Elisha Bassett Langdon

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Elisha Bassett Langdon
BornFebruary 24, 1827
Linwood, Ohio
DiedMay 30, 1867
Cincinnati, Ohio
Buried
Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio
AllegianceUnion
Service/branchUnion Army
RankUnion Army LTC rank insignia.png Lieutenant Colonel
Union Army brigadier general rank insignia.svg Bvt. Brigadier General
Unit1st Ohio Infantry Regiment
XX Corps
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War
Other workOhio state representative; Ohio state senator

Elisha Bassett Langdon (February 24, 1827 – May 30, 1867) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army during the period of the American Civil War.

Career[]

Langdon had been a Democrat before the war and had served in the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate.

Langdon began the war serving a major in the 1st Ohio Infantry Regiment which he later led as its lieutenant colonel. He served in battles such as Shiloh, Perryville, Chickamauga, and at Chattanooga's Battle of Missionary Ridge. At the end of the war, he was named a brevet brigadier general with a promotion date of March 13, 1865, and made assessor of internal revenue for the first district of Ohio.[1][2] Langdon had also served as inspector general for General Alexander McDowell McCook's division and corps. He had been severely wounded in the face and neck while leading a successful charge at Missionary Ridge, and would never completely recover from his war wounds. He died suddenly on May 30, 1867, in Cincinnati, Ohio.[3]

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References[]

  1. ^ James Barnett. "Forty For the Union: Civil War Generals Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-01-08.
  2. ^ The Photographic History of the Civil War: Three Volumes in One. New York: Random House Value Publishing, Inc. 1983. p. 312. 0-517-20155-0.
  3. ^ Daniel A. Masters, ed. (2017). Bull Run to Atlanta: The Civil War Letters of Harry Comer, Company A, 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Perrysburg, Ohio: Columbian Arsenal Press. p. 108.
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