James M. Tuttle
Military Person
1823 – 1892
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Who was James M. Tuttle?
James Madison Tuttle was a soldier, businessman, and politician from the state of Iowa who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He commanded a brigade and then a division in the Army of the Tennessee in several campaigns in the Western Theater of operations. He led the first Union troops that entered the enemy-held Fort Donelson in 1862, paving the way for the fort's subsequent surrender to Ulysses S. Grant and opening the Cumberland River as an avenue of invasion of the South.
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- Born
- Sep 24, 1823
Summerfield - Also known as
- James Tuttle
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Oct 24, 1892
Des Moines
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on July 23, 2013
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