Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 - October 26, 1909) was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was a corps commander noted for suffering two humiliating defeats, at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, but he recovered from the setbacks while posted in the Western Theater, and served there successfully as a corps and army commander. After the war, he commanded troops in the West, … Wikipedia
With (from left to right) 134th NY Infantry , 1st NY Light Artillery , 73rd Pennsylvania Infantry , Howard's HQ marker (vertical cannon barrel) & the 7th West Virginia Infantry memorials in the foreground. www.dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0007060.htm
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