Life Span
to
Full name
Jesse Lee Reno
Place of Birth
Wheeling, VA
Burial Place
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, DC
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Slave State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
5
Family
Louis Reno (father), Rebecca Quinby (mother), Mary Blanes Cross (wife), Conrad Reno (son), Jesse W. Reno (son)
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Occupation
Military
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
Date Event
Alabama state troops seize the massive arsenal at Mount Vernon in Mobile County
- In North Carolina, a combined federal army and navy operation captures Roanoke Island
In North Carolina, Union land and sea units advance up the Neuse River to attack New Bern
In North Carolina, combined Union land and naval force win the battle of New Bern
In North Carolina, Confederate troops defend the locks of the Dismal Swamp Canal from demolition
- In North Carolina, U.S. Navy units block the entrance to the Albermarle and Chesapeake Canal
How to Cite This Page: "Reno, Jesse Lee," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6471.