Charles Ewing (General)

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name=Charles Ewing
born= birth date|1835|3|6
died= death date and age|1893|6|20|1835|3|6
placeofbirth= Lancaster, Ohio, U.S.
placeofdeath= Washington DC, U.S.
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caption=General Charles Ewing
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allegiance=United States of America
branch= United States Army
serviceyears=1861 – 1865
rank= Brigadier General (Civil War)
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battles= American Civil War *Battle of Shiloh *Battle of Vicksburg *Atlanta Campaign *Battle of Bentonville
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laterwork=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 he resigned his commission in the army, and opened a successful law practice in Washington, D.C., where he died June 20, 1883.

ee also

References

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

External links

* [http://generalsandbrevets.com/nge/ewingc.htm Photos of General Ewing at generalsandbrevts.com]
* [http://www.sandcastles.net/ Ewing Family History Pages]

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