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Civil War Soldiers - Denver
| Denver, James W., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Winchester, Va., May 28, 1817, removed to Ohio
in 1830, studied at the Cincinnati law school, in which he was
graduated, and practiced law and edited a local Democratic paper in
Xenia. Removing thence to Platte county, Mo., he was appointed captain
of Company H, 12th U. S. infantry, in March, 1847, and served in the
war with Mexico until its close, participating in the battles of
Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, Chapultepec and the Garetas. In
1850 he moved to California, locating in Weaverville, and he served as
state senator, secretary of state, and representative in Congress,
1855-57, where he was chairman of the committee on the Pacific
railroad. He was subsequently commissioner of Indian affairs, but
resigned this office to become governor of the territory of Kansas,
which then included Colorado. The city of Denver was named for him. He
resigned this latter office in 1858 to become again commissioner of
Indian affairs, and on Aug. 14, 1861, President Lincoln appointed him
brigadier-general of volunteers. He served in this capacity about two
years, resigning in 1863. He was for some time in Kansas, was then
ordered to report to Gen. Halleck at Pittsburg landing, Tenn., and
advanced thence to Corinth, Miss., where he had command of all the
railroads in that section, his force increasing to 30,000 men. After
his resignation he practiced law at Washington, and at Wilmington,
Ohio, where he also had a large farm. Gen. Denver died in Washington,
D. C, Aug. 9, 1892. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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