James M. Tuttle


James Madison Tuttle was a soldier, businessman, and politician from the state of Iowa who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He commanded a brigade and then a division in the Army of the Tennessee in several campaigns in the Western Theater of operations. He led the first Union troops that entered the enemyheld Fort Donelson in 1862, paving the way for the forts subsequent surrender to Ulysses S. Grant and opening the Cumberland River as an avenue of invasion of the South.

James M. Tuttle was born near Summerfield, Ohio, in rural Noble County to James and Esther Tuttle. When he was ten years old, Tuttles family moved to Indiana, where his father, a Maineborn farmer who kept migrating westward, finally settled in Fayette County. Young Tuttle was educated in the common schools of Ohio and Indiana.

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