William H. Squires
William H. Squires helped raise Company K of the 26th Ohio Infantry in 1861 and was elected its first captain, later rising to major and then lieutenant colonel for gallant service. He commanded the regiment at the Battle of Stones River, helping hold the Union center, and served roughly four years despite advancing age. Squires […]
John Q. Lane
John Quincy Lane, a Zanesville, Ohio attorney, organized and commanded the 97th Ohio Infantry from September 1862, leading it through the Perryville, Stones River, Tullahoma, and Chattanooga campaigns. By the 1864 Atlanta and Franklin-Nashville campaigns he commanded a brigade in Wagner’s division, IV Corps; his brigade was overrun in the disastrous advanced line at the […]
Charles M. Hammond
Charles M. Hammond served with the 100th Illinois Infantry, rising from major to lieutenant colonel. Organized at Joliet in 1862, the regiment fought at Bardstown, Stones River, Chickamauga, and Missionary Ridge as part of Sheridan’s/Wagner’s division, then through the Atlanta Campaign, Franklin, and Nashville, suffering over 200 dead. Hammond survived these engagements and mustered out […]
Henry Leaming
Henry Leaming rose from captain to major and lieutenant colonel of the 40th Indiana Infantry, assuming regimental command after Lieutenant Colonel Elias Neff was wounded at Stones River. He led the 40th during the brutal Missionary Ridge assault, sustaining a knee wound from enemy fire but remaining in command, and continued through the Atlanta Campaign, […]
Cyrus E. Briant
Cyrus E. Briant enlisted as a captain in the 88th Indiana Infantry in August 1862, was promoted to lieutenant colonel in December 1862, and was commissioned (but never mustered) colonel in October 1863. The regiment served in the Army of the Cumberland through the Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Atlanta campaigns and the March to the Sea. […]