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.

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 […]