Milo Smith Hascall

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Milo Smith Hascall (1829-1904) was an American soldier, born in Genesee Co., N. Y. In 1846 he moved to Goshen, Ind., and two years later was appointed a cadet at the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1852. After two years' service in the regular army he resigned his commission and went back to Goshen, where he became a lawyer and fille various political offices. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private, but was soon appointed aid-de-camp to General Morris, with the rank of captain, and assisted in organizing six volunteer regiments. On June 12, 1861 he was made colonel of the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers and took part in the successful West Virginia campaign. He was commissioned brigadier general of volunteers on April 25, 1862. Having been transferred to the Army of the Cumberland, he was put in command of a brigade which fought through the Tennessee Campaign (October, 1862 to March, 1863). At the battle of Murfreesboro (December 31, 1862 to January 3, 1864), he had command of the Sixth Division with Major General Crittenden. From June to August, 1863, he was in command of the District of Indiana, and afterward commanded a division in the Army of the Ohio, which took part in the defense of Knoxville (November to December, 1863). The next year he commanded the Second Division of the Twenty-third Army Corps in the Army of the Ohio during the invasion of Georgia. He resigned on October 27, 1864, and returned to Goshen, where he engaged in banking, but later entered the real-estate business in Chicago.