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was born at
Eagle Creek, Kentucky, September 13, 1817, and became a lawyer and politician.
He entered the
Civil War as colonel of volunteers and was major-general of volunteers before the end of 1862.
His first service was with
Fremont and
Pope in
Missouri, and later he was given a division of the Army of the Cumberland.
For a short time during the Tullahoma campaign he headed the Twenty-first Corps.
During the
Atlanta campaign he was in command of the Fourteenth Corps until August, 1864.
Later, he was in charge of the Department of Kentucky.
After the war, he was governor of
Illinois,
United States senator, and candidate of the
Gold Democrats for
President, in 1896.
He died in
Springfield, Illinois, September 25, 1900.
was born in
Clarke County, Indiana, March 2, 1828, and served as a volunteer in the
Mexican War. After this he entered the regular army.
He was a lieutenant at
Fort Sumter when the
Civil War broke out. Later on, he became captain and then colonel of an Indiana Regiment, and led a division in the Army of the Southwest at
Pea Ridge.
As
brigadier-general of volunteers, he served as division commander in
Pope's Army of the Mississippi and also in that of the
Cumberland, and took command of the Fourteenth Army Corps, August 22, 1864, and led it through
Georgia and the Carolinas until the close of the war. He remained in the regular army as colonel, and was at one time commander of the United States troops in
Alaska, and also was at the head of the troops that quelled the Modoc uprising of 1873, after the murder of
Canby.
He received the brevet of major-general in 1865.
He died in
Chicago, November 30, 1879.
(U. S.M. A. 1849) was born in
Livingston County, Kentucky, February 7, 1827, and saw his first service on the frontier.
He entered the
Civil War as captain of cavalry, becoming colonel of a Kentucky regiment.
He served in the Army of tie
Cumberland and its prior organizations.
His commission as brigadier-general of volunteers was dated October 19, 1861.
As cavalry commander, he was captured by
Morgan in August, 1862.
He commanded a division at
Stone's River,
Chickamauga, and
Chattanooga, and was severely wounded at New Hope Church.
For a short time in August, 1864, he headed the Fourteenth Army Corps.
Then he took charge of the cavalry forces in the Army of the Cumberland, and headed a division at
Nashville, for which service he received a brevet of major-general in the regular army.
After the war the entered the regular army as major in the Fourth Cavalry, also serving as provost-marshal-general and judge advocate in several departments.
He was professor of military science in the
University of
Minnesota, 1869-71.
He retired as major-general in 1867, and after 1875 had the rank of brigadier-general.
He died in
St. Paul, Minnesota, April 21, 1897.
Fifteenth Army Corps
Two divisions and some district troops of the Thirteenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee, were constituted the Fifteenth, on December 18, 1862.
In two divisions, it was on
Sherman's Yazoo Expedition and was also known as the Second Corps,
McClernand's Army of the Mississippi, from January 4 to January 12, 1863.
The commanders of the Fifteenth Corps were
Major-Generals W. T. Sherman,
F. P. Blair, Jr.,
John A. Logan,
Brigadier-General M. L. Smith, and
Major-Generals P. J. Osterhaus and
W. B. Hazen.
The corps took part in the
Vicksburg campaign, the
battle of Chattanooga, the relief of
Knoxville, the
Atlanta campaign, and the last campaigns of
Sherman.
After the
Grand Review of May 24, 1865, the corps went to
Louisville, Kentucky, and one division served with the army of occupation at
Little Rock, Arkansas.
The corps was discontinued August 1, 1865.
was born in
Coblenz, Germany, in 1823, and served as an officer in the Prussian army.
He came to
St. Louis, and in 1861 entered the
Union army as major of volunteers.
Later, as colonel, he had a brigade in the Army of the Southwest, and at
Pea Ridge he commanded a division.
Passing into the Army of the Tennessee as brigadier-general of volunteers, he commanded divisions in the Thirteenth and Fifteenth corps, taking part in the
