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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Richard S. Ewell

1817 - 1872

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Richard Stoddert Ewell (February 8, 1817 – January 25, 1872) was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate general during the American Civil War. He achieved fame as a senior commander under Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and fought effectively through much of the war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard S. Ewell has received more than 491,403 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Richard S. Ewell is the 1,444th most popular military personnel (down from 1,358th in 2019), the 5,636th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,680th in 2019) and the 97th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 23

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  • 2.93

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  • 3.46

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Richard S. Ewell ranks 1,444 out of 1,468Before him are Yekaterina Zelenko, Jonathan M. Wainwright, Ioannis Frangoudis, Alexander Gorbatov, John Moore, and Diogo Lopes de Sequeira. After him are Conrad Albrecht, Mariya Oktyabrskaya, Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Ian Hamilton, William Guarnere, and Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Richard S. Ewell ranks 62Before him are Ernest Hébert, Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Charles Dancla, Alexandros Koumoundouros, and Jung Bahadur Rana. After him are José María Ventura Casas, Konstantin Aksakov, Florian Ceynowa, Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Serafino Dubois, and Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio. Among people deceased in 1872, Richard S. Ewell ranks 51Before him are Benjamin Briggs, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Hugo von Mohl, Michel Carré, and Bedros Tourian. After him are Andrej Sládkovič, Nikolaos Mantzaros, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Mpande kaSenzangakhona, Dimitrija Demeter, and William Davies Evans.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard S. Ewell ranks 5,636 out of 18,182Before him are Amber Valletta (1974), Dexter Holland (1965), William Eggleston (1939), Gordon Tullock (1922), Janet Reno (1938), and Roy Thomas (1940). After him are Lana Parrilla (1977), Wayne Rogers (1933), Charley Chase (1893), Louie Anderson (1953), Harold Perrineau (1963), and Brandon deWilde (1942).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Richard S. Ewell ranks 97Before him are Irvin McDowell (1818), Nathanael Greene (1742), Arthur MacArthur Jr. (1845), Moe Berg (1902), Lewis Powell (1844), and Jonathan M. Wainwright (1883). After him are William Guarnere (1923), Harold Rainsford Stark (1880), Eugene Sledge (1923), Smedley Butler (1881), Robert Anderson (1805), and J. D. Tippit (1924).