On Nov. 14, 1828, Maj. Gen. James Birdseye McPherson - the highest-ranking Union officer to be killed during the Civil War - was born near Clyde.
McPherson secured an appointment to West Point and graduated first in the Class of 1853. Among his classmates were others who would be leaders on both sides of the Civil War, including his friend and roommate, John Bell Hood, commander of the Confederate forces when McPherson died.
McPherson was given command of the Army of the Tennessee, replacing fellow Ohioan William Tecumseh Sherman, in March 1864.
They were engaged in the Battle of Atlanta when McPherson came upon a skirmish line of Confederates on July 22.
Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant said of McPherson, "The nation had more to expect from him than from almost anyone living."
Rebecca Goodman
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