Benjamin Devor Dean;
Col. Dean was born in Dark county, Ohio, October 7, 1828. His father emigrated from New Jersey to Ohio, in an early day and he served as an officer in the war of 1812.
In 1861, he raised a company of the 26th Missouri Volunteers, of which he was made captain.
At the battle of Iuka, in Northern Mississippi, in 1862, he was three times wounded. After the battle was over, the Colonel of the regiment said, "Captain Dean, it was your bravery and skill upon the field of battle that saved the honor of my regiment," Captain Dean was in the long and bloody seige of Vicksburg, being the first man in three thousand to cross the Confederate Redoubts in one of the terrific charges that marked this long and sanguinary struggle. He was at the terrible battle of Lookout Mountain, and a short time afterwards Governor Gamble commissioned him a colonel. A short time afterwards he was given the command of a brigade. He served until in the spring of '65, at Savannah he was mustered out and once more became a private citizen.
Col. Dean was born in Dark county, Ohio, October 7, 1828. His father emigrated from New Jersey to Ohio, in an early day and he served as an officer in the war of 1812.
In 1861, he raised a company of the 26th Missouri Volunteers, of which he was made captain.
At the battle of Iuka, in Northern Mississippi, in 1862, he was three times wounded. After the battle was over, the Colonel of the regiment said, "Captain Dean, it was your bravery and skill upon the field of battle that saved the honor of my regiment," Captain Dean was in the long and bloody seige of Vicksburg, being the first man in three thousand to cross the Confederate Redoubts in one of the terrific charges that marked this long and sanguinary struggle. He was at the terrible battle of Lookout Mountain, and a short time afterwards Governor Gamble commissioned him a colonel. A short time afterwards he was given the command of a brigade. He served until in the spring of '65, at Savannah he was mustered out and once more became a private citizen.
Benjamin Devor Dean;
Col. Dean was born in Dark county, Ohio, October 7, 1828. His father emigrated from New Jersey to Ohio, in an early day and he served as an officer in the war of 1812.
In 1861, he raised a company of the 26th Missouri Volunteers, of which he was made captain.
At the battle of Iuka, in Northern Mississippi, in 1862, he was three times wounded. After the battle was over, the Colonel of the regiment said, "Captain Dean, it was your bravery and skill upon the field of battle that saved the honor of my regiment," Captain Dean was in the long and bloody seige of Vicksburg, being the first man in three thousand to cross the Confederate Redoubts in one of the terrific charges that marked this long and sanguinary struggle. He was at the terrible battle of Lookout Mountain, and a short time afterwards Governor Gamble commissioned him a colonel. A short time afterwards he was given the command of a brigade. He served until in the spring of '65, at Savannah he was mustered out and once more became a private citizen.
Col. Dean was born in Dark county, Ohio, October 7, 1828. His father emigrated from New Jersey to Ohio, in an early day and he served as an officer in the war of 1812.
In 1861, he raised a company of the 26th Missouri Volunteers, of which he was made captain.
At the battle of Iuka, in Northern Mississippi, in 1862, he was three times wounded. After the battle was over, the Colonel of the regiment said, "Captain Dean, it was your bravery and skill upon the field of battle that saved the honor of my regiment," Captain Dean was in the long and bloody seige of Vicksburg, being the first man in three thousand to cross the Confederate Redoubts in one of the terrific charges that marked this long and sanguinary struggle. He was at the terrible battle of Lookout Mountain, and a short time afterwards Governor Gamble commissioned him a colonel. A short time afterwards he was given the command of a brigade. He served until in the spring of '65, at Savannah he was mustered out and once more became a private citizen.
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