Oscar Hugh La Grange (3 April 1837 – 5 January 1915) was a Brigadier-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.
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Oscar Hugh La Grange was born in Fulton, Oswego County, New York in 1837, and he became an active abolitionist and a member of the Jayhawkers during Bleeding Kansas.When the American Civil War broke out, he joined a regiment of Wisconsin volunteers, and he became a brigade commander in the Army of the Cumberland under William Rosecrans. La Grange fought at the Battle of Chickamauga and was captured at Rocky Face Ridge, only to be exchanged three months later. In 1865, he defeated the Confederate States Army at West Point, during which the Confederate general Robert C. Tyler was killed. La Grange became a Brigadier-General in 1866, and he died in New York City in 1915.