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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dahlgren , Ulric , 1842 - (search)
Dahlgren, Ulric, 1842-
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
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.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)