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Jacob wet nurses

Jacob Ammen (born January 7, 1807 in Fincastle , Botetourt County , Virginia , † February 6, 1894 in Lockland , Ohio ) was a college teacher , civil engineer and brigadier general in the US Army during the American Civil War . His younger brother, Daniel Ammen , was an admiral in the US Navy .

Early years

Jacob attended school in Georgetown , Ohio. He made an early decision to pursue a military career and attended the US Military Academy at West Point , New York , from which he graduated with honors in 1831. He then worked there for two years in addition to his duties as a lieutenant in the 1st US Artillery Regiment as a military advisor. He also trained militiamen as a drill sergeant and was a captain in the Georgetown militia. During the nullification crisis he was stationed in Charleston Harbor .

In 1837 he resigned from the US Army and then taught mathematics at colleges in Kentucky and Missouri . From 1840 to 1843 he was chairman of the Mathematics Department at Indiana University Bloomington . He then returned to teaching in Kentucky and Missouri before starting to work as a civil engineer in Ripley , Ohio in 1855 .

Civil War

Within a week of the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Ammen again enlisted in the US Army, where he served as captain in the newly established Ohio 12th Infantry Regiment. He was soon appointed regimental commander of the 24th Ohio Infantry Regiment. After training at Camp Chase in Columbus , Ohio, Ammen's Regiment was stationed in western Virginia in late July 1861, where it participated in the Battle of Cheat Mountain .

Nurse was transferred to the western theater of war and led a brigade of the Ohio Army at the Battle of Shiloh and the first Battle of Corinth . On July 16, 1862 wet nurses was promoted to brigadier general. In August, he assumed command of the Division William Nelson , who was given a new command.

Because Ammen's health deteriorated, he commanded Camp Douglas , Illinois , and other garrisons in the spring of 1863 . Towards the end of the year he received a field command again and commanded the 4th Division of the XXIII. Corps . Shortly before the end of the war, he resigned from his post in January 1865 and returned home.

Further career

Was nurses (as a surveyor English. Surveyor and Civil in) Hamilton County , Ohio operates. Then in 1872 he bought a farm near Beltsville , Maryland . Two years later he was involved in determining the possible routes for the Panama Canal . He also served on the Board of Visitors at the US Military Academy in 1875 . After retiring, he settled in Wyoming , Ohio, near Cincinnati .

In 1891, due to increasing blindness, he moved to his son in Lockland, Ohio, where he died three years later at the age of 87. He was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery , Cincinnati.

literature

  • Who Was Who: Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967.
  • Warner, Ezra J., Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964, ISBN 0-8071-0822-7 .

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