Manton Eddy

Lieutenant General Manton Sprague Eddy

Born	May 16, 1892 Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died	April 10, 1962 (aged 69) Fort Benning, Georgia, United States
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	1916–1953
Rank	Lieutenant General
Unit	Infantry Branch
Commands held	11th Machine Gun Battalion 114th Infantry Regiment 9th Infantry Division XII Corps United States Army Command and General Staff College Seventh Army United States Army Europe
Battles/wars	World War I World War II
Awards	Distinguished Service Cross Silver Star Legion of Merit (2)

Lieutenant General Manton Sprague Eddy (May 16, 1892 – April 10, 1962) was a senior United States Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II. During the latter conflict he served with distinction, commanding the 9th Infantry Division and later XII Corps in the campaign in Western Europe, playing a large part in the Battle of the Bulge in late December 1944.

Eddy graduated from Shattuck Military School in Faribault, Minnesota, in 1913. He enlisted in the Infantry Branch of the United States Army in 1916 and was commissioned as an officer as a second lieutenant of infantry in early 1918, the year after the American entry into World War I the previous April. With the rank of captain, he was a company commander in the 11th Machine Gun Battalion, part of the 4th Division of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF). He was sent to the Western Front with his division in May 1918 and was wounded in August, when the tide of the war had turned against the Germans. He recovered soon after and commanded a machine gun battalion until the end of the war on November 11, 1918.