Azariah Wall Doan (1824-1911) - Find a Grave Memorial

Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He was a law clerk and attorney in Clinton County, Ohio when the Civil War began in April 1861. He helped recruit a company of infantry from his county, and when that company was mustered as Company B into the 12th Ohio Volunteer Infantry on April 22, 1861 he was commissioned as a 1st Lieutenant. The unit was initially enlisted for a three month term, but in June 1861 it was reorganized and enlisted for three years. On June 18, 1861 Azariah Doan was promoted to Captain and commander of Company B, and would serve in that capacity for the next year of the war. On August 23, 1862 he was transferred to the 79th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He served with the 79th Ohio though the rest of the war, assuming official command on August 1, 1864 when Colonel Henry G. Kennett resigned. He led his men through the Summer 1864 Atlanta Campaign, the “March to the Sea” in the Fall of 1864, and the Campaign through the Carolinas in 1865 that culminated in the surrender of the Confederate Army under General Joseph E. Johnston in April 1865. Promoted to Colonel on June 8, 1865, he was never mustered in at that rank, and was honorably discharged the next day on June 9. On March 13, 1865 he had been brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers for “faithful and meritorious services during the war”. He returned to his law practice in Wilmington, Ohio, served a term in the Ohio State Senate, and later served as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas.

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