# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-b-mcpherson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:31:10.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-b-mcpherson"
name: "James B. McPherson"
slug: "james-b-mcpherson"
description: "James Birdseye McPherson (/məkˈfərsən/) was a career United States Army officer who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. McPherson was on the general staff of Henry Halleck and later of Ulysses S. Grant and was with Grant at the Battle of Shiloh. He was killed during the Battle of Atlanta, facing the army of his old West Point classmate John Bell Hood, who paid a warm tribute to his character. He was the second-highest-ranking Union officer killed in action during the war."
tagline: "Career officer of the United States Army (1828–1864)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brady-GeneralMcPherson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1828-11-14"
deathDate: "1864-07-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.86
  momentum:             1.902604756511891
  historical:           12.347708
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump