Jeremiah Cutler Sullivan was an Indiana lawyer, antebellum United States Navy officer, and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was among a handful of former Navy officers who later served as infantry generals during the war.
Jeremiah C. Sullivan was born in Madison, Indiana. He was the son of Virginiaborn attorney Jeremiah Sullivan, who served as a justice of the Indiana Supreme Court and coined the name Indianapolis for the new state capital. He was the younger brother of Algernon Sydney Sullivan, New York attorney and founder of the Sullivan amp Cromwell law firm.
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