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Union Major General Cadwallader Colden Washburn
Photographer: Public domain (PD)
Caption: Union Major General Cadwallader Colden Washburn
Additional Description: General Washburn was stationed at Vicksburg during the siege. After the Civil War he started a grain milling company. He entered his flour in the international millers'competition and won the "Gold Medal". Washburn renamed his flour "Gold Medal Flour" which is still being sold today. After selling the Washburn, Crosby Milling Company, which later became General Mills, he was elected Governor of Wisconsin in 1872.
Submitted: November 14, 2017, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p403947
File Size: 0.162 Megabytes

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