Andrew Hickenlooper

Infobox Military Person
name=Andrew Hickenlooper
born= birth date|1837|8|10
died= Death date and age|1904|5|12|1837|8|10
placeofbirth=Hudson, Ohio
placeofdeath=Cincinnati, Ohio
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caption=Andrew Hickenlooper
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allegiance=United States of America
branch= United States Army
serviceyears=1862 – 1865
rank=Brevet Brigadier General
commands=5th Ohio Independent Battery
Army of the Tennessee
XVIII Corps
unit=
battles=American Civil War *Battle of Shiloh *Vicksburg Campaign *Atlanta campaign *Sherman's March to the Sea
awards=
laterwork=Lieutenant Governor of Ohio

Andrew Hickenlooper (August 10, 1837 – May 12, 1904) was an Ohio civil engineer, politician, industrialist, and most famously, an officer who served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Early life and Civil War career

Hickenlooper was born in the village of Hudson, Ohio. He attended Woodward College and Xavier College. When he was nineteen, he entered the office of A. W. Gilbert, then the city surveyor of Cincinnati, and thoroughly mastered the duties of the position,. Three years later, he became the city surveyor himself. After spending two years in this position, the Civil War broke out.

Although he was only twenty-four, he recruited what was known as Hickenlooper's Battery or the 5th Ohio Independent Battery, and joined Maj. Gen. John C. Fremont at Jefferson City, Missouri. In 1862, his battery was made a part of the Army of the Tennessee and took a distinguished part in the Battle of Shiloh. Hickenlooper managed to save four of his six guns after the initial Confederate attack. He later defended the famous Hornet's Nest in support of Benjamin M. Prentiss's division. For gallantry at Shiloh, he became commandant of artillery in Thomas J. McKean's division and later chief of staff of the XVII Corps.

During the Vicksburg Campaign, Brig. Gen. James McPherson wrote to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton that, as Hickenlooper's further promotion in the line of the artillery service was impossible, that he be given special consideration for promotion. Hickenlooper served through the Atlanta campaign as an engineer with distinguished honor and participated in Sherman's March to the Sea, and the advance through the Carolinas. He was endorsed for brigadier general by Generals William Sherman, Oliver O. Howard, and Ulysses S. Grant. On May 20, 1865, be became a brevet brigadier general.

Postbellum

After the war, Hickenlooper was appointed United States marshal for the Southern district of Ohio. Then he served two terms as city civil engineer. While in this office, he was made assistant to W.W. Scarborough, then the president of the Cincinnati Gas Company, with the title of vice president. He served as vice president but for a short time, as he was then elected president of the company. He published two books, "Competition in the Manufacture and Delivery of Gas" (1881), and "Incandescent Electric Lights for Street Illumination" (1886).

He became active in veterans affairs, particularly those of the Society of the Army of the Tenneessee, serving as its Corresponding Secretary, where he worked tirelessly for the erection of monuments to the memory of his friend and mentor, General James B. McPherson. In 1879, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and declined a renomination in 1881. He served one term as president of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. In 1902, he published a book on the Battle of Shiloh.

Hickenlooper died in Cincinnati with a distinguished civil and military reputation. He is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati.

On January 3, 1912, a statue in honor of Hickenlooper was erected in Vicksburg National Military Park.

ee also

*List of American Civil War generals

References

* Ballard, Michael B., "Vicksburg, The Campaign that Opened the Mississippi", University of North Carolina Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8078-2893-9.
* Daniel, Larry, "Shiloh: The Battle that Changed the Civil War", Simon and Schuster, 1997, ISBN 0-684-83857-5.
* Eicher, John H., & Eicher, David J., "Civil War High Commands", Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
* Sword, Wiley, "Shiloh: Bloody April", Morningside Books, 1974, ISBN 0-89029-770-3.

External links

* [http://www.ohiocivilwar.com/acw5.html 5th Ohio Independent Battery]
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohhamilt/news/1904may13obit1.html Obituary in the Cincinnati "Times-Star"]
*findagrave|5951252 Retrieved on 2008-02-12

Further reading

*Bearss, Edwin C., "The Vicksburg Campaign", 3 volumes, Morningside Press, 1991, ISBN 0-89029-308-2.

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