Jesse L. Reno

Jesse Lee Reno was a career United States Army officer who served in the MexicanAmerican War, the Utah War, the western frontier, and as a Union General during the American Civil War. Known as a soldiers soldier who fought alongside his men, he was killed while commanding a corps at Foxs Gap during the Battle of South Mountain. Reno County, Kansas, El Reno, Oklahoma, Reno, Nevada, Reno, Pennsylvania and Fort Reno in Washington, D.C. were named after him.

Reno was born in Wheeling, Virginia , the thirdoldest of eight children of Lewis Thomas and Rebecca Reno. His ancestors changed the spelling of their surname Renault to the more Anglicized Reno when they arrived in America from France in 1770. His family moved to the Franklin, Pennsylvania, area in 1830, and Reno spent his childhood there.

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