# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-w-averell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:05.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-w-averell"
name: "William W. Averell"
slug: "william-w-averell"
description: "William Woods Averell was a career United States Army officer and a cavalry general in the American Civil War. He was the only Union general to achieve a major victory against the Confederates in the Valley Campaigns of 1864 prior to the arrival of Philip Sheridan, at the Battle of Rutherford's (Carter's) Farm and at the Battle of Moorefield."
tagline: "Union Army general (1832-1900)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_W_Averell.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1832-11-05"
deathDate: "1900-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.4
  momentum:             0.9433962264150945
  historical:           4.816704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Averell"
    title: "William W. Averell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Woods_Averell"
    title: "William Woods Averell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Averell"
    title: "William W. Averell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Averell"
    title: "William W. Averell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Woods_Averell"
    title: "William Woods Averell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4020177"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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