Jesse Lee Reno (April 20, 1823 – September 14, 1862) was a career
United States Army
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officer who served in the
Mexican–American War
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, in the
Utah War
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, on the western frontier and as a
Union
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General
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during the
American Civil War
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from
West Virginia
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. Known as a "soldier's soldier" who fought alongside his men, he was killed while commanding a corps at
Fox's Gap
Fox's Gap, also known as Fox Gap, is a wind gap in the South Mountain Range of the Blue Ridge Mountains, located in Frederick County and Washington County, Maryland. The gap is traversed by Reno Monument Road. The Appalachian Trail also cross ...
during the
Battle of South Mountain
The Battle of South Mountain—known in several early Southern accounts as the Battle of Boonsboro Gap—was fought on September 14, 1862, as part of the Maryland campaign of the American Civil War. Three pitched battles were fought for posses ...
.
Reno, Nevada
Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about north from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World". Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the ...
;
Reno County, Kansas
Reno County (standard abbreviation: RN) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 61,898. The largest city and county seat is Hutchinson.
History
Early history
For many millennia, the Great ...
;
Reno, Ohio
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;
El Reno, Oklahoma
El Reno is a city in and county seat of Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 16,989, marking a change of 1.55% from 16,729, recorded in the 2010 census. The city was begun shortly after the 1 ...
;
Reno, Pennsylvania
Sugarcreek is a borough in Venango County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 4,824 at the 2020 census. It is the largest borough by total area in all Venango County.
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Sugarcreek is located at (41.420993, -79.818883).
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;
Fort Reno (Oklahoma)
Fort Reno is a former United States Army cavalry post west of El Reno, Oklahoma. It is named for General Jesse L. Reno, who died at the Battle of South Mountain in the American Civil War.
History
Fort Reno began as a temporary camp in July 18 ...
; and
Fort Reno Park
Fort Reno Park is an urban park in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C. It is named after Fort Reno, one of the only locations in the District of Columbia to see combat during the American Civil War. The park was establishe ...
in
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were named after him.
Early life
Reno was born in
Wheeling,
Virginia
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(now
West Virginia
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), the third-oldest of eight children of Lewis Thomas and Rebecca (Quinby) Reno. His ancestors changed the spelling of their surname "Renault" to the more
Anglicized
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"Reno" when they arrived in the United States from France in 1770, landing west of the present city of Richmond, Virginia on the James River. The family roots are French and they were among the first Huguenots on North American soil.
His family moved to the
Franklin, Pennsylvania
Franklin is a city and the county seat of Venango County, Pennsylvania. The population was 6,097 in the 2020 census. Franklin is part of the Oil City, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Franklin is known for its three-day autumn festival in O ...
, area in 1830, and Reno spent his childhood there.
Reno was admitted to the
United States Military Academy
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in 1842 and graduated eighth in his class of 59 cadets in 1846, initially commissioned a
brevet
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second lieutenant
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Australia
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of
Ordnance
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**The military branch responsible for supplying and developing these items, e.g., the Unit ...
.
[Eicher, p. 449.] Reno and
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson became close friends while at West Point. Other classmates and friends included
George B. McClellan
George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American soldier, Civil War Union general, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey. A graduate of West Point, McCl ...
,
George Pickett
George Edward Pickett (January 16,Military records cited by Eicher, p. 428, and Warner, p. 239, list January 28. The memorial that marks his gravesite in Hollywood Cemetery lists his birthday as January 25. Thclaims to have accessed the baptism ...
,
Darius N. Couch,
A. P. Hill
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, and
George Stoneman
George Stoneman Jr. (August 8, 1822 – September 5, 1894) was a United States Army cavalry officer and politician who served as the fifteenth Governor of California from 1883 to 1887. He was trained at West Point, where his roommate was Stonewall ...
.
Reno married Mary Cross Reno on November 1, 1853. The couple had five children, including Conrad Reno and
Jesse W. Reno (the man who invented the first working escalator).
Mexican–American War
During the
Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the (''United States intervention in Mexico''), was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1 ...
in 1847, Reno commanded an
artillery battery
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under General
Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate. He served as a general in the United States Army from 1814 to 1861, taking part in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the early s ...
and fought in the
Siege of Vera Cruz
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and other battles in Mexico. Reno was brevetted twice during the war—once for "gallant and meritorious conduct" at the
Battle of Cerro Gordo
The Battle of Cerro Gordo, or Battle of Sierra Gordo, was an engagement in the Mexican–American War on April 18, 1847. The battle saw Winfield Scott's United States troops outflank Antonio López de Santa Anna's larger Mexican army, driving ...
, and later for bravery at the
Battle for Mexico City
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and the
Battle of Chapultepec
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, where he was seriously wounded while commanding a
howitzer
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battery.
[West Virginia Division of Culture & History](_blank)
/ref> During the occupation of Mexico City, Reno became an original member of the Aztec Club of 1847
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.
After the Mexican–American War ended, Reno served in several locations, including as a mathematics instructor at West Point, as the secretary of a group assigned to "create a system of instruction for heavy artillery", and at the Ordnance Board
The Board of Ordnance was a British government body. Established in the Tudor period, it had its headquarters in the Tower of London. Its primary responsibilities were 'to act as custodian of the lands, depots and forts required for the defence o ...
in Washington, D.C. He was promoted to first lieutenant
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The rank of lieutenant has different meanings in different military formations, but in most forces it is sub-divided into a s ...
, in 1853, and sent to conduct a road survey from the Big Sioux River
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to Mendota, Minnesota
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History
The town was one of the first p ...
. When he returned to Washington, he married Mary Blanes Cross, and the couple had five children, two of whom had notable achievements of their own: Conrad Reno became an attorney and writer of note in Boston
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, Massachusetts, and Jesse W. Reno graduated from Lehigh University
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and invented the first working escalator
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.
Reno's next assignment was as ordnance officer at the Frankford Arsenal
The Frankford Arsenal is a former United States Army ammunition plant located adjacent to the Bridesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, north of the original course of Frankford Creek.
History
Opened in 1816 on of land pu ...
, northeast of Philadelphia
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, where he spent the next few years. In 1857, Reno was assigned to go with Brigadier General
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Albert Sydney Johnston
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(later a senior Confederate general in the Western Theater) as chief of ordnance on a two-year expedition to the Utah Territory
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.
Civil War
When he returned from Utah
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in 1859, Reno was promoted to captain for fourteen years of continuous service. Captain Reno then took command of the Mount Vernon Arsenal
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near Mount Vernon, Alabama
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Mount V ...
, in 1859. At dawn on January 4, 1861, Reno was forced to surrender the arsenal to troops from Alabama
(We dare defend our rights)
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, a bloodless transfer ordered by the governor of Alabama, Andrew B. Moore. Alabama seceded from the Union
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a week later.
Upon leaving Alabama with his small force, Reno was temporarily assigned to command the Fort Leavenworth
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Arsenal until he was appointed brigadier general
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of volunteers in the fall of 1861. He transferred to Virginia
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, took command of the 2nd Brigade, Burnside Expeditionary Force, and soon had organized five regiments. The 2nd Brigade fought in Major General
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Ambrose Burnside
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's North Carolina Expedition from February through July 1862. Reno became a division commander in the IX Corps,[ which had become part of the ]Army of the Potomac
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. In the Northern Virginia Campaign, Reno actively opposed his friend and classmate Stonewall Jackson
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during the Second Battle of Bull Run
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and the Battle of Chantilly
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. Reno was appointed a major general
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on August 20, 1862. (This promotion was confirmed posthumously on March 9, 1863, with date of rank established as July 18, 1862.) Burnside became commander of the Army of the Potomac's right wing for the start of the Maryland Campaign in September, elevating Reno to command of the IX Corps from September 3.[
Reno had a reputation as a "soldier's soldier" and often was right beside his troops without a sword or any sign of rank. On September 12, 1862, Reno's IX Corps spent the day in ]Frederick, Maryland
Frederick is a city in and the county seat of Frederick County, Maryland. It is part of the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area. Frederick has long been an important crossroads, located at the intersection of a major north–south Native ...
, as the Army of the Potomac
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under Major General George McClellan
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advanced westward in pursuit of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
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under Gen. Robert E. Lee. Elements of Lee's army defended three low-lying "gaps" of South Mountain— Crampton's, Turner's, and Fox's—while concentrating at Sharpsburg, Maryland
Sharpsburg is a town in Washington County, Maryland. The town is approximately south of Hagerstown. Its population was 705 at the 2010 census.
During the American Civil War, the Battle of Antietam, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Sharpsb ...
, to the west, the location of the subsequent Battle of Antietam
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(September 17, 1862). In the Battle of South Mountain
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on September 14, Reno stopped directly in front of his troops as he reconnoitered the enemy's forces advancing up the road at Fox's Gap. He was shot in the chest by a rookie Union soldier from the 35th Massachusetts who mistook him for Confederate cavalry at dusk. The manuscript of Union Officer Ezra A. Carman, published in The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Volume 1: South Mountain, Edited and annotated by Thomas G. Clemens, , documents Reno's death by men of General John Bell Hood who were in and fired from the woods that the 35th Massachusetts skirmishers had just retreated from.
He was brought by stretcher to Brigadier General Samuel D. Sturgis's command post and said in a clear voice, "Hallo, Sam, I'm dead!" Sturgis, a long-time acquaintance and fellow member of the West Point
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Class of 1846, thought that he sounded so natural that he must be joking and told Reno that he hoped it was not as bad as all that. Reno repeated, "Yes, yes, I'm dead—good-by!", dying a few minutes later. In his official report, Confederate general Daniel Harvey Hill
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sarcastically remarked, "The Yankees on their side lost General Reno, a renegade Virginian, who was killed by a happy shot from the Twenty-third North Carolina."
Legacy
Reno's body was first taken to Boston, the home of his wife, and placed in a vault in Trinity Church. On April 9, 1867, his remains were reinterred in Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
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A memorial marking the location of his death was erected in 1889 by IX Corps veterans on present-day Reno Monument Road in Fox's Gap
Fox's Gap, also known as Fox Gap, is a wind gap in the South Mountain Range of the Blue Ridge Mountains, located in Frederick County and Washington County, Maryland. The gap is traversed by Reno Monument Road. The Appalachian Trail also cross ...
at the South Mountain State Battlefield Park. A monument for Confederate Brig. Gen. Samuel L. Garland, Jr. of Virginia also killed near here was erected nearby in 1993 by the Sons of Confederate Veterans
The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) is an American neo-Confederate nonprofit organization of male descendants of Confederate soldiers
The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the militar ...
and the Central Maryland Heritage League along with a large stone and bronze sculpture to North Carolina soldiers defending the line in 2005.
The cities of Reno, Nevada
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, Reno, Ohio
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, El Reno, Oklahoma
El Reno is a city in and county seat of Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 16,989, marking a change of 1.55% from 16,729, recorded in the 2010 census. The city was begun shortly after the 1 ...
, and Reno, Pennsylvania, are all named for the general. The first two contain monuments to him in their downtown areas. The one in Reno stands along Virginia Street
U.S. Route 395 Business (US 395 Bus.) is a north–south state highway in Reno, Nevada. The highway follows Virginia Street, the primary north–south arterial street of the area. US 395 is also designated as State Route 430 (SR  ...
; the one in El Reno stands in Youngheim Plaza on Russell Street.
The United States Army
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named three outposts after Reno: Fort Pennsylvania in present-day Washington, D.C., was renamed Fort Reno in 1862, Fort Reno was constructed near present-day El Reno, Oklahoma
El Reno is a city in and county seat of Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 16,989, marking a change of 1.55% from 16,729, recorded in the 2010 census. The city was begun shortly after the 1 ...
in 1874, the third Fort Reno was built in present-day Wyoming
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on the Bozeman Trail
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in 1865.
Reno County, Kansas
Reno County (standard abbreviation: RN) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 61,898. The largest city and county seat is Hutchinson.
History
Early history
For many millennia, the Great ...
is also named in his honor.
The Jesse L. Reno School in Washington, DC was named in his honor. It closed in 1950.
See also
*List of American Civil War generals (Union)
Union generals
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Notes
References
*Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher
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. ''Civil War High Commands''. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2001. .
* Sears, Stephen W. ''Landscape Turned Red: The Battle of Antietam''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. .
*U.S. War Department. ''The War of the Rebellion'': ''a Compilation of the Official Records
The ''Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies in the War of the Rebellion'', commonly known as the ''Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies'' or Official Records (OR or ORs), is the most extensive collection of Americ ...
of the Union and Confederate Armies''. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901.
*Warner, Ezra J. ''Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders''. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964. .
*''The Parke Society Newsletter''. Vol.36-No.2 pages 28–29 dated 1999.
Further reading
*McConnell, William. ''Remember Reno: A Biography of Major General Jesse Lee Reno''. Shippensburg, Pennsylvania: White Mane Publishing, 1996. .
External links
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Fort Reno, Oklahoma
Major General Jesse Lee Reno Monument in El Reno, Oklahoma
Fort Reno in Washington, D.C.
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