Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, Business Magnate. Ives graduated from Yale University in 1861 and shortly afterwards enlisted in the Union army as Adjutant of the 5th Connecticut. He was promoted to Captain on September 25, 1861, and was named Assistant Adjutant General, with the rank of Captain, on the staff of General Orris S. Terry in May of 1862. He was promoted to Major of the 1st Connecticut Calvary in January of 1864, followed by promotion to Lieutenant Colonel on November 1, 1864. During 1864 he was attached to the Army of the Potomac and took part in Sheridan's raid from May 9 to May 26, 1864. In the summer of 1864 he served under the command of General George Custer. On January 17, 1865 he was promoted to full Colonel, and after the capitulation of General Lee he commanded General Grant's escort when Grant went to Appomattox to accept Lee's surrender. He was mustered out on August 2, 1865 and promoted on the recommendation of General Philip Sheridan to brevet Brigadier General for gallantry at the battles of Ream's Station, Five Forks and Sailor's Creek. Ives was humbled by the promotion to General and so said to General Sheridan, but Sheridan remarked "This distinction is no gift, you have won it, your gallantry has earned it." He was the youngest General in the Union Army at the time of his promotion being only twenty four years old. In 1867 he became a stock broker on Wall street and by 1876 was elected vice president of the New York Stock Exchange and in 1878 he was elected president serving as president until 1879. In the late 1880's he changed professions becoming a banker and was chosen as President of The Western National Bank on April 1, 1890. Later he became the president of The Northern Pacific Railroad, director of The Mercantile Trust Company, The United States Guarantee Company, The New York Stock Exchange Building Company and chairman of The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company.