Born Marietta, Ohio, Mar. 23, 1818,
Died. Nov. 19, 1898,
Don Carlos Buell
Buell graduated in 1841 from West Point, and soon after served in the Mexican
War. Promoted to Brigadier General at the start of the Civil War, he was
given command of the Army of the Ohio in November of 1861. Buell supported
Ulysses S. Grant's invasion of Tennessee by seizing Nashville on February
2, 1862, and he supplied vital reenforcement to Grant at the Battle of
Shiloh on April 6-7 1862. In September 1862 he marched north into Kentucky
to oppose a Confederate offensive led by Braxton Bragg. After a fierce,
but inconclusive, battle at Perryville on October 8, Buell was criticized
for allowing the Confederates to escape and relieved of command on October
24th.
Bibliography: Harrison, Lowell H., The Civil War in Kentucky (1975; repr.
1987).