Abel D. Streight
Abel D. Streight commanded the 51st Indiana Infantry and in April 1863 led roughly 1,700 mule-mounted troops on a raid to cut Confederate rail supply lines in Alabama and Georgia. After winning the Battle of Day’s Gap, his exhausted force was run down and surrounded by Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry and surrendered at Cedar Bluff. […]
William D. Williams
William W. Scearce
John Conover
John Conover enlisted as second lieutenant in the 8th Kansas Volunteer Infantry in 1861 and rose through captain and major to lieutenant colonel by October 1864, earning a brevet colonelcy for gallant and meritorious service. His regiment fought at Chickamauga, Chattanooga, in the Atlanta campaign, and at Franklin and Nashville. After his 1866 discharge he […]
Frank Askew
Frank Askew served with the 15th Ohio Infantry, commanding the regiment as lieutenant colonel at the Battle of Chickamauga in September 1863 and later leading it as colonel. Under his command the regiment also fought at Shiloh, Stones River, Missionary Ridge, throughout the Atlanta campaign, and at Nashville. His wartime reports praised the conduct of […]