Orville E. Babcock
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Orville Elias Babcock was an American engineer and general in the Union Army during the Civil War. An aide to General Ulysses S. Grant during and after the war, he was President Grant's military private secretary at the White House, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds for Washington D.C., and a Florida-based federal inspector of lighthouses. Babcock continued to serve as lighthouse inspector under Grant's successors Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, and Chester A. Arthur.
Orville E. Babcock (left) and Orlando M. Poe (right), Union Engineers in Ft. Sander's salient. Photograph by Barnard, 1863–1864.
Battle of Fort Sanders
Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House on April 9, 1865 Babcock is 4th from right.
Benjamin Bristow
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Benjamin Helm Bristow was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 30th U.S. Treasury Secretary and the first Solicitor General.
Bristow's birthplace, Edwards Hall
Battle of Shiloh
Bristow, America's first Solicitor General, federally prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan 1871