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JOHN ALEXANDER LOGAN (1826-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 867 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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, 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'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 .

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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 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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