John Peter Cleaver (P.C.) Shanks, Union Major General, 7th Indiana Cavalry Regiment, Department of

- John Peter Cleaver (P.C.) Shanks, Union Major General, 7 th Indiana Cavalry Regiment, Department of the Mississippi, U.S. Congressman from Indiana - A Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men of the State of Indiana, 2 large, leatherbound volumes, Quarto, each volume approx. 550 pages. Only Volume 2 signed, illus, ink inscriptions inside front flyleaf. Volume 2 bears the signature of John P. C. Shanks and is inscribed to his wife. In addition to being a Union General during the Civil War, he served in the 11th District in Congress. From Wikipedia: During the Civil War he served in the Union Army as a colonel and aide-de-camp to Major General John C. Fremont from September 20, 1861 to June 1862. He was appointed a colonel in the regular army and aide-de-camp from March 31, 1862 to October 9, 1863. He commanded the 7th Indiana Cavalry Regiment as colonel from October 9, 1863 to December 8, 1864. On December 12, 1864, President of the United States Abraham Lincoln nominated Shanks for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers, to rank from December 8, 1864, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on February 14, 1865. He then commanded Brigade 1 of the Cavalry Division of the Department of Mississippi from December 8, 1864 to September 19, 1865, when he was mustered out of the volunteers. On December 3, 1867, President Andrew Johnson nominated Shanks for appointment to the grade of brevet major general of volunteers, to rank from March 13, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on February 14, 1868. Shanks was elected to the Fortieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1875) and served as chairman of the Committee on Militia (Forty-first Congress) and the Committee on Indian Affairs (Forty-second Congress).