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Samuel Davis Sturgis (Brigadier General and Chief of Cavalry for Department of Ohio���)

b. 1822-06-11 d. 1889-09-28

U.S. Army soldier​. Pennsylvania native. Married to Jerusha Wilcox Sturgis. Father of Nina J. Sturgis, James G. Sturgis, Ella M. Sturgis, Mary T. Sturgis, and Samuel Davis Sturgis, Jr. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1846. Commissioned as a brevet second lieutenant in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Served as a lieutenant of dragoons in the U.S.-Mexican War. Promoted to first lieutenant and captain after the war. Selected as major of the 1st​ Cavalry Regiment​ (U.S.A.) when the Civil War commenced. Promoted to brigadier general for the Department of Ohio on August 10, 1861. Served as chief of cavalry for the Department of Ohio​ from December 13, 1863, to April 10, 1864.

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Bibliography

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kansas, Leavenworth County, Fort Leavenworth Reservation, p. 196A.

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 486-487.

John H. & David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), 863.

Find A Grave, "Samuel Davis Sturgis (1822-1889)," Memorial #6522, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6522 (accessed July 6, 2020).

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Sturgis, Samuel Davis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212683 (November 12, 2026).

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