Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.))
b. 1809-11-23 d. 1891-04-24
Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier. Princeton, New Jersey, native. Married to Charlotte Van Cleve. Father of Elizabeth Van Cleve, Mortimer Van Cleve, Samuel Van Cleve, Paul Van Cleve, and John Van Cleve. Attended the College of New Jersey in Princeton, New Jersey. Attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York to 1831. Served in the United Stated Army from 1831 to 1836. Farmer in Todd County, Minnesota, in 1860. Served in the 2nd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from July 1861 to March 1862. Served in the Union Army as a brigadier general, lieutenant general, and major general of Volunteers from March 1862 to August 1865. Commander of U.S. Army forces in the Department of the Cumberland from 1862 to 1865.
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Bibliography
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Minnestoa, Todd County, City/District, p. 78.
Ezra J. Warner, General's in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 521-2.
"Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (1809-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial #7442, accessed March 7, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7442.
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Cleve, Horatio Phillips Van. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213278 (November 12, 2026).
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