Robert Ogden Tyler (31 December 1831-1 December 1874) was a Union Army Brigadier-General who commanded the artillery reserve of the Army of the Potomac at the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg and a division during the Overland Campaign amid the American Civil War.
Biography[]
Robert Ogden Tyler was born in Hunter, New York in 1831, the nephew of Daniel Tyler. He graduated from West Point in 1853, and he served in the US Army in Washington, Utah, and Minnesota before the outbreak of the American Civil War. He was appointed colonel of the 4th Connecticut Infantry Regiment at the start of the war before retraining them as the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment, and he commanded the Army of the Potomac's siege train during the Peninsula Campaign and was commended for his service at the Battle of Hanover Court House, the Battle of Gaines' Mill, and the Battle of Malvern Hill. He later commanded the artillery reserve at the Battle of Chancellorsville and the Battle of Gettysburg, repelling Confederate attacks on Cemetery Ridge and Cemetery Hill at the latter battle. In 1864, Tyler was given command of an infantry division, but he was wounded in the ankle at the Battle of Cold Harbor and was breveted a major-general before being mustered out. His wounds contributed to his declining health, and he died in Boston in 1874 and was buried in his native Hartford, Connecticut.