George Crockett Strong

George Crockett Strong ( born October 16, 1832 in Stockbridge, Vermont, † July 20, 1863 in New York, NY ) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Strong had visited the Military Academy at West Point and completed in 1857. At the beginning of the Civil War he served on the staff of General McDowell, among others, during the first battle of Manassas, and later on the staff of General McClellan.

Ordered to the West, he served under General Butler, was involved in an expedition against New Orleans and led an expedition against Ponchartoula as Major, September 15, 1862.

In November 1862 he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers. Him being in command of a brigade in the first division of the Tenth Corps on Morris Iceland, South Carolina. This brigade led on July 18, 1863 the second attack on Fort Wagner, a Confederate attachment to protect the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. During this storm attack, by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and his 54th Massachusetts were known, Strong suffered a serious wound. On July 20, 1863, he finally died in New York, before he was promoted to Major General, which was not confirmed by the Senate.