Gustavus A. Eberhart

Gustavus A. Eberhart of Blackhawk County, Iowa, was commissioned Major and later Lieutenant Colonel of the 32nd Iowa Infantry Regiment, serving under Colonel John Scott. In November 1862 he led a four-company detachment garrisoning Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The regiment went on to fight in the Red River Campaign, at Pleasant Hill, Tupelo, Nashville, and the […]

Edward H. Wolfe

Edward H. Wolfe served as an officer of the 52nd Indiana Infantry Regiment, rising from major to colonel by September 1862. He commanded brigades in the XVI Corps, Army of the Tennessee, through much of 1864, including service in the Department of the Cumberland. A merchant before the war, he was mustered out of the […]

Jonathan B. Moore

Jonathan B. Moore was a Wisconsin businessman and Union Army officer during the Civil War. Before the war he served as sheriff of Grant County, Wisconsin, and represented the county in the Wisconsin State Assembly. He returned to public life afterward as a farmer and Grant County pioneer. He was born in 1825 and died […]

Lyman M. Ward

Lyman M. Ward served as a colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War and received an honorary brevet to brigadier general for his service. A farmer and Republican politician from Berrien County, Michigan, he went on to serve four years in the Michigan House of Representatives after the war. He was born in […]