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Civil War Soldiers - Ammen
| Ammen, Jacob, brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born in
Botetourt county, Va., Jan. 7, 1808. In 1831 he was graduated at West
Point and was then, until Aug. 31, 1832, assistant instructor on
mathematics and military tactics. He then spent some time on duty in
Charleston harbor during the trouble over the nullification acts of
South Carolina, and, returning to West Point, resumed his work as
instructor. In Nov., 1837, he resigned from the army to accept a
professorship in mathematics in Bacon college, Georgetown, Ky. He
continued to teach in various institutions, until 1855, and was then
until 1861, a civil engineer at Ripley, O. On April 18, 1861, he
became captain in the 12th Ohio volunteers, and shortly afterward was
promoted to lieutenant-colonel, in which capacity he participated in
the West Virginia campaign under Gen. McClellan. On July 16, 1862,
after the campaigns in Tennessee and Mississippi, he was promoted to
brigadier-general of volunteers, and had charge of camps of
instruction in Ohio and Illinois until Dec. 16, 1863. From the
following April, until Jan. 14, 1865, when he resigned, he was in
command of the district of eastern Tennessee.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908 |
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