Talk:William S. Rosecrans

Don't know if useful, so I've refrained adding to the page (which looks like a temporary stub no doubt to be amplified):

The Military Academy at West Point has been issuing for about a century and a half now a 'Register' of all its graduates, with details, sometimes very extensive, of their careers after graduation. Until a few decades ago, it was referred to as "Cullum's Register", since much like FortWiki, it was originally the work of one man, Gen. George W. Cullum.

For very important West Point graduates, like Lee, Grant, MacArthur, Cullum represents a bare skeleton compared to subsequent full biographies and even online material like Wickedpedia, so the Register for them is less useful. The more minor the figure, the better the Register entries serve as essentially primary sources. For intermediate figures like Gen. Rosecrans — where a further considerably more detailed biographical sketch is often given by the link at the bottom of the page ("See Annual Association of Graduates…"), it's a judgment call.

You will have noticed Template:Cullum put in by John years ago, a version of which might be used on link pages like this?

Bill Thayer (talk) 07:19, 12 March 2025 (PDT)