John Johnson Elwell, Union Brigadier General, 2nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Chief Quartermaster

- John Johnson Elwell, Union Brigadier General, 2 nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, Chief Quartermaster, Department of the South - History Of The Indian Wars And War Of The Revolution Of The United States by Thomson, John Lewis, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1887. Revised and Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Good. woodcuts by W. Croome and other artists. Octavo; xii, 402 pages; original brown cloth, recased with new endpapers. Ex libris with signature, and dated Dec. 15, 1895 by John Johnson Elwell, Sr.: Elwell was a remarkable man who was both a physician and an attorney, and he was brevetted Brigadier General at the close of the Civil War. Woodcuts by William Croome and other artists. [ See Howes T213].. Croome was a member of the Hudson River School, an co-produced the Panorama of the Hudson River from New York to Albany; he also taught F. O. C. Darley. After the outbreak of the Civil War, Elwell was appointed quartermaster, equipping the 2 nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry of Cleveland, the 3d Ohio Volunteer Cavalry of Huron County, and the Sherman Brigade. Elwell was volunteer aide-de-camp to Gen. Henry W. Benham at the Battle of Secessionville, S.C., on 16 June 1862; and at the assault of Ft. Wagner, 18 July 1862, rallied troops in battle. Elwell was promoted to lieutenant colonel, serving as chief quartermaster of the Dept. of the South until 1 Feb. 1864. Because of yellow fever, Elwell was removed to Elmira, N.Y. where he purchased horses for the cavalry and supplied Elmira Prison and the rendezvous at Elmira for drafted men. Elwell was breveted 4 times for gallantry in battle and received the Gillmore Medal for meritorious conduct. His brevet generalship dated from Mar. 1865. After the war, he returned to Cleveland, resuming his careers and becoming editor of John Bouviers Law Directory. Elwell married Nancy Chittenden in 1846; they had four children, Emma, Ellen, Mary, and George, all of whom died at an early age.