Background
Edward F. Winslow was born on September 28, 1837, in Augusta, Maine, the son of Stephen Winslow and Elizabeth Julia Bass, and a descendant of Kenelm Winslow who came to Plymouth, Massachussets, from Droitwich, England, about 1629.
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Born in Maine, Edward F. Winslow is a direct descendant of a man who came to America on the first voyage of the Mayflower. Winslow moves to Iowa and is working as a railway contractor when the Civil War starts. Winslow volunteers, mustering in as the Captain of Company F, 4th Iowa Cavalry in October 1861. Winslow spends the next 18 months learning a cavalryman’s responsibilities and is appointed colonel of his regiment on the day Vicksburg falls. Winslow is assigned greater and greater responsibilities as he rises to the rank of brigadier general by the end of the war. His narrative includes analyses on the use of cavalry during the Union campaigns from July 1863 through April 1865 in the states of Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Discover how a young man in his twenties, with no military training prior to the war, rises to the rank of brigadier general during the American Civil War.
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Edward F. Winslow was born on September 28, 1837, in Augusta, Maine, the son of Stephen Winslow and Elizabeth Julia Bass, and a descendant of Kenelm Winslow who came to Plymouth, Massachussets, from Droitwich, England, about 1629.
In his formative years, Edward as a young boy received practical firsthand knowledge of construction methods and the coordination of construction work.
In search of a better economic situation, Edward moved to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, when he was nineteen years old, with the expectation of entering the banking business.
Becoming interested in railroad construction, however, he associated himself with the builders of the St. Louis, Vandalia, & Terre Haute Railroad. When the Civil War interrupted this enterprise, Winslow, in August 1861, recruited at Ottumwa, Iowa, Company F, 4th Iowa Cavalry, of which he became captain. The regiment was mustered into the service November 3, 1861, and, after being equipped in St. Louis, was sent to join the Army of the Southwest, commanded by Gen. Samuel R. Curtis. Winslow's first engagement was at Little Rock. At Helena he acted as assistant provost marshal of the district of eastern Arkansas, and received his majority January 3, 1863. In April his regiment was attached to General Sherman's XV Army Corps, and from then until after the investment of Vicksburg was the only cavalry regiment in Grant's army. On May 12, 1863, Winslow was wounded at Fourteen-mile Creek.
He was appointed colonel, July 4, 1863, and given command of the cavalry forces of the XV Corps, with the rank of chief of cavalry. His command was always on the outer lines of the army at Vicksburg. In February 1864 it repulsed General Polk, advancing from Jackson, destroyed the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, and took the city of Jackson, Mississippi. In April 1864 Winslow was given command of a brigade, consisting of the 3rd and 4th Iowa and the 10th Missouri cavalry regiments, together with a battery of four guns. This brigade conducted itself with distinction at the battle of Brice's Cross Roads, June 10, 1864. Winslow was then given command of the Second Division of the Cavalry Corps of the district of West Tennessee. He took part in all the operations against General Price and was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, December 12, 1864, for gallantry in action. His brigade took active part in the expedition against Selma, Montgomery, Columbus, and Macon in the spring of 1865, and alone took the city of Columbus by assault against a superior force. After hostilities ceased he was in command of the Atlanta military district. He was honorably discharged on August 10, 1865.
Returning to civil life, Winslow resumed construction work on the St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute Railroad, and built fifty miles of it. In 1870, with Gen. James H. Wilson, he constructed the St. Louis & South-Eastern Railway. Under appointment from President Grant he served as expert inspector of the Union Pacific Railroad upon its completion and acceptance by the government.
From July 1874 to March 1880 he was vice-president and general manager of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, & Northern. He then became president of the New York, Ontario & Western and formed an association to build the West Shore Railroad. On November 1, 1879, he became vice-president and general manager of the Manhattan Elevated Railway in New York City. Subsequently, he served as president of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company, and vice-president of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company. Under this double responsibility his health failed and he was compelled to retire. Later he made his home in Paris. Winslow died on October 22, 1914, at Canandaigua, New York, from heart disease.
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On September 24, 1860, Edward F. Winslow married Laura-Laseur Berry, daughter of Rev. Lucien Berry of Greensburg, Indiana; they had no children.