David Sloane Stanley (1 June 1828 – 13 March 1902) was a Major-General of the US Army who commanded the IV Corps of the Army of the Mississippi during the American Civil War.
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David Sloane Stanley was born in Cedar Valley, Ohio in 1828, and he graduated from West Point in 1852. In March 1861, he was promoted to Captain in the US Army after fighting Native Americans on the frontier, and he led his men to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas when the American Civil War broke out in 1861. He guarded the Union supply trains at Wilson's Creek in Missouri and took part in the fighting at New Madrid and Island No. 10, later fighting at Corinth and Stones River as a division commander of the Army of the Mississippi. Stanley missed the Battle of Chickamauga in late 1863 due to illness, but he became a divisional commander of the IV Corps in 1864 during the March to the Sea campaign in Georgia and South Carolina. Stanley was given command of the IV Corps and sent to reinforce Tennessee against Confederate invasion later that year, and he led a decisive counterattack against the Confederates at the Battle of Franklin in November 1864. He returned to corps command after the Battle of Nashville, and he led the 22nd US Infantry in the Dakota Territory until 1874. In 1879, he was sent to Texas to suppress Native Americans in the west of the state, and he commanded the departments of Texas and New Mexico until his 1892 retirement. He died in Washington DC in 1902 at the age of 73.
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