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Hugh Boyle Ewing was born on October 31, 182, in Lancaster, Ohio, the fourth child of Thomas and Maria Wills (Boyle) Ewing.
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Hugh Boyle Ewing was born on October 31, 182, in Lancaster, Ohio, the fourth child of Thomas and Maria Wills (Boyle) Ewing.
He received his education under private tutors and later at the United States Military Academy, from which, however, he did not graduate.
In 1849, Ewing was caught by the gold fever and made the journey to California by way of New Orleans and Texas, thence across Mexico to Mazatlan on the Pacific Coast, and across the Cordilleras on muleback.
In 1852 he returned by way of Panama to Washington as the bearer of government dispatches.
He then completed his law studies and began to practise his profession in St. Louis, Missouri, and Dan McCook, in the law firm of Ewing, Sherman & McCook.
On May 6, 1861, Governor Dennison appointed him brigade-inspector of Ohio Volunteers and a month later he joined the forces under General McClellan.
He served under McClellan and Rosecrans in their West Virginia campaigns and in August 1861 was appointed colonel of the 30th Ohio Infantry.
At the battle of South Mountain, September 14, 1862, he led the charge which dislodged the enemy from the summit; and at midnight of that day he received an order assigning him to the command of a brigade.
In the battle of Antietam his brigade was stationed upon the extreme left of the army where, according to General Burnside’s report, "by a change of front and rear on his right flank, [he] saved the left from being completely driven in".
After this battle Ewing was favorably mentioned in Collonel E. P. Scammon’s report "for energy and skilful bravery"; and on November 29, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general.
He commanded a brigade under Sherman during the Vicksburg campaign; and while his troops lay before that city seized and burned the disloyal papers which were sent to his camp; confiscated and arrested the dealers selling "bad whisky" to the soldiers; broke up the vending of cigars and groceries by the soldiers "which he considered a demoralizing custom"; but "acknowledged his inability to check the vice of gambling".
He led the assaults made by General Sherman on the enemy’s works and upon the fall of Vicksburg was placed in command of a division.
At Chickamauga his division formed the advance of Sherman’s army and suffered great losses in carrying Missionary Ridge.
In February 1865 he was ordered to North Carolina and was planning an expedition up the Roanoke River when the war came to an end.
On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted major-general "for meritorious services during the war" and a year later was mustered out of the service.
Ewing traveled extensively in America and abroad and was the author of A Castle in the Air (1888); The Black List; a Tale of Early California (1893); and a number of magazine articles. Hugh Boyle Ewing died on June 30, 1905, in Lancaster, Ohio.
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As a soldier Hugh Ewing was capable, courageous, and efficient, though a severe disciplinarian.
In 1858, Hugh Ewing married Henrietta Young, the daughter of George W. Young of the District of Columbia. They had several children.
Charles Ewing was an attorney and Union Army general during the American Civil War.
Thomas Ewing, Jr. was an attorney, the first chief justice of Kansas and leading free state advocate, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and two-term United States Congressman from Ohio, 1877 - 1881.
