Jonathan Baker Moore
Jonathan Baker Moore was a politician and Union Army officer during the American Civil War.
Biography
Moore was born on March 16, 1825 in Posey County, Indiana. In 1837, he and his family moved to Muscoda, Wisconsin.[1] Moore died of a stroke on February 8, 1889 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin and is buried in Lancaster, Wisconsin. His entire estate was left to his wife, Christiana.
Political career
Moore was Constable of Platteville, Wisconsin from 1849 to 1852 and Clerk of Platteville in 1853. He was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1860 and as Sheriff of Grant County, Wisconsin in 1861.
Military career
During the Civil War, Moore was appointed colonel of the Union Army's 33rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment on October 18, 1862.[2][3] He and the regiment would later take part in the Red River Campaign, the Vicksburg Campaign, the Battle of Tupelo, the Battle of Atlanta, the Battle of Nashville and the Battle of Spanish Fort. Moore was mustered out of the volunteers on August 9, 1865.[3] On February 18, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Moore for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from that date, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on March 3, 1865.[4] On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Moore for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from March 26, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866.[4][5]
References
- ^ "General Jonathan B. Moore" (PDF). 33d Regiment - Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ "Jonathan Baker Moore". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2012-02-20.
- ^ a b Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. p. 395.
- ^ a b Eicher, 2001, p. 753.
- ^ Eicher lists both brevet confirmations on page 753 but only the second one on page 395. Precedent had established that an officer could only receive a brevet appointment once to the same grade. Eicher does not explain the unusual, if not unique, second nomination and confirmation to the same grade in the same force (volunteers). It presumably would have been unnecessary unless a defect existed in the first appointment or would have served no purpose if an earlier appointment had been properly made and confirmed.