Nathaniel C. McLean
| Nathaniel Collins McLean | |
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Brig. Gen. Nathaniel McLean
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| Born |
February 2, 1815 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Died | January 4, 1905 (aged 89) Bellport, New York |
| Place of burial | Woodland Cemetery, Bellport, New York |
| Allegiance |
United States of America Union |
| Service/branch |
United States Army Union Army |
| Years of service | 1861-1865 |
| Rank |
 Brigadier General
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| Commands held |
75th Ohio Infantry Regiment 2nd Bde, 1st Div, XI Corps 1st Div, District of Kentucky 1st Bde, 2nd Div, XXIII Corps |
| Battles/wars | |
| Other work | Lawyer, Farmer |
Nathaniel Collins McLean (February 2, 1815 – January 4, 1905), was a lawyer, farmer, and Union general during the American Civil War.
Born in Warren County, Ohio, Nathaniel McLean was the son of John McLean, an 1856 and 1860 Republican presidential candidate and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States known as "the politician of the Supreme Court".
McLean was well educated, and graduated from Augusta College in Kentucky at the age of sixteen. He then attended Harvard College and received his J.D. He was married in 1838 to Caroline Thew Burnett, the daughter of a Cincinnati judge. While practicing law, he fell ill, and he was advised to travel to Europe and attempt to regain his health. Shortly after his trip, his wife died. He remarried in 1858 to a woman from Louisville, Kentucky.
At the beginning of the Civil War, McLean organized the 75th Ohio Infantry Regiment under authority from Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont and became its colonel September 18, 1861. McLean, with Lieutenant-Colonel R.A. Constable and Major Robert Reily, organized and trained the 75th in Wyoming, Ohio, (north of Cincinnati) at Camp John McLean, which he of course named after his father. The regiment was organized into a brigade commanded by Brig. Gen. Robert Milroy and assigned to duty in western Virginia under Frémont and the Mountain Department.
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