Oliver Otis Howard
Born: November 8, 1830
Birthplace: Leeds, Maine
Father: Rowland Bailey Howard 1795 – 1840
(Buried: Leeds Center Cemetery, Leeds, Maine)
Stepfather: Colonel John Gilmore 1790 – 1864
(Buried: Union Cemetery, Leeds, Maine)
Mother: Eliza Otis 1804 – 1888
(Buried: Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago, Illinois)
Wife: Elizabeth A. Waite 1832 – 1911
(Buried: Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, Vermont)
Married: February 14, 1855 in Portland, Maine
Children:
Major Guy Howard 1855 – 1899
(Buried: Prospect Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Nebraska)
Grace Ellen Howard Gray 1857 – 1949
(Buried: River View Cemetery, Portland, Oregon)
Chancey Otis Howard 1863 – 1934
(Buried: Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, Vermont)
Harry Stinson Howard 1869 – 1960
(Buried: Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, Vermont)
Elizabeth Ann Howard Bancroft 1871 – 1941
(Buried: Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware)
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Education:
Attended Monmouth Academy in Monmouth, Maine
1850: Graduated from Bowdoin College
1854: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (4th in class)
Occupation before War:
1854 – 1855: Brevet 2nd Lt. United States Army, Ordinance
1855 – 1857: 2nd Lt. United States Army, Ordinance
1857 – 1861: 1st Lt. United States Army, Ordinance
1857 – 1861: Assistant Math Professor, West Point Military Academy
1861: Resigned from United States Army on June 7th
Civil War Career:
1861: Colonel of 3rd Maine Volunteers Infantry Regiment
1861: Temporarily Commanded a Brigade at 1st Battle of Bull Run
1861 – 1862: Brigadier General Union Army, Volunteers
1862: Participated in the Virginia Peninsula Campaign
1862: Builder of Wharves and Roads during Peninsula Campaign
1862: Wounded twice Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia
1862: Wounded in right arm causing amputation of right arm
1862: Participated in the Battle of Centreville, Virginia
1862: Covered the retreat to Washington, D.C.
1862: Brigade Commander at Battle of Antietam, Maryland
1862 – 1869: Major General Union Army, Volunteers
1862: Participated in the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia
1863: Commander of 11th Army Corps Army of the Potomac
1863: Corps Commander at Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
1863: Corps Commander at Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1863 – 1864: Commander of 11th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland
1863: Corps Commander Battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee
1864 – 1865: Commander Army of the Tennessee
1864: Led his troops in the Atlanta, Georgia Campaign
1864: Wounded during Battle of Pickett’s Mill, Georgia
1864: Leader of right-Wing during Sherman’s march to the sea
1864: Served in the fighting at Griswoldville, Georgia
1864 – 1886: Brigadier General United States Army
1865: Leader of right-Wing during Carolina’s Campaign
1865 – 1874: United States Commissioner of Freedmen’s Bureau
1869: Mustered out of volunteer service on January 1st
Occupation after War:
1864 – 1886: Brigadier General United States Army
1865 – 1874: United States Commissioner of Freedmen’s Bureau
Leader in the founding of Howard University
1872: Special Indian Commissioner to hostile Apaches in N.M. Terr.
1874 – 1881: Commander U.S. Army, Department of Columbia
1877: Served against hostile Nez Perces Indians led by Chief Joseph
1881 – 1882: Superintendent of West Point Military Academy
1882 – 1886: Commander U.S. Army, Department of the Platte
1884: Made Chevalier of Honor by the French Government
1886 – 1894: Major General United States Army
1886 – 1888: Commander U.S. Army, Department of California
1888 – 1894: Commander U.S. Army, Department of the East
1893: Recipient of Medal of Honor for role at Battle of Fair Oaks, VA.
1894: Retired from United States Army on November 8th
Visited Soldiers camps during Spanish American War
Delegate of Army and Navy Christian Commission
President American Tract Society
President Congregational Home Missionary Society
Author of Autobiography and Life Among Hostile Indians
Lecturer on his experiences in the Army
Died: October 26, 1909Place of Death: Burlington, Vermont
Cause of Death: Stroke
Age at time of Death: 78 years old
Burial Place: Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, Vermont
Medal of Honor Citation | The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Brigadier General Oliver Otis Howard, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 1 June 1862, while serving with U.S. Volunteers, in action at Fair Oaks, Virginia. Brigadier General Howard led the 61st New York Infantry in a charge in which he was twice severely wounded in the right arm, necessitating amputation. |
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