DANA, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh

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Affiliation:  Union

Born: April 15 1822, Eastport ME

Died: July 15 1905, Portsmouth NH

Pre-War Profession: Graduated West Point 1842, Mexican war, resigned 1855, banker, militia officer.

War Service: October 1861 Col. of 1st Minnesota, Ball's Bluff, February 1862 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded 3rd Bde/2nd Divn/II Corps in Peninsula campaign, Antietam (w), November 1862 promoted Maj. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded defences at Philadelphia, served on Texas Gulf, commanded districts on the Mississippi River, commanded Dept of the Mississippi.

Post War: Businessman, railroad executive, deputy commissioner of pensions