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See also:DARIUS See also:NASH See also:COUCH (1822-1897) , See also:American soldier, was See also:born at See also:South See also:East, See also:Putnam See also:county, N.Y., on the 23rd of See also:July 1822, and graduated from See also:West Point in 1846, serving in the Mexican See also:war and in the war against the See also:Seminole See also:Indians . He See also:left the See also:army in 1855, but soon after the outbreak of the See also:civil war he was made a brigadier-See also:general U.S.V . He served as a divisional See also:commander in the battles of the Army of the See also:Potomac in 1862, and at Fredericksburg (See also:December 1862) and See also:Chancellorsville (May 1863) he commanded the II. See also:corps . He had been made a See also:major-general U.S.V. in July 1862 . During the See also:Gettysburg See also:campaign he was employed in organizing the Pennsylvanian See also:militia, and he subsequently served in the West, taking See also:part in the See also:battle of See also:Nashville, and in the final operations in the Carolinas . He left the army after the war . General See also:Couch died on the 12th of See also:February 1897 at See also:Norwalk, See also:Connecticut . |
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