Civil War era businesses still in operation.

Even though it was founded 1837, in 1862, Tiffany & Co supplied the Union Army with Model 1840 Cavalry Sabers, flags, surgical instruments, medals and insignia. Also there is Pfizer founded by Charles Pfizer in 1849 that produced thousands of bandages, splints, and vials of surgical ether and as the war dragged on, artificial limbs.
 
Cadwallader C. Washburn, brother of Illinois congressman Elihu B. Washburne, and was a commander of a cavalry regiment in Grant's Army of the Tennessee, before the war became President of the Minneapolis Flour Mill Company that was chartered by the Minnesota territorial legislature in 1856. Two of the incorporators was Wasburn's cousin Dorilus Morrison and Robert Smith, another Congressman from Illinois who acquired the rights to the water power at the west side of St. Anthony Falls. That mill company today is General Mills. I highly recommend visiting the Mill City Museum on the Mississippi River waterfront.
 
Cadwallader C. Washburn, brother of Illinois congressman Elihu B. Washburne, and was a commander of a cavalry regiment in Grant's Army of the Tennessee...
Have to put in a good word for C.C. -- while he did initially command the 2nd WI Cavalry, when he served under Grant he first commanded a brigade of cavalry and then commanded infantry divisions during the Vicksburg campaign; he then led infantry divisions in the texas campaign of the winter of 1863 and spent part of 1864 commanding the post of Memphis.
 
My favorite steak sauce!

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