BIDWELL, Daniel Davidson
Affiliation:
Union
Born: August 12 1819, Buffalo NY
Died: October 19 1864, Cedar Creek VA
Pre-War Profession: Police justice.
War Service: 1861 Pvt. in 65th New York, October 1861 Col.
of 49th New York, Peninsula campaign, South Mountain,
Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg,
Wilderness, commanded 3rd Bde/2nd Divn/VI Corps at Spotsylvania,
Cold Harbor, Petersburg, August 1864 appointed Brig. Gen.
of Volunteers, Shenandoah Valley campaign, Cedar Creek (mw).
Post War: General Bidwell was mortally wounded by a Confederate shell while commanding his brigade 1864