Maj. Gen. Oliver Howard
Born: November 8, 1830
Leeds, Maine
Died: October 26, 1909
Burlington, Vermont
1854: West Point Graduate
1854: Brevet 2nd Lieutenant
July 1857: 1st Lieutenant
Colonel
September 3, 1861: Brigadier General
November 1862: Major General
Became known as the "Christian General"
1854: West Point Graduate - 4th out of 46
Brevet 2nd Lieutenant of ordnance
Served at the Waterviolet Arsenal near Troy, New York
July 1857: Promoted to 1st Lieutenant and returned to West Point to become instructor of mathematics
Appointed Colonel of 3rd Maine Infantry regiment
21 July 1861: 1st Battle of Bull Run - Temporarily commanded a brigade
3 September 1861: Promoted to Brigadier General and given permanent command of his brigade. Joined Maj. Gen. George McClellan for the Peninsula Campaign
1 June 1862: Battle of Four Oaks - was wounded twice in his right arm which needed to be amputated
Received the Medal of Honor for his actions in 1893
November 1862: Promoted to Major General and assumed command of the XI Corps
1-4 May 1863: Battle of Chancellorsville
1-3 July 1863: Gen. Meade replaced Gen. Howard with Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, but Howard objects as he was senior to Hancock
Howard selected Cemetery Hill with standing assault by Maj. Gen. Jubal Early and a margin of the defense against Pickett's Charge
Howard and the XI Corps were transferred to the Western Theater to become part of the Army of the Cumberland in Tennessee
October - November 1863: Chattanooga Campaign
25 November 1863: Battle of Missionary Ridge where impulsive attacks forced the retreat of Gen. Braxton Bragg
Led the Right Wing of Sherman's March to the Sea through George and the Carolina's
May 1865 to July 1874:Commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau (the Army Bureau of Refugees, Freedom, and Abandoned Lands), played a major role in the Reconstruction era
Was strongly disliked by Pres. Johnson
1872: Ordered to Arizona to negotiate a peace treaty with Cochise
1874:Command of the Department of the Columbia and moved to Washington Territory's Fort Vancouver
1881-1882: Superintendent of West Point
1882- 1886: Department of the Platte
1886-1888: Military Division of the Pacific
1888: His final command was Department of the East (Military Division of the Atlantic) at Fort Columbia on Governor's Island in New York Harbor
1894: Retired with the rank of Major General
Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1967. p 413-414
Oiver Otis Howard. 24 April 2022. web. 1 June 2022.
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964. p 237-239