OREGON GENERALS AND THE GREAT WAR

Oregon WW1 generals - Charles Martin as Oregon Governor left and Ulysses S. McAlexander as a brigadier general.
Oregon WW1 generals – Charles Martin as Oregon Governor left and Ulysses S. McAlexander as a brigadier general.

Two of the men who made the rank of major general in the U.S. Army during the period of World War One had strong Oregon ties. After the war, both would retire to Oregon and eventually die there. They were very similar in many ways, though history remembers each a bit differently. Here are the Oregon generals.

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