List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union)
Name Highest actual grade Unit Brevet grade , rank date Date confirmed
Sacket , Delos Bennett Colonel Inspector Gen. USA Bvt . Brig . Gen. USA , March 13 , 1865 Bvt . Maj. Gen. USA , March 13 , 1865 July 23 , 1866 February 14 , 1868
Sackett , William H Colonel 9th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 July 23 , 1866
Salm-Salm , Prince Felix Colonel 68th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , April 13 , 1865 March 12 , 1866
Salomon , Charles Eberhard Colonel 9th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 12 , 1866
Salomon , Edward Selig Lt . Colonel 82nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 12 , 1866
Sanborn , William Lt . Colonel 22nd Regiment Michigan Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 July 26 , 1866
Sanders , Addison Hiatt Lt . Colonel 16th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 12 , 1866
Sanders , Horace T Colonel 19th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , April 19 , 1865 March 12 , 1866
Sanderson , Thomas Wakefield Lt . Colonel 10th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Cavalry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 April 10 , 1866
Sanford , Edward Sewall Colonel Additional Aide-de-Camp , USV Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 12 , 1866
Sargent , Horace Binney Colonel 1st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 21 , 1864 February 20 , 1865
Satterlee , Richard S Major Medical Purveyor , USA Bvt . Brig . Gen. USA , September 2 , 1864 February 20 , 1865
Sawtelle , Charles Greene Colonel Quartermaster , USA , Bvt . Brig . Gen. USA , March 13 , 1865 February 14 , 1867
Sawyer , Franklin Lt . Colonel 8th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 April 10 , 1866
Scates , Walter Bennett Major Asst . Adjutant Gen. USV Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 April 10 , 1866
Schmitt , William Andrew Lt . Colonel 27th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 May 18 , 1866
Schneider , Edward F Lt . Colonel 8th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 March 25 , 1866
Schofield , George Wheeler Lt . Colonel 2nd Regiment Missouri Volunteer Light Artillery Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , January 26 , 1865 February 14 , 1865
Scofield , Hiram Colonel 47th Regiment U.S . Colored Infantry Bvt . Brig . Gen. USV , March 13 , 1865 April 10 , 1866
Schriver , Edmund Colonel Inspector Gen. USA Bvt . Brig . Gen. USA , August 1 , 1864 Bvt . Maj. Gen. USA , March 13 , 1865 February 20 , 1865 July 14 , 1866
Union brevet generals ; lower actual , substantive grade -- S
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.