Jacob Ammen

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Jacob Ammen
United States of America
Union
Service/branchUnited States Army
Union Army
Years of service1831–1837, 1861–1865
RankBrigadier General
Commands held4th Division, XXIII Corps
Camp Douglas
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War
RelationsDaniel Ammen
Other workCollege professor, civil engineer

Jacob Ammen (January 7, 1806 – February 6, 1894) was a college professor, civil engineer, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. His younger brother, Daniel Ammen, was an admiral in the United States Navy.

Early life and career

Ammen was born in

Nullification Crisis
.

Resigning from the Army in 1837, Ammen taught mathematics at Bacon College (now called Transylvania University), afterwards teaching in Jefferson College.[2] From 1840 through 1843, he served as Chair of the Mathematics Department at Indiana University. He later taught again in Kentucky and Missouri, before moving in November 1855 to Ripley, Ohio, to work as a civil engineer.[1]

Civil War

Within a week after the

24th Ohio Infantry. After training at Camp Chase, Ammen's regiment was sent in late July to serve in western Virginia, seeing their first combat at the Battle of Cheat Mountain
.

Shipped to the

Western Theater, Ammen led a brigade in the Army of the Ohio at the Battle of Shiloh and the Siege of Corinth. Ammen was promoted to brigadier general on July 16, 1862.[2] In August, Ammen assumed the division command vacated by William "Bull" Nelson, who had been given a new command and sent to defend Richmond, Kentucky
.

When his health deteriorated, Ammen then performed administrative duty for nearly a year, commanding

Saltville raid. Shortly before the end of the war, he resigned in January 1865 and returned home.[1]

Postbellum career

Ammen was a surveyor and civil engineer in Hamilton County, Ohio, then he purchased a farm near Beltsville, Maryland, in 1872. Two years later, he was involved in determining possible routes for the proposed Panama Canal. He served on the board of visitors at West Point in 1875. He retired to Wyoming, Ohio, near Cincinnati.

Becoming blind in his elderly years, he moved in with his son in

Cincinnati.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^
    OCLC 657162692
  2. ^ a b Johnson, Rossiter (1906). "Ammen, Jacob" . The Biographical Dictionary of America . Vol. 1. pp. 106–107 – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ "Judge Civil War Generals" (PDF). The Spring Grove Family. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 29, 2015. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
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