If the person impeached, after service,shall fail to appear, either in person or by attorney, onthe day so fixed therefor as aforesaid, or, appearing, shallfail to file his answer to such articles of impeachment, thetrial shall proceed, nevertheless, as upon a plea of notguilty.
Quick Answer. As of September 2015, there are 11 four-star generals in the U.S. Army, 10 in the Navy, 4 in the Marine Corps and 13 in the Air Force. The general rank comes above the other general officer ranks: lieutenant general, major general and brigadier general. Continue Reading.
Description: More than 400 Confederate and 580 Union soldiers advanced to the rank of general during the course of the Civil War. (More than 1 in 10 would die.) A total of 124 generals died--78 for the South and 46 for the North.or most of the American Civil War the Union Army assigned only two general ranks: brigadier-general and major-general. I n 1864 the rank of lieutenant-general was reactivated and assigned to Ulysses Simpson Grant.