Military officer; born in
Clarke county, Ind., March 2, 1828; served in the war with
Mexico; was made lieutenant in 1852; and was one of the garrison of
Fort Sumter during the bombardment in April, 1861.
The same year he was made captain, and became colonel of an Indiana regiment of volunteers.
In December he was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers, and commanded a division in the
battle of Pea Ridge early in 1862.
He
participated in the
battle of Corinth in 1862; commanded a division in the battles of
Stone River,
Murfreesboro, and
Chickamauga in 1862-63; and in 1864 commanded the 14th Army Corps in the
Atlanta campaign and in the March through
Georgia and the Carolinas.
He was brevetted major-general in 1865, and the next year was commissioned colonel of the 23d Infantry.
He was afterwards on the
Pacific coast; commanded troops in
Alaska; and also commanded the forces that subdued the Modocs, after the murder of
Gen. Edward R. S. Canby (q. v.), in 1873.
He died in
Chicago, Ill., Nov. 30, 1879.
