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Civil War Soldiers - Pope
| Pope, John, major-general, U.S. Army,
was born in Louisville, Ky., March 16, 1822; was graduated at the
United States military academy and appointed a brevet second
lieutenant of topographical engineers in 1842; was promoted second
lieutenant May 9, 1846, first lieutenant March 3, 1853, captain July
1, 1856, brigadier-general July 14, 1862, major-general Oct. 26, 1882,
and was retired March 16, 1886. In the volunteer service he was
commissioned brigadier-general May 17, 1861, promoted major-general
March 21, 1862, and was mustered out Sept. 1, 1866. During his
military career he was brevetted first lieutenant Sept. 23, 1846, for
gallant conduct in the several conflicts at Monterey ; captain, Feb.
23, 1847, for services at the battle of Buena Vista; and
major-general, March 13, 1865, for services at the capture of Island
No. 10. His early service included duty in Florida in 1842-44, in the
survey of the boundary between the United States and the British
provinces, and in the Mexican war. He was in charge of an exploring
expedition in Minnesota in 1849, and proved that the Red river of the
North could be navigated by steamers ; on engineering service in New
Mexico in 1851-53; and had charge of the survey of the route for the
Pacific railroad near the thirty-second parallel in 1853- 59. In 1861
he was one of the officers detailed by the war department to escort
President-elect Lincoln to Washington. His first service in the Civil
war was as commander of the District of northern Missouri, from which
he was transferred successively to the southwestern and the central
districts, and on Dec. 18, 1861, he gained a victory over Gen.
Sterling Price at Blackwater, and forced the Confederates to retreat
below the Osage river. His next detail was as commander of the land
forces that cooperated with Admiral Foote in the operations against
New Madrid and Island No. 10, on the Mississippi. After the occupation
of Corinth he was transferred from the command of the Army of the
Mississippi to that of the Army of Virginia, and for fifteen days in
Aug., 1862, he fought a greatly superior force of Confederates, under
Gen. Lee, at Bristoe Station, Groveton, Manassas Junction, Gainesville
and Germantown, and then fell back to Washington. On Sept. 3 he asked
to be relieved of his command, and soon afterward was appointed to the
command of the Department of the Northwest. He proved efficient in
checking the hostilities of the Indians in Minnesota, and held that
command till 1865, when he was transferred to the military division of
the Missouri, subsequently the Department of Missouri. In Jan., 1866,
he was relieved of this command; in 1867-68 commanded the third
military district, organized under the Reconstruction act of Congress,
comprising the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia; in 1868-70 the
Department of the Lakes ; in 1870-84 the Department of the Missouri ;
and from 1884 till his retirement the Department of the Pacific. He
died in Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. 23, 1892. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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