MAJOR GENERAL DON CARLOS BUEL
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Buell, Don Carlos, major-general, was born near Marietta,
Ohio March 23, 1818. He was graduated at West Point in 1841,
and assigned to the 3rd infantry, being raised to 1st
lieutenant June 18, 1846. He served in the war with Mexico,
being brevetted captain for gallant action at Monterey, and
major after Contreras and Churubusco, having received a severe
wound in the latter engagement and was then, from 1848 to
1861, on duty as assistant adjutant-general at Washington and
at various department headquarters. He received a staff
appointment as lieutenant-colonel, May 11, 1861, was
commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers on May 17, being
employed at first in organizing the troops at Washington, and
in Aug. 1861, was given command of a division of the Army of
the Potomac. In Nov., 1861, he superseded Gen. W. T. Sherman
as commander of the Department of the Cumberland, which was
reorganized as the Department of the Ohio, and the campaign in
Kentucky was opened on Dec. 17, 1861, when an attack was begun
upon his pickets at Rowlett station, near Munfordville. Gen
Buell occupied Bowling Green, Feb. 14, 1862, took possession
with a small force of Gallatin, Tenn., on the 23rd, and
entered Nashville two days later. On March 21, 1862, he was
made major-general of volunteers, his department becoming a
part of the Department of the Mississippi under Gen. Halleck,
and on the 6th of April following, his opportune arrival at
Shiloh saved Gen. Grant from disastrous defeat. On June 12,
1862, he took command of the Department of the Ohio, and, upon
the advance of Bragg into Kentucky he was forced to evacuate
Central Tennessee, and make a rapid retreat to Louisville, in
order to save that city, and Cincinnati, which also was
threatened by the Confederates. He arrived at Louisville at
midnight, Sept. 24, amid great excitement, as the inhabitants
had feared that Bragg would get there first. Buell was
ordered to give over his command to Thomas, Sept. 30, but was
reinstated the next day and began a pursuit of the
Confederates. After a week's chase, Bragg halted to give
battle at Perryville, and there the two armies fought an
indecisive battle which lasted from early in the afternoon of
Oct. 8, until dark, with great loss on both sides. On the
next day Bragg retired to Harrodsburg, and thence slowly to
Cumberland gap. Buell's management of this command has been
pronounced masterful by military authorities, but he was
censured by the war department for not pursuing the
Confederates swiftly enough to bring them into action again,
and on Oct. 24, 1862, was ordered to turn over his command to
Gen. Rosecrans. A military committee made a report which was
never published. Gen. Buell was mustered out of the volunteer
service, May 23, 1864, and resigned his commission in the
regular army June 1, 1864. After the war he became
extensively engaged in the iron business in Muhlenburg county,
Ky., and in 1885 was appointed by President Cleveland pension
agent in Kentucky. He died near Rockport, Ky., Nov. 19, 1898.
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