The rank, office, or tenure of a general.He served in the western theater, where he won a major generalcy by 1863....
He then commanded another expedition to punish the Ashanti in West Africa, his capture of their capital at Kumasi in February 1873 being rewarded with his major generalcy.
With the July 4, 1863, capitulation of the city he was awarded a major generalcy in the regular army.