Neal Dow

Residence [Portland](http://civilwardata.com/active/hdsquery.dll?TownDesc?ME&Portland&) ME; 57 years old.

Enlisted on 12/31/1861 as a Colonel.

On 12/31/1861 he was commissioned into Field & Staff ME 13th Infantry
He was discharged for promotion on 4/28/1862

On 4/28/1862 he was commissioned into US Volunteers General Staff
He Resigned on 11/30/1864

Promotions:
* Brig-General 4/28/1862

Other Information:
born 3/20/1804 in Portland, ME
died 10/2/1897 in Portland, ME
Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, ME

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine
Generals in Blue, Lives of the Union Commanders
Dyer: A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion
Heitman: Register of United States Army 1789-1903
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NEAL DOW

Dow, Neal, brigadier-general, was born in Portsmouth,
Me., March 20, 1804, of Quaker parentage, was educated in
public schools and in the Friends, academy in New Bedford,
Mass., and was trained in mercantile pursuits, succeeding to
the management of his father's tannery in 1861. Early in life
he became a champion of the temperance movement, and in 1851
succeeded in getting through the legislature a radical, anti-
liquor law. He made many addresses on temperance throughout
the state, was elected mayor of Portland in 1851 and again in
1855, and was a member of the state legislature, 1858-59. On
Dec. 31, 1861, he was appointed colonel of the 13th Maine
regiment, which he had raised, as he had also the 2nd Maine
battery, and was assigned with his regiment to join Gen.
Butler's expedition to New Orleans. He was in the steamer
"Mississippi" with about 2,500 men when she was run aground on
Frying Pan shoals off the coast of North Carolina. Soon after
the arrival of the expedition at Ship island, he was
commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, April 28, 1862,
and was placed in command of the forts at the mouth of the
Mississippi and afterwards of the district of Florida. In the
attack on Port Hudson, May 27, 1863, he was wounded twice and
taken prisoner while lying a house near, and spent eight
months in Libby prison and at Mobile. He was exchanged for
Gen. W. H. Fitzhugh Lee in March, 1864 but his health was so
undermined from privations of prison life that he was unable
to take the field again, and on Nov. 30, 1864, he resigned his
commission. After the war, Gen. Dow resumed his temperance
work, and in 1880 was candidate on the Prohibition ticket for
the presidency, receiving 1O,305 votes. In 1884, as the
result of his many years of labor for the cause, the state of
Maine adopted an amendment forbidding forever the manufacture
or keeping for sale of intoxicating liquors. Gen. Dow died in
Portland, Me., Oct. 2, 1897.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 8
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