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Brevet Brigadier-General Charles F. Manderson, U.S.V.
Brevet Brigadier-General Charles F. Manderson, U. S. Senator from
Nebraska, and a lawyer by profession, was born in Philadelphia, Pa.,
February 9, 1837. General Manderson received his education in the public
schools and High School of Philadelphia. At the age of nineteen he removed
to Canton, Ohio, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859.
In the spring of 186o he was elected city solicitor of Canton. He was
married at Canton, April 11, 1865, to Rebecca S., daughter of Hon. J. D.
Brown, a lawyer of prominence. On the day of the receipt of the news of
the firing on Fort Sumter, Mr. Manderson enlisted as a private with
Captain James Wallace, of the Canton Zouaves.
Mr. Manderson and Samuel Beatty, an old Mexican soldier, received
permission from Governor Dennison to raise a company of infantry in April,
1861. They recruited a full company in one day; Manderson being
commissioned as its first lieutenant, and Beatty captain. In May, 1861,
Captain Beatty was made colonel of the Nineteenth Ohio Infantry, and
Manderson was commissioned captain of Company A of the same regiment. He
took his company into Western Virginia, and the Nineteenth Ohio became a
part of the brigade commanded by General Rosecrans in General McClellan's
army of occupation of Virginia. The regiment participated in the first
field-battle of the war, known as Rich Mountain, on the 11th day of July,
1861. Captain Manderson received special mention in the official reports
of this battle. In August, 1861, he re-enlisted his company for three
years or during the war, and in this service he rose through the grades of
major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel of the Nineteenth Ohio Infantry,
and on January 1, 1864, over four hundred of the survivors of his regiment
re-enlisted with him as veteran volunteers. The battle of Shiloh, during
which Captain Manderson acted as lieutenant-colonel, caused his promotion
to the rank of major, and he was mentioned in the reports of Generals
Boyle and Crittenden for distinguished gallantry and exceptional service.
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He was in command of the
Nineteenth Ohio Infantry in all its engagements up to and including
the battle of Lovejoy's Station, September 2, 1864.
Major Manderson was promoted to be lieut.-colonel and colonel for
his conduct at the battle of Stone River.
During the Atlanta campaign Colonel Manderson commanded a demi-brigade,
composed of the Nineteenth Ohio, Seventy-ninth Indiana, and Ninth
Kentucky.
While leading his demi-brigade in a charge upon the enemy's works at
Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, on September 2, 1864, Colonel Manderson
was severely wounded in the spine and right side, which produced
temporary paralysis, and rendered him unfit for duty in the field.
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The ball being unextracted and much disability arising there-from,
Colonel Manderson was compelled to resign the service, from wounds, in
April, 1865, the war in the West having practically closed. He was
brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, United States Army, to date
March 13, 1865, "for long, faithful, gallant, and meritorious services
during the war of the Rebellion."
Returning to Canton, Ohio, General Manderson resumed the practice of law,
and was twice elected District Attorney of Stark County, declining a
nomination for a third term. In 1867 he came within one vote of receiving
the Republican nomination for Congress in a district in Ohio, then
conceded to be Republican by several thousand.
In November, 1869, he removed to Omaha, Nebraska, where he still resides,
and where he quickly became prominent in legal and political affairs. He
was a member of the Nebraska State Constitutional Convention of 1871, and
also that of 1874, being elected without opposition by the nominations of
both political parties. He served as city attorney of Omaha, Nebraska, for
over six years. For many years he has been an active comrade in the Grand
Army of the Republic, and for three years was commander of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion of the District of Columbia. He was elected U.
S. Senator, as a Republican, to succeed Alvin Saunders, his term
commencing March 4, 1883. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1888 without
opposition, and with unexceptionable and unprecedented marks of approval
from the Legislature of Nebraska. In the Senate he has been chairman of
the joint Committee on Printing and an active member of the following
committees: Claims, Private Land Claims, Territories, Indian Affairs,
Military Affairs, and Rules.
In the second session of the Fifty-first Congress he was elected by the
Senate as its president pro tempore without opposition, it having been
declared, after full debate, to be a continuing office. This position he
now holds.
Source: Officers of the Volunteer Army and Navy who
served in the Civil War, published by L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1893, 419
pgs.
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