biography
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| lived:
| (1818–98)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born near Marietta, Ohio, USA. He trained at West Point (1841) and saw combat in the Mexican War, in which he was severely wounded. In mid-1861 he helped organize the Army of the Potomac, and took command of the newly formed Department of the Ohio later in the year. His unopposed entry into Nashville (1862) followed in the wake of Grant's victories at Forts Henry and Donelson. Buell's forces arrived at Shiloh in April, barely in time to reinforce Grant and assure his victory. After fighting Bragg's Confederate army to a draw at Perryville, KY (8 Oct 1862), he was relieved of command for failing to pursue the retreating enemy. Regarded as overly cautious, he was never again assigned a field command, so he resigned from the army (1864). He settled in Kentucky after the war, where he worked with an iron company and as a pension agent. |
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