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ision at Shiloh. Later, he was at the head of several districts in the department and was given command of the reorganized Sixteenth Corps, Army of the Tennessee, in December, 1862. In September, 1862, he was promoted to major-general of volunteers. He succeeded Major-General N. P. Banks in command of the Army and Department of the Gulf. He left the volunteer service at the end of the war, and at the time of his death, March 27, 1882, was United States minister to Peru. Major-General Grenville Mellen dodge was born in Danvers, Massachusetts, April 12, 1831. He was a member of the Government survey in the West until the Civil War broke out, when he went to the front as colonel of the Fourth Iowa Infantry, in July, 1861. He fought with the Army of the Southwest, and, being transferred to the Department of Tennessee, he commanded the troops in several districts thereof, as well as divisions of the Thirteenth and Sixteenth corps, having been made brigadier-general of volunteers
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831- (search)
Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831- Military officer; born in Danvers, Mass., April 12, 1831; educated at Partridge's Military Academy, Norwich, Conn., and became a railroad surveyor in Illinois and Iowa and westward to the Rocky Mountains. He was sent to Washington in 1861 to procure arms and equipments for Iowa volunteers, and became colonel of the 4th Iowa Regiment in July. He commanded a brigade on the extreme right at the battle of Pea Ridge, and was wounded. For his services there he was made brigadier-general. He was appointed to the command of the District of the Mississippi in June, 1862. He was with Sherman in his Georgia campaign, and was promoted to major-general. He finally commanded the 16th Corps in that campaign, and in December, 1864, he succeeded Rosecrans in command of the Department of Missouri. In 1867-69 he was a member of Congress from Iowa, and subsequently was engaged in railroad business.
Vicksburg from Baton Rouge in 1862; present at the battle of Baton Rouge. Major, 2d La. Infantry, Oct. 20, 1862. Mustered out, June 22, 1863. Major, 1st U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 18, 1864. Lieut. Colonel, Mar. 8, 1864. Colonel, Mar. 12, 1864. In Suffolk, Va., in 1864. Present at the battles of Port Hudson Plains, Fort Rice and Port Hudson; engaged in Indian campaign in Dakota, 1864 and 1865. Brevet Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Mustered out, Nov. 27, 1865. Dodge, Grenville Mellen. Born at Danvers, Mass., Apr. 12, 1831. Colonel, 4th Iowa Infantry, July 6, 1861. Served in Missouri under Fremont; commanded a brigade in the Army of the Southwest; engaged in the battle of Pea Ridge, where he was wounded. Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 21, 1862. In command of the district of Mississippi, June, 1862; superintended the construction of the Mississippi and Ohio Railroad; served during the Vicksburg campaign. Appointed to the command of Corinth, Nov. 15,
ted, Sept. 6, 1867. Major, Paymaster, Jan. 13, 1880; accepted, Jan. 25, 1880. Dodge, Frederick Laighton. Born at Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 9, 1840. Private, 44th Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., Sept. 12, 1862. Honorably discharged, June 18, 1863. First Lieutenant, 18th N. H. Infantry, Mar. 22, 1865. Mustered out, July 29, 1865. Second Lieutenant, 23d U. S. Infantry, Mar. 7, 1867. First Lieutenant, Jan. 22, 1873. Captain, June 22, 1889. Died, Sept. 18, 1891. Dodge, Grenville Mellen. See General Officers. Dodge, Nathaniel Shatswell. Born in Massachusetts. First Lieutenant, Regimental Quartermaster, 119th N. Y. Infantry, Sept. 1, 1862. Captain, Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, June 1, 1863. Resigned, July 21, 1865. Died Feb. 2, 1874. Dodge, Theodore Ayrault. Born at Pittsfield, Mass., May 28, 1842. Private, 101st N. Y. Infantry, Apr., 1861. First Lieutenant, Feb. 13, 1862. Resigned, Oct. 16, 1862. First Lieutenant, Adjutant, 119th N
dence in Massachusetts at time of enlistment. First Lieutenant, 70th N. Y. Infantry, June 22, 1861. Captain. Discharged (disability), Dec. 27, 1862. Dodge, Frederick Laighton. Born at Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 9, 1840. Private, 44th Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., Sept. 12, 1862. Discharged, June 18, 1863. First Lieutenant, 18th N. H. Infantry, Mar. 22, 1865. Mustered out, July 29, 1865. Second Lieutenant, 23d U. S. Infantry, Mar. 7, 1867. See U. S. Army. Dodge, Grenville Mellen. See General Officers. Dodge, James N. Born in Massachusetts. Captain, 1st Battalion Minn. Infantry, Apr. 3, 1865; mustered, Apr. 5, 1865. Discharged, July 25, 1865. Dodge, Nathaniel Shatswell. Born in Massachusetts. First Lieutenant, Regimental Quartermaster, 119th N. Y. Infantry, Sept. 1, 1862. Captain, Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, June 1, 1863. See U. S. Army. Dodge, Theodore Ayrault. Born at Pittsfield, Mass., May 28, 1842. Private, 101st
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, Index of names of persons. (search)
insmore, G. R., 380 Dinsmore, M. D. L., 44 Disham, E. W., 44 Disley, G. H., 44 Dix, C. W., 270 Dix, Dorothea L., 594, 595 Dix, J. H., 581 Dixon, G. S., 270 Dixwell, E. S., 581 Doan, G. P., 412 Doane, Elisha, 211, 521 Doane, Henry, 270 Doane, Lyman, 270 Doble, F. M., 270 Dodd, Albert, 270, 412, 521 Dodd, Charles, 270 Dodd, Charles, 464 Dodd, G. W., 270 Dodd, S. G., 393 Dodge, D. J., 270 Dodge, E. E., 464 Dodge, F. L., 413, 465 Dodge, F. S., 412, 487 Dodge, G. H., 44 Dodge, G. M., 177, 413, 465 Dodge, J. G. C., 211, 521 Dodge, J. N., 465 Dodge, N. S., 413, 465 Dodge, R. A., 576 Dodge, R. F., 44 Dodge, T. A., 413, 465, 521, 644 Dodge, T. W., 44 Doherty, J. F., 270 Doherty, James, 211, 270, 521 Doherty, James, 270 Doherty, John, 270 Doherty, Robert, 44 Doherty, W. W., 270 Dolan, D. A., 270 Dolan, Philip, 270 Dolbeare, F. K., 271 Dollard, Robert, 271, 488 Dolliver, G. C., 44 Dolliver, W. H., 271 Domett, G. W., 44 Donahue, Benedict, 44 Donaldson