What are the names of the brigadier generals ?
This list of brevet major generals or brevet brigadier generals currently contains a section which gives the names of officers who held lower actual or substantive grades ( often referred to as ranks ) in the Union Army , were not promoted to full actual or substantive grade generals during or immediately after the war , but were awarded the grade of brevet major general or brevet brigadier general , almost always in recognition of service not as any form of promotion .