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                                   BUELL
                                      
             Posted by Ruth Price Waldbauer on Mon, 22 Feb 1999
                                      
                               Surname: BUELL
                                      
   p.579
   BUELL, GEN. DON CARLOS, born near Marietta, Ohio, March 23, 1818.
   Graduated at West Point, as first lieutenant, June 18, 1846. Brevetted
   captain at Monterey, and major at Contreras. Assistant
   adjutant-general at Washington, 1848-49. Made lieutenant-colonel May
   11, 1861, and brigadier-general of volunteers, May 17, 1861. Assigned
   to a division in Army of the Potomac. Succeeded Sherman in Department
   of Cumberland. Made major-general of volunteers, March 21, 1862.
   Reinforced Grant at battle of Shiloh. Assumed command of district of
   Ohio, June 12, 1862. Retreated to Louisville before Bragg's advance.
   Fought at Perryville, October 8, 1862. Transferred to department of
   the Gulf. Resigned his command, June 1, 1864. Became president of
   Green River Iron Wroks, and subsequently held post of pension agent in
   Kentucky.
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