Who was General Oliver Howard?

[Leonardcrl]

Those of us who are Civil War Buffs and started our education in Elk County schools, may recall that the city of was named after a Civil War General named Howard.  The extent of our knowledge was embodied in the Wikipedia Page for Howard, Kansas; where there is a this single statement that in 1877 Howard was incorporated and named after Oliver O. Howard, a Union Army general during the Civil War, ..... 

I have to admit to no curiosity beyond that minimal fact until I read Jeff Shaara's, latest book, on the Civil War in the West; The Fateful Lightning.  Howard was one of Sherman's two corps commanders on that famous March to the Sea and there are more than 200 references to General Howard.  After finishing Fateful Lightning I went back and checked that embedded Wikipedia link.  This one hell of guy!

To get feel of what I discovered go to Amazon.com and find the book.  Take advantage of the Look Inside and in the Search Inside This Book search box. Enter Howard and the first 13 hits on page 7 - 11 of the print edition sets the stage for the rest of the book.

To those of you who have no interest in history my apologies for wasting your time. 

Regards
-=crl=-
Carl Leonard
leonarcrl@gmail.com

[Diane Amberg]

Thanks. I've always been interested in that sort of thing, especially since my great grandfather Jacob Amberg settled in and around Howard after he was mustered out after the Civil War, went to the new 7th Cavalry for a time, transferred to the 5th and finished his military service there.He spent some time in and around Chandler O.K. too, and founded a little town named Lydia. Isn't researching these things fun?