Morrris County, New Jersey, soldier. New York City, New York County, New York, native. Son of Ellis Potter and Elizabeth Elmer Potter. Graduate of Columbia University in New York City, New York in 1842. Gentleman in Morris County, New Jersey in 1860. Served in the U.S. Army's Commissary Corps as a captain from February 3, 1862 to October 1, 1862. Served in the 1st North Carolina Infantry (U.S.A.) as the lieutenant colonel from October 1, 1862 to November 29, 1862. Promoted to Brigadier General Volunteers on November 29, 1862. Served as the chief of staff of Major General John G. Foster. Resigned on July 24, 1865.

Relationships Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Gustavus Murray Bascom (Franklin County, Ohio, soldier.) Military: Jacob Dolson Cox (Trumbull County, Ohio, attorney, politician, and soldier.) Military: John Gray Foster (Nashua, New Hampshire, major general (U.S.A.)) Military: Ephraim Faris Hays (Pulaski County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA)) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.)

Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General. Illinois native. Son of James Madison Boyle and Sarah Ann Decker Boyle. Married to Jane "Jennie" Porter Looney Boyle in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, on September 17, 1863. Attended school in Edgar County, Illinois, in 1850. Attended Centre College in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1858. Attorney in Edgar County in 1860. Served in the Army of the Ohio (U.S.A.) as assistant adjutant general. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel from August 22, 1862, to August 21, 1863. Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to August 1, 1864.

Relationships Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: William E. Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: Madison Conyers Johnson (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and banker, RR director, pres of UK Law Dept) Political: Madison Conyers Johnson (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and banker, RR director, pres of UK Law Dept) Political: G. T. Spillman (Captain, Franklin County) Military: G. T. Spillman (Captain, Franklin County) Military: Louis W. Little (2nd Regiment Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier) Military: James W. Caperton (Richmond, KY, attorney and soldier) Military: [unknown] Shanks (Major, U.S.A.) Military: Cornelius G. Bradshaw (Douglas County, Illinois, chaplain (U.S.A.)) Military: 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: James W. Weatherford (Colonel in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment ) Economic: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: William W. Woodward (Montgomery County, Ohio, fruit tree producer; 2nd lieut & capt 2nd OH Cav USA; col 116th USCT Inf ) Military: Robert C. Hewett (Louisville, KY, physician ) Military: William Baker Swisher (Kansas Territory physician and soldier) Military: Benjamin F. Howard (Magoffin County, Kentucky, farmer, deputy sheriff; 1st lieut & capt 49th KY Inf USA) Military: John M. Cook (Clay County, KY, farmer; pvt 6th KY Cav US, cpt 49th KY Inf USA, capt 6th KY Cav USA) Military: William T. Bryant (Laurel County, Kentucky farm laborer; 2nd lieut & capt 49th KY Inf USA) Military: Speed Smith Fry (Boyle County, KY, general, abuser of refugee families at Camp Nelson) Military: Walter M. Prentice (Cuyahoga County, Ohio, physician and soldier) Military: Stephen Golden (Knox County, Kentucky, captain 49th KY Inf USA ) Military: Jesse Mattingly (Clay County, KY, farmer;1st lieut 1st Harlan co Battalion and 49th KY Inf USA) Military: Isaac Jones Black (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer; agent, 1st lieut & capt 49th KY Inf USA) Military: Philos Stratton (Madison County, Kentucky artist; adjutant, major, & lt col USA ) Military: 2nd Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Military: William Jackson Atkins (Adair County, Kentucky, farmer. Pvt, sgt, & lieut 13th KY Vol Inf USA) Military: Joseph T. Wheeler (Cincinnati, Ohio farmer and capt 1st KY Inf USA) Military: Leonidas Metcalfe (Nicholas County, KY, farmer and colonel 7th KY Cav (USA)) Military: Richard J. C. Bocking (Indianapolis, Indiana resident and former soldier) Military: Thomas T. Sharp (Covington, KY, capt 7th KY Cav USA) Military: Andrew S. Bloom (Hamilton, Ohio, daguerreotype artist and soldier (52nd OH Inf and 7th KY Cav)) Military: Green Clay Smith (Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: 47th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: United States Army Military: John J. Rose (Mercer County, Kentuck, merchant and soldier - 2nd Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Samuel P. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 1st Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: William H. Norton (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and 2nd lieutenant in 11th Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.)) Military: William E. Riley (Washington County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Ohio attorney, politician, and Secretary of War. Son of David Stanton and Lucy Latham Norman Stanton. Married to Mary A. Lamson Stanton in Franklin County, Ohio, on December 31, 1836. Father of Lucy Lamson Stanton and Edwin Lamson Stanton. Married to Ellen Maria Hutchison Stanton on June 25, 1850. Father of Eleanor A. Stanton, Lewis Hutchinson Stanton, and Bessie B. Stanton. Attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Studied law with Daniel L. Collier. Admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1836. Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1847 to 1856. Attorney in Washington, District of Columbia, from 1856 to 1860. Attorney General of the United States of America from December 1860 to March 1861. Secretary of War of the United States of America from January 1862 to May 1868.

Relationships Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: John A. Brady (Washington County, Kentucky, physician and surgeon. 1st Kentucky Cavalry) Military: Department of the Cumberland Military: United States War Department Military: Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.) Military: United States Army Military: William H. Eifort (Carter County, Kentucky, clerk and1st Lieutenant in Company C, 2nd regiment Kentucky Cavalry. ) Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Political: United States War Department Military: Catharinus P. Buckingham (Ohio, manufacturer and Union general) Military: Joseph Holt (Washington, D.C., Judge Advocate General (U.S.A.)) Military: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: Military Board of Kentucky Military: Samuel F. Johnson (Leavenworth Count, Kansas, druggist and soldier) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Joseph K. Pitts (Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer; sergeant 16th Ky Inf (U.S.A.)) Military: 8th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A.) Military: Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A) Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Arthur Erenburgh (Allegheny County, PA, engineer, lieut. 1st Ky Ind. Battery & 1st Ky Inf USA) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: James Barnet Fry (Union Provost Marshal General) Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: 47th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: 13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav) Political: United States Army Political: Government of the United States of America Political: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Political: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Government of the United States of America Military: 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Jacob Cozatt (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and miller. ) Military: William Perry Pierce (Garrard County, Kentucky, soldier - Cpt. 11th + 12th Ky. Cav.) Military: Presley F. Hansbrough (Grant County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier - Capt. 11th Ky. Cav.) Military: Paymaster Department Political: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Stanford, Kentucky, native. Married to Maria Antoinett Rousseau. Admitted to the bar in 1841. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana from 1844 to 1845. Served in the U.S.-Mexican War as a captain. Member of the the Senate of the State of Indiana from 1847 to 1849. Practiced law in Louisville after 1849. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1861. Confirmed as a notary public for Jefferson County, Kentucky, on February 5, 1861. Resigned his position in the Kentucky Legislature to raise troops for the Union. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from September 9, 1861, until promoted to brigadier general on October 5, 1861. Promoted to major general on October 22, 1862. Commanded a division in the Army of the Ohio and in the Army of the Cumberland until November 17, 1865. Elected as an unconditional Unionist to the 39th United States Congress and served from March 4, 1865, to July 21, 1866.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: F. B. Russell (Louisville, Kentucky, petitioner) Military: Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A) Military: John Gray Foster (Nashua, New Hampshire, major general (U.S.A.)) Military: United States War Department Military: 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Pulaski County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier. Pulaski County, Kentucky, native. Son of Charles Hays and Pamelia Hays. Resident of Pulaski County in 1850. Laborer in Pulaski County in 1860. Served in the 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a first lieutenant and adjutant from September 26, 1861 to September 25, 1864. Mustered out on September 25, 1864.

Relationships Military: 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Nashua, New Hampshire, major general. Whitefield, New Hampshire, native. Graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1847. Breveted a second lieutenant of Engineers. Served in Mexican-American War from 1847 to 1848. Worked on coastal survey office and as assistant to professor of engineering at West Point from 1855 to 1857. Worked on the construction of Fort Sumter in 1858. Commissioned as a full captain of engineers on July 1, 1860. Appointed brigadier general of U.S. Volunteers on October 23, 1861. Commanded the Department of North Carolina from July 1, 1862, to July 13, 1863. Breveted a major general of U.S. Volunteers on July 18, 1863. Commanded the Department of Ohio from December 12, 1863, to July 9, 1864.

Relationships Military: William M. Haley (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: Robert Morrow (Knoxville, TN, asst adjt gen'l to Gen JG Foster) Military: James R. Howard (Lebanon, Ky, sgt 1st Ky Cav & captain 13th Ky Cav USA) Military: William Perkins (1st ky cavalry regiment) Military: John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.) Military: James H. Loh (Boyd County, Kentucky, 1st lieut, 45th Ky Mtd InfUSA) Military: United States War Department Military: Henry Curtis, Jr. (Assistant Adjutant General under General J.G. Foster. )

Trumbull County, Ohio, attorney, politician, and soldier. Native of Montreal, Lower Canada. Son of Jacob Dolson Cox and Thedia Redelia Kenyon Cox. Married to Helen Clarissa Finney Cochran Cox in Lorain County, Ohio, on November 26, 1849. Father of Helen Finney Cox Black, Jacob Dolson Cox, D.C. Cox, Kenyon Cox, Charles Norton Cox, and Brewster Cox. Tinner in Lorain County, Ohio, in 1850. Graduate of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Lorain County, Ohio in 1851. Admitted to the Ohio Bar Association in 1853. Attorney in Trumbull County, Ohio in 1860. Served in the Ohio State Senate as a Republican from 1860 to 1862. Served in the U.S. Army as Brigadier General of Volunteers and Major General of Volunteers from May 17, 1861 through December 31, 1865. Served as a division commander in the Union Army's IX and XXIII Corps.

Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, soldier. Ohio native. Son of William T. Bascom and Emily Bascom. Resident of Franklin County, Ohio, in 1850. Graduate of Norwich University in Northfield, Washington County, Vermont in 1860. Served as aid-de-camp, Ohio Volunteers (U.S.A), as a captain from April 23, 1861 to August 15, 1861. Served as an assistant adjutant general of volunteers (U.S.A.) as a captain, major, and lieutenant colonel from August 20, 1861 through December 31, 1865.

Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, attorney and soldier. Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, native. Son of Charles Willcox and Almira Rood Willcox. Married to Marie L. Farnsworth Willcox. Father of Mary L. Willcox, Elon F. Willcox, Grace N. Willcox, and Elmira Willcox. Graduated from the United States Mililitary Academy at West Point, Orange County, New York in 1847. Served in the 4th United States Artillery Regiment as a second lieutenant and first lieutenant from July 1, 1847 to September 10, 1857. Served in the Mexican-American and Third Seminole Wars. Attorney in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, in 1860. Employed Margarett McDonald and Elisabeth Thompson as domestic servants in Detroit, Wayne County, in 1860. Served in the 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment as the colonel from May 1, 1861-July 21, 1861. Wounded at the Battle of First Bull Run, Virginia, on July 21, 1861. Captured at Battle of First Bull Run, Virginia, on July 21, 1861. Prisoner of war at Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina from July 21, 1861 to August 17, 1862. Exchanged on August 17, 1862. Promoted to Brigadier General of Volunteers to date from July 21, 1861. Commanded a Division in the Union Army's IX Corps from September 1862 to April 1865. Promoted Brevet Major General of Volunteers to date from August 1, 1864. Commanded the District of Washington, North Carolina from April 1865 to July 1865. Commanded the District of Michigan from August1865 through December 31, 1865.