See also:JOHN See also:ALEXANDER See also:LOGAN (1826-1886)
, See also:American soldier and See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born in what is now Murphysborough, See also:Jackson See also:county, See also:Illinois, on the 9th of See also:February 1826
.
He had no schooling until he was fourteen; he then studied for three years in See also:Shiloh See also:College, served in the Mexican See also:War as a See also:lieutenant of See also:volunteers, studied See also:law in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of an See also:uncle, graduated from the Law See also:Department of See also:Louisville University in 1851, and practised law with success
.
He entered politics as a See also:Douglas Democrat, was elected county clerk in 1849, served in the See also:State See also:House of Representatives in 1853—1854 and in 1857, and for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, during the See also:interval, was prosecuting See also:attorney of the Third Judicial See also:District of Illinois
.
In 1858 and 1860 he was elected as a Democrat to the See also:National House of Representatives
.
Though unattached and unenlisted, he fought at See also:Bull Run, and
then returned to See also:Washington, resigned his seat, and entered 1 is now regarded as a See also:mineral structure
.
See also:Logan was elected the See also:Union See also:army as See also:colonel of the 31st Illinois Volunteers, which
he organized
.
He was regarded as one of the ablest See also:officers who entered the army from See also:civil See also:life
.
In See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant's See also:campaigns terminating in the See also:capture of See also:Vicksburg, which See also:city Logan's See also:division was the first to enter and of which he was military See also:governor, he See also:rose to the See also:rank of See also:major-See also:general of volunteers; in See also:November 1863 he succeeded See also:Sherman in command of the XV
.
Army See also:Corps; and after the See also:death of McPherson he was in command of the Army of the See also:Tennessee at the See also:battle of See also:Atlanta
.
When the war closed, Logan resumed his political career as a Republican, and was a member of the National House of Representatives from 1867 to 1871, and of the See also:United States See also:Senate from 1871 until 1877 and again from 1879 until his death, which took See also:place at Washington, D.C., on the 26th of See also:December 1886
.
He was always a violent See also:partisan, and was identified with the See also:radical wing of the Republican party
.
In 1868 he was one of the managers in the See also:impeachment of See also:President See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson
.
His war See also:record and his See also:great See also:personal following, especially in the See also:Grand Army of the See also:Republic, contributed to his nomination for See also:Vice-President in 1884 on the See also:ticket with See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James G
.
See also:Blaine, but he was not elected
.
His impetuous See also:oratory, popular on the See also:platform, was less adapted to the halls of legislation
.
He was See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the Grand Army of the Republic from 1868 to 1871, and in this position success-fully urged the observance of Memorial or Decoration See also:Day, an See also:idea which probably originated with him
.
He was the author of The Great See also:Conspiracy: Its Origin and See also:History (1886), a partisan See also:account of the Civil War, and of The Volunteer Soldier of See also:America (1887)
.
There is a See also:fine statue of him by St Gaudens in See also:Chicago
.
The best See also:biography is that by See also:George F
.
See also:Dawson, The Life and Services of Gen
.
See also:John A
.
Logan, as Soldier and Statesman (Chicago and New See also:York, 1887)
.
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