Benjamin Q. A. Gresham
George H. Covode
George Hay Covode, a Pennsylvania merchant, served as a colonel of cavalry in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was born in 1835 and died in 1864, during the war itself.
William R. Cook
Gilbert M. L. Johnson
Gilbert Marquis Lafayette Johnson, an Indiana officer, served in the Union Army during the Civil War, reaching the rank of colonel. In 1866 he was nominated and confirmed for the honorary rank of brevet brigadier general. He was born in 1837 and died in 1871.
Edward Anderson
Edward Clifford Anderson, a former U.S. Navy officer, served as a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, commanding Fort James Jackson near Savannah, Georgia, until its capture in 1864. He was elected mayor of Savannah eight times both before and after the war, becoming the city’s first postwar mayor in December […]
William T. Pepper
Fielding Hurst
Fielding Jackson Hurst, a surveyor, planter, and lawyer from McNairy County, Tennessee, served as a colonel in the Union Army, commanding the 6th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War. A Southern Unionist and slaveholder, he later served in the Tennessee Senate and as a judge, and remains a controversial figure. He was born […]
William C. Myers
LeRoy Fitch
LeRoy Fitch served with distinction in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War, commanding the gunboat Moose on the Mississippi Squadron. In 1863 he pursued Confederate raider General John Hunt Morgan some 500 miles up the Ohio River, blocking his attempts to cross back into Confederate territory. He died in Logansport, Indiana, in 1875.