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Civil War Soldiers - Hascall
| Hascall, Milo S., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in the state of New York, and during childhood
removed with his parents to Indiana, from which state he was appointed
to the United States military academy at West Point. He entered that
institution of learning in 1848 and graduated with the class of 1852,
being brevetted on July 1 of that year second lieutenant and assigned
to the 3d artillery. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the 2nd
artillery on March 31, 1853, serving in garrison at Fort Adams, R. I,
in 1852-3, and he resigned from the service on Sept. 30, 1853. The
following year he became a railroad contractor in Indiana, and from
1855 to 1861 followed the practice of law in Goshen. He served as
district attorney of Elkhart and La Grange counties, Ind., 1856-58;
was school examiner for Elkhart county, 1859-61, and during the same
years also served as clerk of the county, circuit, and common pleas
courts. In the Civil war he served as aide-de-camp, with the rank of
captain, to Gen. Thomas A. Morris, from April 27 to June 12, 1861.
Upon the latter date he was commissioned colonel and organized the
17th Ind. volunteers, with which he served in the western Virginia
campaign from August to November, having previously been engaged in
the action of Philippi on June 3. He commanded a brigade in the Army
of the Cumberland in the Tennessee campaign from Oct., 1862, to March,
1863, having been commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, April
25, 1862, and he was engaged in the battle of Stone's river, in which
action he commanded a division. He was engaged in collecting
stragglers from the army, throughout the states of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois, from March to June, 1863, was then in command of the
district of Indiana until August; in command of a division in the Army
of the Ohio, in operations in East Tennessee. Aug., 1863, to March,
1864, being engaged in the defense of Knoxville, and numerous
skirmishes ; was in command of the 2nd division of the 23d corps, Army
of the Ohio, in the invasion of Georgia, May 28 to Oct. 27, 1864,
being engaged in numerous actions and skirmishes on the advance to
Atlanta, siege of Atlanta, and occupation of Decatur and vicinity. He
resigned his commission on Oct. 27, 1864, and returned to his home in
Goshen, Ind., where, in 1865, he initiated a successful career as a
banker. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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