Charles Case
Charles Case served as colonel of the 129th Indiana Infantry Regiment, organized at Kendallville and Michigan City, Indiana, and mustered in on March 1, 1864. He led the regiment at its formation before resigning his commission on June 1, 1864, and was succeeded by Colonel Charles A. Zollinger. The regiment went on to serve through […]
Jacob D. Cox
Jacob D. Cox rose from brigadier general to major general, commanding the Kanawha Division in western Virginia and later the 3rd Division of the XXIII Corps under John Schofield. He fought at Scary Creek, South Mountain, and Antietam, then served through the Atlanta Campaign, Franklin, Nashville, and the Carolinas Campaign. He survived the war unwounded […]
George W. Hoge
George Blaikie Hoge organized and commanded the 113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the “Third Chicago Board of Trade Regiment,” mustered in near Chicago on October 1, 1862. As colonel he led the regiment through Grant’s Central Mississippi Campaign and the capture of Fort Hindman at Arkansas Post, then through the Siege of Vicksburg, where his men […]
Horatio G. Fisher
John C. McQuiston
John Craven McQuiston enlisted in 1861 as a captain in the 16th Indiana Infantry Regiment, seeing his first combat at the Battle of Ball’s Bluff and in operations around the Shenandoah before being discharged in 1862. He later organized and commanded the 123rd Indiana Infantry Regiment as colonel, leading it through the Atlanta Campaign, Franklin, […]
Charles H. Butterfield
John Mehringer
John Mehringer served with the 91st Indiana Infantry Regiment, mustered in at Evansville, Indiana, on October 1, 1862, as lieutenant colonel, and was promoted to colonel on September 12, 1863. Under his command the regiment took part in the Atlanta Campaign, including Kennesaw Mountain and the siege of Atlanta, as well as the Battles of […]
Edgar Sowers
Isaac R. Sherwood
Isaac R. Sherwood served in the 14th Ohio Infantry before becoming lieutenant colonel of the 111th Ohio Infantry Regiment, which he commanded at the Battle of Nashville. He was later brevetted brigadier general for conspicuous service. After the war Sherwood had a long political career in Congress, where decades later he became known as an […]
Oliver L. Spaulding
Oliver L. Spaulding rose to colonel (later brevet brigadier general) commanding the 23rd Michigan Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. After the war he entered politics, serving as Michigan Secretary of State from 1866 to 1870 and as a U.S. Representative from Michigan’s 6th district from 1881 to 1883, later holding several U.S. Treasury Department […]