Daniel Tyler

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Daniel Tyler (January 7, 1799 – November 30, 1882) was an iron manufacturer, railroad president, and one of the first generals of the American Civil War.

Tyler was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1819. He resigned his commission in May 1834 and became an iron manufacturer, developing blast furnaces and rolling mills. He was the president of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad and the Macon and Western Railroad.

At the start of the Civil War, Tyler volunteered to be an aide de camp to Brig. Gen. Robert Patterson in April 1861. He served briefly as the colonel of the 1st Connecticut Infantry regiment and then commanded a brigade in Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell's Army of Northeastern Virginia, with which he fought in the First Battle of Bull Run. He was promoted to brigadier general on March 13, 1862.

He resigned his commission in April 1864 and moved to New Jersey, then to Alabama. He founded an Anniston iron manufacturing company and was president of the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad.

Tyler died in New York City and is buried in Hillside Cemetery, Anniston, Alabama.

[edit] References

• Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.

[edit] External links

• Daniel Tyler Memorial at Find A Grave