Eliakim Parker Scammon (27 December 1816 – 7 December 1894) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.
Biography[]
Eliakim Parker Scammon was born in Whitefield, Maine on 27 December 1816, and he graduated from West Point in 1837, served in the US Army during the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War, and worked as a professor in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he converted to Catholicism in 1846. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, Scammon was appointed colonel of the 23rd Ohio Infantry Regiment, commanding future presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley. His regiment was assigned to the IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, and he fought in the Battle of South Mountain and the Battle of Antietam. He was promoted to Brigadier-General in October 1862, and he was captured when Confederate partisans raided his steamboat on the Kanawha River on 3 February 1864. He was mustered out in August 1865, and, after the war, he served as US Consul to Prince Edward Island and as a professor.