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Civil War Soldiers - Ullman
| Ullman, Daniel, brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Wilmington, Del., April 28, 1810. He was
graduated at Yale, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in New
York city, where, besides building up a large practice, he was for
many years a master in the old court of chancery. In 1851 he was the
Whig candidate for attorney-general, and in 1854 the American (or
"Know-Nothing") candidate for governor. After the firing on Fort
Sumter he raised and led to the field, as colonel, the 77th N. Y.
infantry, which served at Harper's Ferry and in many of the early
movements in the Shenandoah and Piedmont regions. After the battle of
Cedar mountain, and while the Army of Virginia was retreating, he was
prostrated with typhoid fever, left behind, and was captured and
confined in Libby prison. On his liberation he wrote a long letter to
President Lincoln, recommending the emancipation of slaves and the
arming of the freedmen as soldiers. He was commissioned
brigadier-general of volunteers Jan. 13, 1863, ordered to establish
headquarters in New Orleans, and to select and appoint the necessary
white officers for four regiments of colored troops and one regiment
of mounted scouts for duty in Louisiana. He rapidly raised and
equipped five regiments of colored troops, which subsequently grew
into a corps of 17,000 men, and in April following he raised and
organized in New Orleans the Ullman brigade, corps d'Afrique, which in
July was engaged in the siege and capture of Port Hudson. In the
following year he was placed in command of Port Hudson and all the
troops in that district, and he was in chief command at the battle of
Atchafalaya. In March, 1865, he was ordered to Cairo, then to New York
city, where he was brevetted major-general of volunteers and mustered
out of service. After retiring from the army Gen. Ullman also retired
from active life and made his home at Grand View, near Nyack, where he
passed his time in scientific and literary studies, interrupting them
by several trips to Europe. He died in Nyack, N. Y., Sept. 20, 1892.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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