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While living in Galena, Rowley was a neighbor and good friends with Ulysses Grant and John Rawlins before and at the time the Civil War broke out. Under General Grant he fought in the Battle of Shiloh and during the siege at Vicksburg. He was one of nine Civil War generals that came from Galena.
A sequel to Civil War Generals 2, entitled Civil War Generals 3, was announced by Impressions and Sierra in January 1999. It was set for release in fall of that year, [21] and was designed by Jeffrey Fiske of the original Civil War General and Steve Serafino of Lords of Magic.
Statue by George E. Ganiere at Vicksburg National Military Park. When the Civil War began in 1861, Smith served as an aide de camp to Illinois Governor Richard Yates.On December 26, 1861, he was appointed colonel of the 45th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, with the rank backdated to July 23, 1861, to replace the previous Colonel who resigned his state Commission when the regiment entered ...
Galena's official flag was adopted in 1976 to symbolize mining, agriculture, steamboats, and the nine American Civil War generals who lived in the city. Until the late 1980s, Galena was a small rural farming community.
Ulysses S. Grant (1823–1885), lived in Galena in 1860–1861, in a rented house while he worked at his father and brother's leather shop. [1] After the Civil War, Grant returned to Galena to a hero's welcome on 18 August 1865, and was presented with a furnished home, in which he lived until becoming president in 1869, and which he visited ...
The Ulysses S. Grant Home in Galena, Illinois is the former home of Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general and later the 18th president of the United States.The home was designed by William Dennison [3] and constructed in 1859 - 1860. [2]
He was a Douglas Democrat at the outbreak of the Civil War; a noted public speaker, he gave a notable pro-Union speech at the start of hostilities, and he soon became close friends with Ulysses S. Grant, a Galena resident, United States Military Academy graduate, and Mexican–American War veteran who had served in the Army for 11 years.
He was brevetted a brigadier general for his actions at the Battle of Chickamauga. [1] Smith was badly wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, but survived. [2] When the war ended, Smith returned to Galena and was named Assistant Assessor of the Internal Revenue for Jo Daviess County. Smith left Galena in 1874 to return to Chicago, where he ...