George P. Estey

George P. Estey was born on April 25, 1829, in Nashua, New Hampshire. For some time he attended Dartmouth College, though he didn't graduate, and briefly moved to California and Illinois to study law before settling in Toledo, Ohio. There he practiced in partnership with future Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite.[1]

When the Civil War began, he became lieutenant colonel of the 14th Ohio Infantry Regiment, a three-months unit that eventually reorganized for three years of service. With his men he fought in the Western Virginia Campaign and in Kentucky before being promoted to colonel, again serving in the Tullahoma Campaign. By the time of the Atlanta Campaign he commanded a brigade of the XIV Corps. He received a leg wound while leading a bayonet charge at the Battle of Jonesborough, receiving praise from division commander Absalom Baird. During the Savannah Campaign, on December 9, 1964, he was brevetted brigadier general. He then participated in the Carolinas Campaign.[1] On June 26, 1865, he was appointed full brigadier general, the confirmation by Congress coming just in 1866 after he had resigned in December.[2]

After the war he returned to practicing law in Washington, D.C., for the remainder of his life.[1] He died from pneumonia in Manhattan, New York, on February 6, 1881, and was interred at his birthplace.[3]

• List of American Civil War generals (Union)

• Warner, Ezra J. (1964). Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-0822-7.
• Eicher, John H. and David J. (2001). Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
• Welsh, Jack D. (2005). Medical Histories of Union Generals. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. ISBN 0873388534.

• George P. Estey at Find a Grave