Charles H. Butterfield
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, […]
Horatio G. Fisher
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 […]
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 […]