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Photographer: Internet Archive
Caption: Brigadier General J. S. Negley
Additional Description: General Negley was born in East Liberty, Pa., December 26th, 1826. He enlisted as a private and served in the Mexican War. In April, 1861, he was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers; served in Alabama and Tennessee with the Army the Ohio; and at the battle of Lavergne, October 7th, 1862, was in command, defeating the Confederates under Generals Anderson and Forrest. He was promoted major general for gallantry at Stone River, and at the battle of Chickamauga held Owen's Gap. He settled in Pittsburg after the war, and represented that city in Congress.
From Frank Leslie's Scenes and Portraits of the Civil War... by Frank Leslie, 1894, Page 54.
Submitted: March 21, 2024, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p780032
File Size: 1.365 Megabytes

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