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Henry Martyn Cist was born on February 20, 1839 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, the son of Charles Cist and Janet Cist.
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Henry Martyn Cist was born on February 20, 1839 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, the son of Charles Cist and Janet Cist.
Cist graduated in 1858 at the Farmers’ College (later Belmont College) in Hamilton County, studied law in the office of George Hoadly, afterward governor of Ohio, and was admitted to the bar shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War.
Cist entered the army as a private in the 6th Ohio Infantry, April 20, 1861, and served through the West Virginia campaign of that summer and fall, including the battles of Carrick’s Ford and Cheat Mountain. On October 22, 1861, he was appointed first lieutenant in the 74th Ohio. The assignment to his new regiment took him to the (old) Army of the Ohio, later renamed Army of the Cumberland, with which he was identified throughout the remainder of the war. He was soon detailed as an assistant adjutant-general, and as such served on the staff of a brigade at the battle of Murfreesboro, and on the staff of the commander of the army—first General Rosecrans and then General Thomas—in the Chickamauga, Atlanta, and Nashville campaigns. He was promoted captain, April 20, 1864, and major, March 13, 1865.
Upon his muster out of the service, January 4, 1866, with the brevet rank of brigadier-general of volunteers, he took up the practise of law, and was for a time mayor of College Hill, Ohio. His avocation was military history, especially of the Civil War, on which he accumulated one of the best private libraries in the country. He wrote extensively on the subject, for periodicals and encyclopedias, and published one book of some importance, The Army of the Cumberland (1882), in Scribner’s Campaigns of the Civil War series. This is a detailed account of the operations of the army from its organization as Buell’s Army of the Ohio until the spring of 1864, after which time it no longer operated independently, but as one of the group of armies under Sherman’s personal control. Failing eyesight finally compelled him to abandon both his professional and his literary work. His later years were largely spent in travel.
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Cist was one of the most active members of the Loyal Legion and of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, and for twenty-three years served as corresponding secretary of the latter organization.
Cist was married twice: on September 22, 1868, to Mary E. Morris of Urbana, Ohio; and on April 12, 1882, to Jennie E. Bare of Cincinnati.
