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John Wallace Fuller was born on July 28, 1827, at Harston, Cambridgeshire, England. His father, Benjamin Fuller, a Baptist clergyman and nephew of Rev. Andrew Fuller, one of the most famous English Baptists of his time, removed to the United States in 1833 and settled in Oneida County, New York.
The boy attended the public schools for a time, but before he was fourteen years old went to work in a bookstore in Utica and his education was largely acquired there by reading in the intervals of work.
Fuller started in business for himself as a publisher and bookseller and prospered until a considerable part of his plant was destroyed by fire in 1857. Meanwhile, he was a hard-working officer of the militia, was city treasurer from 1852 to 1854, and occasionally wrote for local publications; one of his poems is said to have been commended by Charles Dickens.
In 1858, he moved to Ohio and established a publishing and bookselling business in Toledo. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was asked to assist in drilling and disciplining new troops, and while so employed at Grafton, Virginia, he attracted the favorable notice of officers, who recommended him so strongly to the governor that he was appointed colonel of the new 27th Ohio Infantry, and was mustered in as such, August 18, 1861.
He served with his regiment in Pope’s operations at New Madrid and Island No. 10, and having succeeded by seniority to the command of the brigade, led it at the battles of Iuka and Corinth.
Originally the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of the Mississippi, its official designation was repeatedly changed as transfers and reorganizations took place, but throughout the war and afterward, it remained “Fuller’s Brigade” in the popular phrase, and for a considerable period, indeed, had no other official name.
Through the greater part of 1863, it was in garrison in Tennessee, but it was in the field against Forrest near the end of that year, and in 1864, as a part of the XVI Corps, Army of Tennessee (McPherson), it took part in the Atlanta campaign.
Fuller was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, January 5, 1864. He was with the brigade in the two months of almost continuous fighting in northern Georgia. At the battle of Atlanta and for some time afterward, he was in command of the division.
Again in charge of his brigade, he took part in the march to the sea and the campaign of the Carolinas. He resigned from the army on August 15, 1865, and resumed business in Toledo as a senior member of the firm of Fuller, Childs & Company, wholesale boot, and shoe merchants.
He was a collector of customs there from 1874 to 1881 and died in that city.
Prior to the Civil War, Fuller was a successful book publisher in Toledo, Ohio. In August 1861, he organized the 27th Ohio Infantry, was appointed Colonel in command and served in Missouri until March 1862. In 1863, he led the 27th Ohio in actions through Tennessee, Mississippi and the Expedition to Northern Alabama. In January 1864, he was promoted Brigadier General, commanding the 4th Division XVI Corps in the Atlanta Campaign and through the March to the Sea, Carolinas Campaign. For distinguished service, he was brevetted Major General of US Volunteers on March 13, 1865. After the war, he resumed publishing and was a US Collector of Customs.
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Fuller’s success as a soldier was largely due to his appreciation, at the outset, of the necessity of firm discipline and thorough training, an understanding which many of the volunteer officers acquired only through experience.
Courteous and kindly in manner, always apparently cheerful, he was notably popular with those who served under him.
In 1851, Fuller married Anna, daughter of Dr. Josiah Rathbun, a Utica physician.
20 June 1826 - 4 June 1901
23 September 1854 - 2 May 1927
20 July 1859 - 11 March 1947
29 October 1864 - 22 June 1932
31 October 1861 - 12 May 1937
29 March 1857 - 16 December 1937
19 October 1852 - 4 October 1931
