Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios -  General Darius N. Couch

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                                   COUCH
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   COUCH, GENERAL DARIUS N., served with great distinction in the armies
   of the East in 1862 and 1863. He led a division on the Peninsula, and
   at Fair Oaks, when surprised by the Confederates, extricated his line
   with great skill. At the battle of Malvern Hill he had command of the
   forces most active in repulsing the Confederate assults. He succeeded
   General Sumner at the head of the Second Corps, and upon his shoulders
   devolved the command of the Army of the Potomac when Hooker was
   disabled by a wound at Chancellorsville. His conduct in handling the
   army throughout that crisis, and saving it from destruction, brought
   his name before the councils at Washington as a successor to Hooker,
   when that general was relieved. He did not covet the responsibility
   and it fell to Meade. During the Gettysburg campaign Couch held a
   command in Pennsylvania, and assisted in organizing the militia forces
   to aid in repelling the invaders. He personally led the first of these
   troops against the enemy striking him north of Gettysburg.
   Soon after Gettysburg Couch was transferred to the West, where he
   commanded a division of the Twenty-third Corps. At the head of that
   division he fought at the battle of Nashville, under Thomas, and
   afterward led it in the operations on the coast of North Carolina.
   Personally, he was very popular with his military associates, and a
   great favorite with the soldiers of his command.