in the list are explained below. The lists of general officers who were in active service as or were promoted to the grade of brigadier general or major general, or in the case of Ulysses S. Grant, lieutenant general, in the Regular Army of the United States at the start of or during the Civil War and of officers who were appointed as brigadier generals or major generals in the volunteer forces which constituted most of the Union Army, who were awarded brevet general grades have been moved to a draft user page for revision and reduction in length. Information on brevet appointments or awards for these officers still may be found at List of American Civil War Generals (Union). A small number of these awards were made before the generals who received them were promoted to full actual grade generals. Many of the awards were brevet major general grades given to full, actual grade regular army or volunteer force brigadier generals. Some volunteer generals also received brevet awards of general officer grades in the Regular Army of the United States, which were higher awards than brevet awards in the volunteer services. The second and third sections have (or will have) the appointment dates for full general promotions since the officers often began acting in the capacity of general officers before they were confirmed and commissioned. These sections have the same information concerning and dates of the brevet awards as have those in the first section.