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Civil War Soldiers - Palmer
| Palmer, Innis N., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., March 30, 1824. He was
graduated at the United States military academy in 1846 and served
throughout the Mexican war, where he was wounded at Chapultepec, won
the brevets of 1st lieutenant and captain for gallantry at Contreras,
Churubusco and Chapultepec, and took part in the assault on and
capture of the City of Mexico. He was afterwards on frontier and
recruiting duty, and was promoted major, April 5, 1861, having
attained the intervening grades. He served from April to July, 1861,
in the defenses of Washington, and in the Manassas campaign he
commanded the battalion of United States cavalry at the battle of Bull
Run, winning promotion to brevet lieutenant-colonel by gallantry
there. He was transferred to the 5th cavalry in Aug., 1861, was
commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers on Sept. 23, and
commanded a brigade in the 4th army corps of the Army of the Potomac
during the Virginia Peninsular campaign, being engaged at Yorktown,
Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, and in the Seven Days' battles. He was
subsequently engaged in organizing and forwarding to the field New
Jersey and Delaware troops and in superintending camps of drafted men
at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1862 ; commanded then the 1st division of the
18th army corps in North Carolina from Jan. to July, 1863, the
Department of North Carolina, February to March, the District of
Pamlico, the 18th army corps and the defenses of New Berne, N. C.,
March, 1863, to April, 1864, and then the districts of North Carolina
and Beaufort, N. C., successively until June, 1865. He was promoted
lieutenant-colonel and transferred to the 2nd cavalry, Sept. 23, 1863,
and on March 13, 1865, was brevetted brigadier-general in the regular
army and major-general of volunteers. He was promoted colonel in June,
1868, and commanded his regiment at various posts until retired at his
own request in March, 1879. He died in Chevy Chase, Md., Sept. 10,
1900.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Palmer, John M., major-general, U.S.
Army, was born at Eagle Creek, Scott county, Ky., Sept. 13, 1817. He
removed with his parents to Illinois in 1831, studied law there,
supporting himself meanwhile by manual labor, and in 1839 was admitted
to the bar, practicing subsequently at Carlinville, Ill., until the
Civil war. He supported Martin Van Buren for the presidency, was judge
of the probate court for Macoupin county, Ill., from 1843 to 1847,
member of the state constitutional convention in the latter year,
judge of probate in 1848, county judge from 1849 to 1851, member of
the state senate from 1852 to 1854, and again in 1855, and a delegate
to the Republican national convention in 1856. He was a defeated
Republican candidate for Congress in 1858, and was a Lincoln elector
in 1861. He was elected colonel of the 14th Ill. infantry, May 25,
1861, accompanied Gen. John C. Fremont in his expedition to
Springfield and was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers on Dec.
20. He commanded a division under Gen. Pope at the capture of New
Madrid and Island No. 10, and his brigade at the siege of Corinth, and
was then ordered home, May 29, 1862, on account of sickness. He
organized the 122nd Ill. infantry in August, and on his return to duty
in the field commanded a division in Rosecrans' army at the battle of
Stone's river, where he was promoted major-general of volunteers, and
in the battle of Chickamauga he commanded the 2nd division of the 21st
army corps. He commanded the 14th army corps in the Chattanooga
campaign and the Atlanta campaign until Aug., 1864, when he was
assigned to the military division of Kentucky. There he was military
governor and had charge of the Freedmen's bureau, and was mustered out
of the service, Sept. 1, 1866. Gen. Palmer was Republican governor of
Illinois from 1869-73, actively supported Tilden and Hendricks in
1876, and was the defeated Democratic candidate for United States
senator in 1877 and again in 1883. He was defeated for governor of
Illinois in 1888, and in 1891 was elected as a Democrat to the United
States senate, serving until 1897. He refused to support the free
silver policy of the Democratic party in 1896 and became a candidate
for president of the United States on the Gold Democrat platform with
Simon B. Buckner of Kentucky for vice-president. He gave his influence
to the Republican nominees for the presidency and vice presidency in
1900. Gen. Palmer died in Springfield, Ill., Sept. 25, 1900.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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