Moses M Bane (1825 - 1897)

Born 30 Nov 1825 in Athens County, Ohio

Died 29 Mar 1897 at age 71 in Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia

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Biography

The subject of this sketch is one who rendered valuable service to the nation in the protracted struggle from 1861 to 1865.

Col. M. M. Bane, was born in Athens County, Ohio, in 1825, and commenced life a poor boy. Succeeding in obtaining an education, however, at the age of twenty-one he entered Sterling Medical College, at Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated in 1844, and removed to Payson, Ill. Here he continued at his profession, and taking an active part in politics was elected to the Legislature of the State in 1860.

Serving a term in the Legislature, he returned to Payson and resumed the practice of medicine, at which he continued until the breaking out of the rebellion, when he took an active part in raising the 50th regiment Illinois infantry, of which he was commissioned Colonel. This position he held for three years, participating in the siege and capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, and also the battle of Shiloh, in which last he lost his right arm, and received a gun-shot wound in the left side. At this time Col. Bane was in command of the 3d Brigade, 16th Army Corps, which command he retained for upwards of two years.

After the battle of Shiloh the serious nature of his wounds necessitated his return to Quincy, where ho remained until 1862, when he again entered the field, being assigned command at Corinth, Miss., and was active in garrisoning that post during the siege of Vicksburg. In 1863, he was ordered to Pulaski, Tenn., where he commanded his old brigade, which was engaged for some time in rebuilding the Nashville & Alabama Railroad. His old regiment receiving a furlough as veterans, in 1864, he returned with them to Quincy, after which they again resumed the field, and participated with Sherman in the famous march to the sea. — In 1864, he was assigned command at Rome, Georgia, which position he held until July of the same year, when he was appointed Assistant Special Agent of the Treasury, in charge of abandoned property in Georgia. Resigning in May, 1865, he spent the following winter at Harvard Law College, and in 1866 was appointed United States Internal Revenue Assessor for the 4th District of Illinois. This position he filled until 1869, when he received an appointment as United States Internal Revenue Detective, which however he resigned the same year.

It may be truly said that Col. Bane served his country well and faithfully in the hour of her extremity, and in addition to his services as a gallant and able officer sacrificed much in the cause. Gifted and accomplished, shrewd and sagacious, he ranks as an influential leader of the Republican party in Illinois, and is destined in the future to prominence and distinction in the political arena.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ History of Quincy and Its Men of Mark, 1869

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