★ ★ Dana, Napoleon J. T.

Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana​

Born: April 15, 1822

Birthplace: Eastport, Maine

Father: Nathaniel Giddings Dana 1797 – 1833

Mother: Mary Ann Langdon Harris 1801 – 1868

(Buried: Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire)​

Wife: Susan Lewis "Sue" Sandford 1822 – 1904

(Buried: Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire)​

Children:

Mary Langdon Dana Tidball 1846 – 1904​

(Buried: U.S. Military Academy Post Cemetery, West Point, New York)​

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Charles Peaslee Dana 1849 – 1880​

(Buried: Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire)​

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Dr. Alfred Sandford Dana 1851 – 1901​

(Buried: Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire)​

Education:

1842: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (29th​ in class)​

Occupation before War:

1842 – 1847: 2nd​ Lt. United States Army, 7th​ Infantry Regiment​

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1842 – 1843: Garrison Duty at Fort Pike, Louisiana​

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1846: Served in the Defense of Fort Brown​

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1847 – 1851: 1st​ Lt. United States Army, 7th​ Infantry Regiment​

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1847: Brevetted Captain for Gallantry Battle of Cerro Gordo​

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1848 – 1855: Captain and Assistant Quartermaster for U.S. Army​

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1855: Resigned from United States Army on May 1st​​

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1855 – 1861: Banker in Saint Paul, Minnesota​

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1857 – 1861: Brigadier General of Minnesota State Militia​

Civil War Career:

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1861 – 1862: Colonel of 1st​ Minnesota Infantry Regiment​

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1861: Guarded Potomac ferries between D.C. and Harpers Ferry​

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1861 – 1862: Served Guarded Potomac Ferries in Shenandoah​

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1862: Brigadier General Union Army Infantry​

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1862: Served in the Virginia Peninsular Campaign​

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1862: Served in the Battle of South Mountain​

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1862: Wounded in the leg at the Battle of Antietam, Maryland​

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1862 – 1865: Major General Union Army Volunteers​

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1862: Sick with fever and rheumatism​

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1863: Commander of Defenses of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania​

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1863: Commander of Operations Department of the Gulf​

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1863: Commander of expedition to the Rio Grande​

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1863 – 1864: Commander of 13th​ Army Corps in the Union Army​

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1864: Commander of the District of Vicksburg, Mississippi​

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1864: Commander of District of Western Tennessee​

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1864 – 1865: Commander of Department of Mississippi​

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1865: Resigned from Union Army on May 27th​​

Occupation after War:

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1866 – 1871: General Agent American – Russian Commercial Company​

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1872 – 1878: Superintendent of railroads in Illinois​

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1878: Superintendent of Chicago, Burlington, Quincy Railroad Co.​

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1878 – 1881: Commissioner in charge of Railroad Pools in St. Louis​

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President of Montana and Union Railway Company​

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1894 – 1905: Listed on list of retired Army officers as Captain​

Died: July 15, 1905

Place of Death: Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Cause of Death: Apoplexy

Age at time of Death: 83 years old

Burial Place: Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday (Friday) Major General Napoleon J. T. Dana! Salutes remembering General Dana on his birthday week.

 

[rpkennedy]

I suppose that a career in the military was inevitable with that name.

Ryan

 

[Pollaco]

It was by a special act of Congress in 1894 that he was recommissioned as an captain and assistant quartermaster in the army.Then placed on the retirement list.

 

[ErnieMac]

How did the general get his name? Article from the 27 Nov 1893 edition of the St. Paul (MN) Globe.