Charles Ewing (general)

For other people named Charles Ewing, see Charles Ewing (disambiguation).

Charles Ewing
General Charles Ewing
Born	March 6, 1835(1835-03-06) Lancaster, Ohio
Died	June 20, 1893(1893-06-20) (aged 58) Washington, D.C.
Allegiance	United States of America Union
Service/branch	United States Army Union Army
Years of service	1861 – 1867
Rank	Brigadier General
Battles/wars	American Civil War *Battle of Shiloh *Battle of Vicksburg *Atlanta Campaign *Battle of Bentonville
Other work	Lawyer

Charles Ewing, (March 6, 1835 – June 20, 1893) was an attorney and Union Army general during the American Civil War. He was the son of Interior Secretary Thomas Ewing, the brother of Thomas Ewing, Jr. and Hugh Boyle Ewing, and the foster brother & brother-in-law of William T. Sherman. Ewing's sister and Sherman's wife was Ellen Ewing Sherman.

Early life and career

He was educated at the Dominican College, and at the University of Virginia. He studied law, was admitted to practice and was so engaged at St. Louis, Missouri, when the civil war occurred.

Civil War

He then joined the U.S. Army and was commissioned in 1861 captain in the 13th infantry, of which William T. Sherman, his brother-in-law, was colonel, and was appointed inspector-general on the staff of General Sherman, when in command of the western army.

At the Battle of Vicksburg he planted the flag of his battalion on the parapet of the Confederate fort, and received in the accomplishment a severe wound. For this action he was brevetted major in 1863; for his action at Jackson, Colliersville and Missionary Ridge and in the Atlanta campaign he was made lieutenant-colonel by brevet in 1864, and for gallant conduct in the march to the sea and thence through the Carolinas to Washington he was brevetted colonel in 1865. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers, March 8, 1865.

Postbellum career

In 1867 General Ewing resigned his commission in the army, and opened a successful law practice in Washington, D.C.. Beginning in 1874, he served as the Catholic Commissioner for Indian Missions (later known as the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions), which involved defending Roman Catholic mission interests and Native American rights. Based on its prior missionary initiatives the Catholic Church felt justified to operate schools at 34 of the 72 agencies, but the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant allowed them at only seven. Ewing served as Catholic Commissioner until his death in Washington on June 20, 1883.^[1]

See also

	Biography portal
	United States Army portal
	American Civil War portal

• List of American Civil War generals
• Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions

Notes

1. ^ "Directors of the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions: 1. Reverend John Baptiste Abraham Brouillet, 1874-1884, pp. 5-8, by Kevin Abing, 1994". Marquette University. http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/Mss/BCIM/BCIMsc1-directors1.pdf. Retrieved March 24, 2010. 

References

• The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans Vols. I-X (4). Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904.

External links

• Photos of General Ewing at generalsandbrevts.com
• Ewing Family History Pages
• Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Records at Marquette University.
• Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions Digital Image Collection at Marquette University; keyword: general ewing.

Persondata
Name	Ewing, Charles
Alternative names
Short description	Union Army General
Date of birth	March 6, 1835
Place of birth	Lancaster, Ohio
Date of death	June 20, 1893
Place of death	Washington DC