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Josiah W. Bissell
Colonel, Col. Josiah Wolcott Bissell (May 12, 1818 – November 30, 1891) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War that commanded the Engineer Regiment of the West. Biography Bissell was born in Rochester, New York, Rochester, New York (state), New York on May 12, 1818 to a man of the same name who was an early settler of Rochester. Before the onset of the American Civil War, Bissell worked in banking as well as architectural engineering. He married Julia Wolcott Hooker, a descendent of Thomas Hooker, who was also from Rochester, on July 12, 1844. On May 28, 1861 Bissell was made colonel and would come to lead what would be known as the Bissell's Engineer Regiment, Engineer Regiment of the West. He had proposed the idea of the regiment to Major General John C. Frémont in July 1861 in response to the lack of engineers and mechanics in the Western theater of the American Civil War, western theater. During the war, Bissell's regiment would get attached to John Pope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochester, New York
Rochester () is a City (New York), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York, the county seat, seat of Monroe County, New York, Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, and Yonkers, New York, Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in Western New York, the city of Rochester forms the core of a larger Rochester metropolitan area, New York, metropolitan area with a population of 1 million people, across six counties. The city was one of the United States' first boomtowns, initially due to the fertile Genesee River Valley, which gave rise to numerous flour mills, and then as a manufacturing center, which spurred further rapid population growth. Rochester rose to prominence as the birthplace and home of some of America's most iconic companies, in particular Eastman Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb (along with Wegmans, Gannett, Paychex, Western Union, French's, Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
