About: John Morrison Oliver   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/57M61t8UhqnTfVDn1WHt-A==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

John Morrison Oliver was a Union general during the Civil War. He fought in many of the battles involving the Army of the Tennessee, occasionally commanding a brigade. Oliver graduated from St. John's College in New York. He moved to Michigan and worked as a pharmacist. When the Civil War began he joined the 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry as a private. He rose to captain in that regiment before being appointed colonel of the 15th Michigan on March 13, 1865. He led his regiment at Shiloh and commanded the 2nd Brigade, 6th Division during the siege and battle of Corinth. He returned to command the 15th Michigan during the siege of Vicksburg where he was part of the XVI Corps. He briefly commanded the 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XV Corps and was transferred to Chattanooga in the wake of Ulyss

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • John Morrison Oliver
rdfs:comment
  • John Morrison Oliver was a Union general during the Civil War. He fought in many of the battles involving the Army of the Tennessee, occasionally commanding a brigade. Oliver graduated from St. John's College in New York. He moved to Michigan and worked as a pharmacist. When the Civil War began he joined the 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry as a private. He rose to captain in that regiment before being appointed colonel of the 15th Michigan on March 13, 1865. He led his regiment at Shiloh and commanded the 2nd Brigade, 6th Division during the siege and battle of Corinth. He returned to command the 15th Michigan during the siege of Vicksburg where he was part of the XVI Corps. He briefly commanded the 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XV Corps and was transferred to Chattanooga in the wake of Ulyss
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
serviceyears
  • 1861(xsd:integer)
Birth Date
  • 1828-09-06(xsd:date)
Commands
  • 15(xsd:integer)
Branch
  • Union Army
death place
Name
  • John Morrison Oliver
placeofburial label
  • Place of burial
Birth Place
  • Penn Yan, New York
death date
  • 1872-03-30(xsd:date)
Rank
  • 35(xsd:integer)
Allegiance
Battles
laterwork
  • pharmacist, lawyer, post office superintendent
abstract
  • John Morrison Oliver was a Union general during the Civil War. He fought in many of the battles involving the Army of the Tennessee, occasionally commanding a brigade. Oliver graduated from St. John's College in New York. He moved to Michigan and worked as a pharmacist. When the Civil War began he joined the 4th Michigan Volunteer Infantry as a private. He rose to captain in that regiment before being appointed colonel of the 15th Michigan on March 13, 1865. He led his regiment at Shiloh and commanded the 2nd Brigade, 6th Division during the siege and battle of Corinth. He returned to command the 15th Michigan during the siege of Vicksburg where he was part of the XVI Corps. He briefly commanded the 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, XV Corps and was transferred to Chattanooga in the wake of Ulysses Grant's victory there in 1863. Oliver was back in command of his regiment during William T. Sherman's preparations for the advance against Atlanta, but once the campaign got underway Oliver was in command of the 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, XV Corps. He briefly led the 1st Brigade, 4th Division at the battle of Jonesborough. During the March to the Sea, Oliver commanded the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, XV Corps. His was one of the brigades which assaulted Fort McAllister in December. On January 12, 1865 he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers. He was at the battle of Bentonville, though his brigade did not see much action. He received a brevet promotion to major general of volunteers on March 13, 1865 and was in command of the 2nd Division, XV Corps at the close of the war. He was mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24, 1865. Following the Civil War he moved to Arkansas where he practiced law and became the post office superintendent in Little Rock.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software