Sep 062010
![[William Starke Rosecrans]](http://saints.sqpn.com/ncd07177.jpg "51kb jpg photograph of William Starke Rosecrans from the National Archive")
Profile
Military strategist, inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and United States Army officer. While teaching at West Point Military Academy, he became a Catholic. In the Civil War he won high repute in command of the Army of Cumberland until defeated at Chickamauga. Brother of Sylvester Horton Rosecrans. Awarded the Laetare Medal in 1896.
Born
- 6 September 1819 in Kingston, Ohio
- 11 March 1898 near Redondo, California
MLA Citation
- “William Starke Rosecrans”. People of the Faith. Saints.SQPN.com. 6 September 2010. web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/william-starke-rosecrans/>