History of Hubbard, (Trumbull County) Ohio United States of America

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Cyrus Bussey, soldier, was born at Hubbard, Trambull county, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1833; son of Rev. A. Bussey, a prominent Methodist clergyman. At sixteen he commenced business on his own account at Dupont, Ind., having acquired two years' experience in a dry-goods store. In 1855 he removed to Bloomfield, Iowa, established himself in a mercantile business, and became prominent in politics. In 1858 he was elected as a Democrat to the Iowa senate, and in 1860 was chosen a delegate to the national Democratic convention which nominated Stephen A. Douglas for the presidency. In 1861 he was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Kirkwood, and was charged with the defense of the southern borders of the state. Hearing, in July, that the Confederates were massing near the northern frontier of Missouri preparatory to entering Iowa and taking Keokuk by storm, he seized a consignment of a thousand guns, in transit from the war department to some point in the west, and arming the 4th Iowa infantry, he forestalled the proposed movement by advancing into Missouri and dispersing the invaders. He was appointed colonel of the 3rd Iowa cavalry, a volunteer regiment, which he had raised, and being ordered to join the army of the southwest, then stationed at Sugar Creek, Ark., he covered the distance of two hundred miles in four days. He commanded a brigade at the battle of Pea Ridge, and after the engagement pursued the defeated foe as far as the Boston mountains. His gallantry on this occasion won the enthusiastic admiration of his men, who presented him with a handsome sword. In the Arkansas campaign of 1862 he commanded a brigade, and in 1863 was assigned first to the command of the district of east Arkansas, and later to the command of the 2nd cavalry division of the army of the Tennessee. In the Vicksburg campaign he led the advance, under General Sherman, in pursuit of Johnston, whom he overtook and defeated in an engagement at Canton, Miss., finally forcing him to retreat across Pearl River. His conduct in this engagement was rewarded in January, 1864, with promotion to the rank of brigadier-general, and he was given command of a division of the 7th corps, and also of the district including western Arkansas and the Indian territory. At the close of the war he retired to private life with the rank of brevet major-general, and engaged in the commission business at St. Louis, later removing to New Orleans, where he was president of the chamber of commerce for six years, and was conspicuously identified with the procuring of the congressional appropriation for the Eads jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi river. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention, 1868, and in the convention of 1884 he was an active supporter of Mr. Blaine's candidacy. In 1889 he was appointed assistant secretary of the interior, and in adjudicating the appeals from the adverse decisions of the pension commissioners some of his rulings attracted great attention, and the department collected and published these rulings in four large volumes.. General Bussey resigned from the interior department in 1893, and opened an office in Washington, D. C., where he conducted a general law practice before the district courts, the departments and congressional committees.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Emerson Opdycke, soldier, was born in Hubbard, Ohio, Jan. 7, 1830; son of Albert (who served in the war of 1812) and Elizabeth (Harmon) Gilson Opdycke; grandson of Capt. Albert (a Revolutionary officer) and Martha (Hendrickson) Opdycke, and a descendant of Louris Jansen and Christina Opdyck of Holland, who settled in New Netherlands previous to 1653, and resided at Gravesend, Long Island, N.Y., 1655. He attended the district school, and was a saddle and harness maker in Warren, Ohio. He removed to California, and was a clerk in San Francisco, 1855-57, returning to Warren, Ohio, in 1857. He was married, March 3, 1857, to Lucy Wells, daughter of Benjamin Stevens of Warren, Ohio. He was mustered in the volunteer army in July, 1861; was commissioned 2d lieutenant in the 41st Ohio regiment, Aug. 26, 1861; was promoted captain in January, 1862, and was acting major of the regiment at Shiloh, where he led an important charge. He recruited the 125th Ohio volunteers and was commissioned its colonel, Jan. 1, 1863, serving in the movements against Chattanooga, 1863, at Chickamauga, where he lost one-third of his regiment, and at Chattanooga, Nov. 25, 1863, where he led his command, a demi-brigade, in the storming of Missionary Ridge. He participated in the Atlanta campaign, where he was the first to reach the crest of Rocky Face Ridge; received a severe wound at Resaca, and in June, 1864, led three regiments in one of three unsuccessful assaults on Kenesaw Mountain. He commanded the 1st brigade, 2d division, 4th army corps, from August, 1864, and at Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864, and led his brigade without orders into a gap caused by the Federal forces falling back, thereby gaining a victory. In the battle of Nashville he pursued the enemy to the Tennessee river, and his brigade was prominent in repelling Hood's invasion of Tennessee. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, and brevetted major-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, to date from Nov. 30, 1864, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Franklin. He commanded a division at New Orleans, La., until January, 1866, when he resigned and entered the wholesale dry goods business in New York city. He is the author of: Notes on the Chickamauga Campaign in Vol. III. "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," pp. 668-71 (1884). He died in New York city, April 25, 1884.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor