Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios -  General Edward Hatch

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                               Surname: HATCH
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   HATCH, GEN. EDWARD, born in Bangor, Me., December 22, 1832. I April,
   1861, he was a member of the District of Columbia Volunteers, who were
   enlisted to defend the national capital, and subsequently had charge
   of the camp of instruction at Davenport, Ia. He was commissioned
   captain in the Second Iowa Cavalry August 12, 1861; major, September
   5th, and lieutenant colonel, December 11th, the same year. He
   commanded his regiment at New Madrid, Island No. 10, the battle of
   Corinth, the raid on Booneville and the battle of Iuka. He was
   promoted colonel, June 13, 1862, and commanded a brigade of cavalry in
   General Grant's Mississippi campaign. He was afterward placed at the
   head of the cavalry division of the Army of the Tennessee and was
   present at the various engagements in which it took part. He was
   disabled by wounds in December, 1863, and on April 27, 1864, was made
   brigadier general. Under General A. J. Smith, and still in command of
   a cavalry division, he was engaged in the battles of Franklin (for
   bravery in which he was brevetted brigadier general in the regular
   service) and Nashville, and in the pursuit of Hood's Confederate Army.
   For gallantry at Nashville he was, in 1864, brevetted major-general of
   volunteers, and three years later promoted to the same rank by brevet
   in the United States Army. On January 15, 1866, he was honorably
   mustered out of the volunteer service, and on July 6th following he
   was promoted colonel of the Ninth United States Cavalry.