Sherman General Andrew Hickenlooper's Address at the Twenty-Third Meeting
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Sherman: General Andrew Hickenlooper's Address at the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, Chicago, Ill., October 7th, 1891 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Sherman: General Andrew Hickenlooper's Address at the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, Chicago, Ill., October 7th, 1891
Little did we realize that when next we met, it would be within the shadow of a parting sorrow, to pay this last sad tribute of respect, due from soldiers to a soldier's memory.
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Article by Brevet Brigadier General Andrew Hickenlooper (1837-1904) on the construction and explosion of the mine during the siege of Vicksburg. From Battles & Leaders.
Andrew Hickenlooper was an American politician, civil engineer and a Union Army lieutenant colonel of artillery and engineers. He also served as a vice-governor of the state of Ohio.
Background
Andrew Hickenlooper was born on August 10, 1837 in Hudson, Ohio, United States. He was a descendant of Andrew Hickenlooper, of Dutch stock, who in 1693 settled in York County, Pennsylbania. In 1836 a grandson, Andrew the third, removed with his wife, Abigail (Cox), of Irish blood, from the neighborhood of Greensburg, Pennsylbania, to Hudson, Ohio. Here Andrew the fourth was born on August 10, 1837.
Education
Hickenlooper attended first the public schools of Circleville and then St. Xavier and Woodward colleges, Cincinnati.
Career
In 1856 Hickenlooper entered the office of the city engineer in Cincinnati; in 1859 he was made city surveyor. When the Civil War began he recruited the 5th Ohio Independent Battery and saw service under Frémont at Jefferson City, Mo. , in the autumn of 1861.
The following March he was transferred to Grant's army. He distinguished himself in the campaign in western Tennessee and was rapidly advanced to the rank of chief engineer of the XVII Army Corps.
He accompanied Sherman on the Atlanta campaign and during the final march through the Carolinas, was present at the surrender of Johnston, and, on recommendation of Generals Howard, Sherman, and Grant, was brevetted brigadier-general on May 20, 1865.
In July 1866, Hickenlooper was appointed United States marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, but quitted this post in 1871 to become city engineer of Cincinnati. The next year the president of the Cincinnati Gas Light & Coke Company selected him as vice-president. Within six months, according to his superior, he knew more about the company's affairs than the president himself. From this office he advanced to the presidency in 1877, and although he allowed himself to become lieutenant-governor of the state in 1879, he refused reëlection, declaring that he would rather conduct the affairs of his company successfully than become president of the United States.
This devotion to business, which turned him from politics, deprived him of vacations and perhaps shortened his life. He fought business rivals as he had fought the Confederates, with all his might.
He published several papers and other writings, chief among which are The Battle of Shiloh (1903) and books dealing with phases of the industry in which he was engaged, notably Street Lighting (1899), Fuel-gas for Cincinnati (1893, 1896); and Fairy Tales, or Romance of an Arc Electric Light (1901).
In January 1903, he made a visit to Mexico in quest of health. At that time he was already suffering from cystitis, a disease which caused his death in his sixty-seventh year.
Hickenlooper found time to engage in civic affairs. In politics a Republican, he was for years a power in the political life of Cincinnati.
Connections
On February 13, 1867, Hickenlooper had married Maria L. Smith, the daughter of Adolphus H. and Sarah (Bates) Smith, and their home became a notable gathering place, where the old soldier loved to recount war-time experiences.
His descendants include son Smith Hickenlooper, a Federal Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and great-grandson John Hickenlooper, Governor of Colorado.
He is also related to pianist Olga Samaroff, (née Lucy Mary Olga Agnes Hickenlooper).