Francis Fessenden (18 March 1839 – 2 January 1906) was a Union Army Major-General during the American Civil War.
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Francis Fessenden was born in Portland, Maine in 1839, the son of US Senator William P. Fessenden and a brother of James Deering Fessenden. He joined the Union Army in 1861 as a captain, raising troops for the American Civil War before serving as a line officer in the Army of the Cumberland and being gravely wounded at the 1862 Battle of Shiloh. He later commanded a brigade in Washington DC, and he commanded a brigade during the 1864 Red River Campaign in Louisiana. He suffered a severe leg wound at Monet's Ferry, and his leg was amputated soon after; he was then relegated to garrison and supply train commands for the rest of the war. He retired in 1866 and served as the Republican Mayor of Portland in 1876. He died there in 1906.