Howe, John Homer

The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | 576 words | Copyright

Howe, John Homer (1822–73) U.S. soldier and jurist, born in New York. Howe practiced law in Ohio and Illinois. He commanded the 124th Illinois Volunteer Regiment at Vicksburg (1863), where a detachment he led earned the nickname “the Mad Moles” for tunneling under Confederate works. After the Union victory he administered the occupied area, and left the army in 1865 as a brevet brigadier general. Later President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Howe chief justice of the Wyoming Territory, where he impaneled the first women on a jury in the United States.

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