Marcellus M. Crocker
Marcellus Monroe Crocker | |
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United States of America Union | |
Service/ | United States Army Union Army |
Years of service | 1861 - 1865 |
Rank | Brigadier General |
Commands held | 4th Division, XVII Corps |
Battles/wars | American Civil War |
Marcellus Monroe Crocker (February 6, 1830 – August 26, 1865) was a general in the
Biography
Crocker was born in Franklin, Indiana. He entered the United States Military Academy in 1847, but left at the end of his second year. He subsequently studied law and practiced in Des Moines, Iowa.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered the army as the
The following year, he participated in the
Throughout his military career Crocker suffered from
In late summer Crocker reported to the War Department, but his health continued to decline, and he died at Willard's Hotel on August 26, 1865, in Washington, D.C.[5] He is buried in Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa.[6]
Honors
Crocker School, that stood in Des Moines on the North side of School St. between Sixth Ave. and Seventh St. from 1870 until ca. 1962, was named after him, as is the city's present-day Crocker Street.
A bronze bust of General Crocker stands on the Vicksburg National Military Park.
See also
Notes
- ^ National Archives, RG 94, Entry 297, Letters Received, 1863-1894, M1064, C733, M. M. Croker to Lorenzo Thomas, January 1, 1864; M. M. Crocker to Edwin M. Stanton, May 14, 1864
- ^ National Archives, RG 94, Entry 297, Letters Received, 1863-1894, M1064, C733, M. M. Crocker to Edwin M. Stanton, June 10, 1864; M. M. Crocker to Lorenzo Thomas, January 1, 1864
- ^ National Archives, RG 94, Entry 297, Letters Received, 1863-1894, M1064, C733,U. S. Grant to Henry W. Halleck, December 28, 1864
- ^ National Archives, RG 94, Entry 297, Letters Received, 1863-1894, M1064, C733,Grenville M. Dodge to John A. Rawlins, April 22, 1865; James A. Hardie to Grenville M. Dodge, April 25, 1865
- ^ National Archives, RG 94, Entry 297, Letters Received, 1863-1894, M1064, C733,Samuel F. Chalfin to Messieurs Skyes and Chadwick, November 11, 1865
- OCLC 296752419. Retrieved May 11, 2017 – via Google Books.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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