Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh

Life Span
to
Full name
Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Sherman
Place of Birth
Eastport, ME
Burial Place
Portsmouth, NH
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Family
Nathaniel G. Dana (father) 
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Occupation
Military
Businessman
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Church or Religious Denomination
Episcopalian
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army
Date Event
Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac
Major General N.J.T. Dana named as the commander of the defenses of Philadelphia
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