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Don Carlos Buell

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Don Carlos Buell 1818–98, Union general in the Civil War, b. near Marietta, Ohio, grad. West Point, 1841. Buell was appointed brigadier general of volunteers in the Civil War (May, 1861), helped organize the Army of the Potomac, and took command of the Dept. of Ohio (Nov., 1861). He supported Grant's move up the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers by marching on Bowling Green, and after the fall of Fort Donelson he pursued the retreating Confederates to Nashville. In Mar., 1862, he was placed under Gen. H. W. Halleck and made major general of the Army of the Ohio, in which service he played a decisive role at Shiloh (see Shiloh, battle of ). He forced the Confederates to retreat from Kentucky at Perryville (Oct. 8, 1962) but was dilatory in his pursuit. He was replaced by Gen. W. S. Rosecrans ; subsequently he was investigated by the military and discharged.

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Buell, Don Carlos

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Buell, Don Carlos ˈbyōōəl (1818–98) soldier and businessman, born near Marietta, Ohio. Buell fought in the Seminole War (1855–57) and the Mexican War (1846–48), and commanded the Army of the Ohio (1861–62). He reinforced Ulysses S. Grant at Shiloh (April 6–7, 1862), and attacked Confederates at Perryville, Kentucky (October 8, 1862), who then withdrew from the state. Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton blamed Buell for not forcing a decisive battle and crushing the Confederate forces.

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