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title: Gustave P. Cluseret
artist: Mathew Brady Studio, active 1844 - 1894
source: National Portrait Gallery
notes: The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand […]
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https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.81.M565

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Axomamma, Antifa's cousin*Sep 2

@SmithsonianRoulette "Allegedly, his command was so chaotic and disorganized that Cluseret by accident ordered his troops to fire on his own cavalry, which killed one of their horses, causing consternation and a torrent of complaints by officers of his brigade to the division commander, General Milroy."

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Paul_Cluseret#In_the_American_Civil_War

Gustave Paul Cluseret - Wikipedia

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Axomamma, Antifa's cousin*Sep 2

@SmithsonianRoulette "Later on, several officers of Cluseret's brigade sent a formal petition to Milroy complaining of Cluseret's "tyrannical behavior" and rudeness, his lack of fluency in English and his European background which they viewed made it impossible for him to "understand the genius of our institutions" and (abridged) "inability of a commander of European conscripts to command American volunteer armies."

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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD Sep 2

@SmithsonianRoulette "Gustave Paul Cluseret (13 June 1823 – 22 August 1900) was a French soldier and politician who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and Delegate for War during the Paris Commune.... leaving the International Workingmen's Association in 1893, and siding with the anti-Dreyfusards during the Dreyfus Affair...."
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