★ Cutler, Lysander

Lysander "Gray Wolf" Cutler​

Born: February 16, 1807

Birthplace: Royalston, Massachusetts

Father: Tarrant Cutler 1771 – 1842

(Buried: Old Centre Cemetery, Royalston, Massachusetts)​

Mother: Lydia Whitney 1776 – 1855

(Buried: Old Centre Cemetery, Royalston, Massachusetts)​

Wife: Catherine Walker Bassett 1808 – 1888

(Buried: Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)​

Children:

William Graham Cutler 1831 – 1916​

(Buried: Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)​

Occupation before War:

Schoolmaster in Dexter, Maine​

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Colonel in the Maine State Militia​

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Owner of Woolen Mill, Foundry, Flourmill and Saw Mill in Maine​

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Investor in Factories and tenement housing​

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Director of a Railroad Company​

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Trustee of Tufts College​

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1841: Maine State Senator​

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1843 – 1853: Owner of a Woolen Mill that Burned in 1853​

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1857: became 100% financially ruined​

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Claims Investigator for a Mining Company in Wisconsin​

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Founder and Owner of a Grain Business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin​

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Civil War Career:

1861 – 1862: Colonel of 6th​ Wisconsin Volunteers Infantry Regiment​

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Alienated his junior officers by making them take exams on military​

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1862: Served in the Second Battle of Bull Run, Virginia​

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1862: Wounded in the right thigh at the fighting at Brawner's Farm​

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1862 – 1865: Brigadier General Union Army Volunteers​

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1862: Served in the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia​

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1863: Lightly engaged at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia​

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1863: Heavily engaged at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania​

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1863: Had two horses shot from under him at Gettysburg retreat​

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1864: Assumed Division Command at the Battle of Wilderness, Virginia​

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1864: Division Commander during the Overland Campaign​

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1864: Served in the Siege of Petersburg, Virginia​

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1864: Struck in face and badly disfigured Battle of Globe Tavern​

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1864 – 1865: Administrator of the draft in Jackson, Michigan​

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1865: Brevetted to the rank of Major General for his service​

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1865: Resigned from the Union Army on June 30th​​

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Occupation after War:

1865 – 1866: Suffered from Bad Health in Milwaukee, Wisconsin​

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Invalid needing assistance he suffered from his thigh wound​

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1866: Had a small stroke paralyzing his right leg on July 19th​​

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1866: Suffered another stroke causing him to suffer from hemiplegia of his right side​

Died: July 30, 1866

Place of Death: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Cause of Death: Died from the effects of his stroke on July 25th

Age at time of Death: 59 years old

Burial Place: Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

[Tom Elmore]

[At Gettysburg on July 1, 1863] "Gen. Cutler had one horse killed on the railroad and another horse wounded in town. ... [All total on his staff,] there were nine horses killed and wounded during the day." (History of the Seventy-Sixth New York Volunteers, by A. P. Smith)

 

[Pollaco]

He commanded one of the original regiments of what became the Iron Brigade and soon became it's leader.

 

[rpkennedy]

He was John Gibbon's choice to take over the Irom Brigade when Gibbon moved up to division but Solomon Meredith had more political juice and so got the command.

Ryan

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Brig. General Lysander Cutler! Salutes remembering General Cutler on his birthday.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Brig. General Lysander Cutler! Salutes remembering General Cutler on his birthday. When I posted this back in November I had the wrong day for General Cutler's birthday my apologies.

 

[Pollaco]

He commanded one of the original regiments of what became the Iron Brigade and soon became it's leader.

He commanded the Iron Brigade on more than one occassion , Nov-Dec,1862 then again in March-May of 1864 or was that just one of the Regiments of the brigade?

 

[ErnieMac]

He commanded the Iron Brigade on more than one occassion , Nov-Dec,1862 then again in March-May of 1864 or was that just one of the Regiments of the brigade?

It was the entire Iron Brigade in both cases, but only for brief periods of time in 1862.