Ormsby MacKnight (or McKnight) Mitchel (August 28, 1810, or possibly 1809, – October 31, 1862) was an American astronomer, polymath, and major general...

enemy’s country as though he had a rope around his neck." Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel, commanding Federal troops in middle Tennessee, sought a way to contract...

commands in an attempt to complicate Federal operations. Union Maj. Gen. Ormsby M. Mitchel received orders to take his division to Huntsville, Alabama, to repair...

for the Defense of Cincinnati. The community was named for General Ormsby M. Mitchel, a professor at Cincinnati College (now the University of Cincinnati)...

command but were not effectively.) The corps was initially commanded by Ormsby M. Mitchel, who announced via General Orders issued from his headquarters at...

Carolina. It was named for one of the local Union Army generals, Ormsby M. Mitchel. The town was a population center for the enterprise known as the...

Grant FRSE while in India on 23 July 1844. It was rediscovered by Ormsby M. Mitchel in 1846 and measured by William Rutter Dawes in April 1847. In 1952...

1829 to 1861 Ormsby M. Mitchel, West Point grad, astronomer, surveyor, general from 1812 to 1825 Marcus Mote, early Ohio artist Corwin M. Nixon, state...

in the U.S. Army. Gillmore was assigned to replace Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel in charge of the X Corps after that officer's death from yellow fever...

Observatory Historic District. Cincinnati Observatory was built by Ormsby M. Mitchel at the peak of Mount Ida, a hill that overlooks downtown Cincinnati...

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Regiment. On the morning of April 11, 1862, Union troops led by General Ormsby M. Mitchel seized Huntsville in order to sever the Confederacy's rail communications...

a bayonet). A community called Mitchelville (in honor of General Ormsby M. Mitchel) was constructed on the north end of the island to house them. In...

rail line of the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. General Ormsby M. Mitchel (d. 1862) was a civil engineer on this project. On September 17, 1861...

NBA head coach, currently the head coach of the Detroit Pistons. Ormsby M. Mitchel, astronomer and major general during the American Civil War Isaiah...

James Maury (1746–1840), first U.S. consul to Liverpool, England Ormsby M. Mitchel (1805–1862), American astronomer and major general in the American...

in astronomy began with reading a Russian translation of a book by Ormsby M. Mitchel at 11. By his own account, he considered himself an astronomer by...

the X Corps commander, Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel, in October 1862. On October 21, 1862, Major General Mitchel gave command of an expedition for the...

General Ormsby M. Mitchel to seize a locomotive in northern Georgia and drive it to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he would rendezvous with Mitchel's attacking...

Army of the Ohio's Third Division, commanded by Brigadier General Ormsby M. Mitchel. Buell advanced southward into Kentucky and Tennessee in early 1862...

forward of amidships in flames. She sank within two minutes. Lieutenant Ormsby M. Mitchel, Jr., USNR, in command of Plymouth, was thrown violently against a...

"Old Rock" – Henry L. Benning, Confederate general "Old Stars"-- Ormsby M. Mitchel, Union general "Old Wooden Head" – John Bell Hood, Confederate general...

facility at Seabrook Landing. It was named for Brigadier General Ormsby M. Mitchel, and is a rare surviving example of a semi-permanent fortification...

to brigadier general of Volunteers attached to the army of General Ormsby M. Mitchel. Later, Rousseau was once again promoted to major general of Volunteers...

3, 1862 Major General Ormsby M. Mitchel, September 3, 1862 to October 30, 1862 (died of yellow fever) Brigadier General John M. Brannan, October 30, 1862...

of Cincinnati in 1861 while under the command of Brigadier General Ormsby M. Mitchel, commander of the Department of the Ohio, and Wallace had found them...

Robert Byington Mitchell (1823–1882), Union Army brigadier general Ormsby M. Mitchel (1810–1862), Union Army major general Attorney General Mitchell (disambiguation)...

C.F. Smith was completed in 1862 under the supervision of General Ormsby M. Mitchel and Colonel Benjamin Harrison, future 23rd President of the United...

songs and music he heard which he later published. In 1862, General Ormsby M. Mitchel helped African Americans to found the town of Mitchelville on Hilton...

attacked by Federal forces: "Morale suffered after forces under General Ormsby M. Mitchel shelled the cave on June 7, 1863." Clearly, the cave was still in...