Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 6 | Civil War Veteran Dead at Medford

CIVIL WAR VETE VETERAN AN DEAD AT MEDFORD I By United Press I 1 MEDFORD RD Ore March 4 General General 1 William 86 a commander of ot Union cavalry cava during Grants Grant's Shiloh I I and Vicksburg campaigns died at 1 o'clock this afternoon of pneumonia He had been ill but buta a short time 1 General had lived on his orchard h here re for the pa past ast t seven years Born In Ohio In 1830 ho ho he graduated from West Vest Point in 1853 At the close clos I o of ot th the civil war var he l he-l left ft tie the army and andt achieved some fame as a civil engineer in hi the Middle West He constructed the first bridge across the Missouri l river at Omaha and the foun foun- dation problem m on Chicago skyscrapers sky sky- scrapers S