Artillery officer; born in
Bucks county, Pa., in 1842; son of
Rear-Admiral Dahlgren.
At the outbreak of the
Civil War he became aide first to his father and later to
General Sigel, and was
Sigel's chief of artillery at the
second battle of Bull Run.
He distinguished himself in an attack on
Fredericksburg and at the
battle of Chancellorsville, and on the retreat of the
Confederates from
Gettysburg he led the charge into
Hagerstown.
He lost his life in a raid undertaken for the purpose of releasing
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Daiquiri, where the American army of invasion disembarked. |
National prisoners at Libby prison and
Belle Isle, near King and Queen's Court-house,
Va., March 4, 1864.
