John Gibbon | |
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| Born | April 20, 1827 Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | February 6, 1896 (aged 68) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
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| Allegiance | United States of America Union |
| Service | United States Army Union Army |
| Years of service | 1847 – 1891 |
| Rank |  Major General |
| Commands | XXIV Corps, Army of the James XVIII Corps Second Division, II Corps Second Division, I Corps Iron Brigade |
| Battles / wars | Mexican–American War Seminole Wars American Civil War
Nez Perce War |
| Relations | John Heysham Gibbon, (great-nephew) |
John Gibbon[1] (April 20, 1827 – February 6, 1896) was a career United States Army officer who fought in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.
- ^ Eicher, p. 253, Warner, p. 171, Tagg, p. 44, Lavery, John Gibbon, p. 838, Nolan, p. 40, Wright and Magner, p. 119, and Gibbon's gravestone list his name as John Gibbon. In the preface (p. ix) to Gibbon's Adventures on the Western Frontier, editors Alan and Maureen Gaff list a middle name of Oliver. A genealogical website Archived June 22, 2008, at the Wayback Machine on the "Heysham-Gibbon Branch" of the Hissem-Montague Family refers to possible middle names of Hannum, Heysham, and Oliver, but states that "a letter written by his younger brother, Nicholas, indicated that their father disliked middle-names, perhaps adverse to his own, and gave them to none of his children, excepting Nicholas who was given his by his mother."