# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-babcock-hazen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:07:30.341Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-babcock-hazen"
name: "William Babcock Hazen"
slug: "william-babcock-hazen"
description: "William Babcock Hazen was a career United States Army officer who served in the Indian Wars, as a Union general in the American Civil War, and as Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army. His most famous service was defending \"Hell's Half Acre\" at the Battle of Stones River in 1862, and seizing Fort McAllister, Georgia, in December 1864, which allowed William Sherman to capture Savannah at the end of his March to the Sea."
tagline: "Union Army general (1830–1887)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Babcock_Hazen_-_Brady-Handy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1830-09-27"
deathDate: "1887-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.884414666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Babcock_Hazen"
    title: "William Babcock Hazen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%86"
    title: "ويليام بابكوك هازن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Babcock_Hazen"
    title: "William Babcock Hazen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%98%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BA%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ウィリアム・ヘイズン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Babcock_Hazen"
    title: "William Babcock Hazen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Hazen"
    title: "William B. Hazen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1108648"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump