Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios -  General William Henry French

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   FRENCH, GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY, was a native of Baltimore, and was
   forty-six years of age at the outbreak of the war. He was graduated
   from West Point with the class of 1837. In the Mexican War he was on
   the staff of General Patterson, acted as aide to General Pierce,
   afterward President of the United States; distinguished himself in the
   battles preceeding the capture of Mexico, and rose to the rank of
   major by brevet. At the outbreak of the war he was in command at Key
   West, Florida. He was then transferred to the Army of the Potomac. He
   took part in the Peninsular and Rappahannock campaigns, and was at the
   battles of Fair Oaks, Gaines' Mill, Peach Orchard, Savage's Station,
   Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, in all
   of which he showed himself a gallant fighter. In 1862 he was made
   major-general of volunteers, and was given command of the Third Army
   Corps. In March in 1863 he was ordered to report at Philadelphia, and
   about the close of the war was mustered out of the volunteer service.
   With the end of hostilities he was transferred to the Pacific Coast,
   And in 1875 was assigned to the Second Artillery, stationed at Fort
   McHenry, Maryland.