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Hugh Boyle Ewing (Ohio attorney & Union General)

b. 1826-10-31 d. 1905-06-30

Ohio attorney and soldier. Ohio native. Son of Thomas Ewing. Attended the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1844 to 1848. Attorney with his brother, Thomas Ewing, and foster brother, William Tecumsah Sherman, in St. Louis, Missouri. Attorney in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Returned to Ohio in 1858. Appointed to the staff of Ohio Governor William Dennison in May 1861. Served in the 30th Ohio Volunteer Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from August 1861. Promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on November 29, 1862. Commanded the post of Louisville, Kentucky, from February 1863. Mustered out of the service in 1866.

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Bibliography

Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series M123, Fairfield County, Hocking Township, Ohio, p. 1.

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), 146-47.

"Ewing, Hugh Boyle," Ohio, Soldiers Grave Registration Cards, 1804-1958, page 1 of 1 on microfilm (accessed via Fold3.com).

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Ewing, Hugh Boyle. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201415 (November 12, 2026).

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