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Civil War Soldiers - Grover
| Grover, Cuvier, brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Bethel, Me., July 24, 1829, and was graduated
at West Point in 1850. He saw his first service in the west and rose
to captain before the outbreak of the Civil war. On April 14, 1862,
having previously been called east to the defense of Washington, he
was made brigadier-general of volunteers and was assigned to the
command of the 1st brigade, 2nd division, 3d army corps, Army of the
Potomac. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel in the regular
establishment for gallantry at Williamsburg, and colonel for service
at Fair Oaks, was then transferred with his brigade to Pope's army,
where he distinguished himself in a brilliant bayonet charge, in
which, after a hand-to-hand struggle which lasted over an hour, his
men were obliged to fall back before a superior force. Being
transferred to the Department of the Gulf, he took charge of the 4th
division of the 19th corps, with which he took possession of Baton
Rouge, and in the siege of Port Hudson he commanded the right wing of
Gen. Banks' army. He held the right of the 2nd corps in the first line
of battle at Winchester and charged the enemy with great bravery, and
again distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry at Fisher's hill
and Cedar creek, being wounded at the latter battle and brevetted on
the same day major-general of volunteers for gallantry at Winchester
and Fisher's hill. On March 13, 1865, he was given the brevet rank of
brigadier-general and major-general in the regular army in recognition
of gallant and meritorious services in the field. Gen. Grover was
mustered out of the volunteer service, Aug. 24, 1865, and subsequently
served on frontier and garrison duty, rising to the rank of colonel of
the 1st cavalry, Dec. 2, 1875. He died in Atlantic City, N. J., June
6, 1885. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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