CUTLER, Lysander

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Affiliation:  Union

Born: February 16 1807, Worcester Cty MA

Died: July 30 1866, Milwaukee WI

Pre-War Profession: Surveyor, teacher, businessman, senator, militia colonel

War Service:  July 1861 Col. of 6th Wisconsin, Second Bull Run (w), November 1862 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, Fredericksburg, commanded 2nd Bde/1st Divn/I Corps at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, commanded 1st Bde/4th Divn/V Corps at Wilderness, commanded the division after Wadsworth died, relieved at his own request for health reasons, draft duty, resigned June 1865

Post War: He died from a stroke, in 1866 which doctors attributed to complications from his Globe Tavern wounds