William McEntyre Dye

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William McEntyre Dye
20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars
Other workChief of Washington, D.C. Police Department
Military advisor to the Emperor of Korea
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William McEntyre Dye (January 26, 1831 – November 13, 1899) was a soldier from the United States who served in military capacities around the world. He became a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, a colonel in the Egyptian army and military adviser to the King of Korea.[1]

Civil War

Dye was born in

4th U.S. Infantry. By 1859 he was the regimental quartermaster.[1]

When the Civil War began in 1861, Dye was a captain in the U.S. Army. However he accepted a commission as colonel of the

20th Iowa Infantry Regiment on August 25, 1862.[2] In 1862 Colonel Dye commanded the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division of the Army of the Frontier. Dye led the brigade at the battle of Prairie Grove where his division was under the overall command of Brig. Gen. Francis J. Herron.[3] The following year, Dye returned to command of his regiment and was part of Herron's division of reinforcements sent to aid the Union army besieging Vicksburg
.

After the fall of Vicksburg, Dye commanded various brigades in the Department of the Gulf. He was in command of a brigade during the

POWs
in the Military Division of West Mississippi.

Egyptian Army

General Dye was mustered out of the volunteer service on July 8, 1865. On Jan 14, 1866 he was promoted to major of the 4th U.S. Infantry but in 1870 he was unassigned and discharged from the U.S. Army. In 1868 Civil War veteran,

William W. Loring and Dye was appointed assistant chief-of-staff under Loring.[5] At the battle of Gura
Dye was wounded in the foot and later was court martialed for hitting another Egyptian officer. The matter remained unresolved and he returned to the United States in 1878.

Dye would write a book about his experience in the Egyptian Army, titled Moslem Egypt and Christian Abyssinia; Or, Military Service Under the Khedive, in his Provinces and Beyond their Borders, as Experienced by the American Staff. It was published in 1880.[4]

Korean government

Dye's grave at Graceland Cemetery

Upon his return to the U.S. Dye served as the Chief of Police in Washington, D.C. In 1888, General

Lee Hak-gyun; however, it was too late.[6] He returned to the United States in 1899 but died the same year in Muskegon, Michigan.[7]

He was buried at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.

References

  1. ^
    provost marshal general
    of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Dakota in 1865.
  2. ^ a b Eicher p.220
  3. ^ Prairie Grove Order of Battle
  4. ^ a b c "Moslem Egypt and Christian Abyssinia; Or, Military Service Under the Khedive, in his Provinces and Beyond their Borders, as Experienced by the American Staff". World Digital Library. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
  5. ^ a b Americans in the Egyptian Army: Dye
  6. ^ ""일본인 폭도가 가슴을 세 번 짓밟고 일본도로 난자했다"". 신동아 (in Korean). November 9, 2004. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  7. ^ "Gen. William McE. Dye Dead. Was Minister of War to the King of Korea. Died in Muskegon" (PDF). New York Times. November 14, 1899. Retrieved May 8, 2021.

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