14 Facts About Lysander Cutler

Lysander Cutler was an American businessman, educator, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.

Lysander Cutler served as a Union Army officer through almost the entire American Civil War, notably commanding the famed Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac.

Lysander Cutler rose to the rank of brigadier ganeral and received an honorary brevet to major general.

Lysander Cutler started a woolen mill, a foundry, a flour mill, and a sawmill, becoming very wealthy in the process.

Lysander Cutler was prominent in civic affairs as a selectman, director of a railroad, trustee of Tufts College, and a member of the Maine State Senate in 1841.

In Wisconsin, Lysander Cutler worked as a claims investigator for a mining company.

Lysander Cutler was required to make frequent trips into Indian territory, where he was often threatened with ambush and death.

Lysander Cutler's men rejoiced when this temporary position was filled by Brig.

Gibbon was promoted to division command, he recommended that the recuperating Lysander Cutler be given command of the Iron Brigade, but Col.

The Army of the Potomac was reorganized in the spring of 1864 and Lysander Cutler was given command of the 1st Brigade, 4th Division, V Corps, on March 25.

Lysander Cutler led the division through the rest of the Overland Campaign and into the Siege of Petersburg.

Lysander Cutler spent the remainder of the war as an invalid, administering the draft in Jackson, Michigan.

Lysander Cutler resigned from the Army on June 30,1865, his health deteriorating rapidly.

Lysander Cutler died from a stroke, which doctors attributed to complications from his Globe Tavern wounds, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is buried there in Forest Home Cemetery.