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American Army officer
John Adair McDowell
(1825?1887)
[1]
was an American military officer and engineer who served as the first colonel of the
6th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
during the American Civil War. He was a younger brother of
Irvin McDowell
, the general best remembered for the
First Battle of Bull Run
, the first large Civil War battle. He was also the son of
Abram Irvin McDowell
, a former mayor of
Columbus, Ohio
.
McDowell had served in a militia company before the war.
[2]
He was given the rank of colonel on June 20, 1861. He led a brigade on the right side of Brigadier General
William Tecumseh Sherman's
division of Major General Grant's Army of the Tennessee at the
Battle of Shiloh
. His command consisted of his own 6th Iowa, the 40th Illinois, the 46th Ohio, and the 6th Indiana battery. Sherman considered McDowell a fit brigade commander and described him as a "good, kind-hearted gentleman." McDowell's brother Malcolm was a paymaster under Sherman's command and was a signal officer for his other brother Irwin.
McDowell resigned his commission on March 12, 1863.
John M. Corse
succeeded him as commander of the 6th Iowa. McDowell was a resident of
Keokuk, Iowa
, although he had been born in Ohio.
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