1. Daniel P Tyler IV was an iron manufacturer, railroad president, and one of the first Union Army generals of the American Civil War.
19 Facts About Daniel Tyler
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Daniel Tyler was uncle to Robert O Tyler who would serve as a general in the Civil War.
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Daniel Tyler graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1819.
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Daniel Tyler became an authority on artillery and an honest inspector of arms of private contractors, which appears not to have helped him advance above first lieutenant in rank.
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Daniel Tyler married Emily Lee of Norwich, Connecticut on May 18,1832.
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Daniel Tyler was the president of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad and, for five years, the Macon and Western Railroad in Georgia.
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Later, Daniel Tyler served as the superintending engineer of the Dauphin and Susquehanna Railroad and the affiliated Allentown Railroad, and became president and engineer when the former was reorganized as the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad.
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Daniel Tyler had greater success in the railroad industry than he had in the manufacture of pig iron.
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At the start of the Civil War, Daniel Tyler volunteered to be an aide-de-camp to Brig.
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Daniel Tyler served briefly as the colonel of the 1st Connecticut Infantry.
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Daniel Tyler was appointed brigadier general in the Connecticut Militia on May 10,1861 and commanded a division in Brig.
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Daniel Tyler was sent to the west and commanded a brigade in the Army of the Mississippi between May 1,1862 and July 22,1862 during the Siege of Corinth.
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Later, Daniel Tyler commanded at Baltimore, at Harper's Ferry between June 13,1863 and July 3,1864, and finally at the District of Delaware between July 3,1863 and January 19,1864.
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Daniel Tyler resigned his commission in the Union Army on April 6,1864, then being older than the retirement age of 65, and moved to New Jersey.
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Daniel Tyler established an iron manufacturing company and was president of the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad.
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Daniel Tyler acquired large tracts of land in Guadalupe County, Texas.
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Daniel Tyler died while visiting New York City on November 30,1882.
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Daniel Tyler is buried in Hillside Cemetery, at Anniston, Alabama.
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Daniel Tyler's nephew, Robert O Tyler, was a brigadier general in the Union Army.