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I.G. Grover
(1832 - 1876)
Home State: Indiana
Education: Indiana Asbury University, Class of 1856
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 7th Indiana Infantry
Before Antietam
After college, he was a teacher and studied the law, and he was elected to the Indiana General Assembly in 1860. He enrolled as First Lieutenant of Company B, 7th Indiana Infantry for 3 months' service on 24 April 1861 and mustered out with them on 2 August. He enrolled again, for 3 years, as Captain of Company E, 7th Infantry on 13 September 1861. He was promoted to Major on 1 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He led the 7th Indiana Infantry, part of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division, First Army Corps. The brigade was held in reserve north of the Poffenberger farm at Antietam on 17 September 1862 to protect Major General Hooker's First Corps artillery posted there.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on 12 March 1863 and commissioned Colonel of the regiment on 23 April 1863. He was tried by a court martial brought by his brigade commander Lysander Cutler for "failing to obey marching orders on June 12 and July 18, 1863," but was acquitted. He was wounded and captured in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864, was held at Macon, GA, then exchanged at Charleston, SC on 3 August 1864. He mustered out on 20 Sep 1864 when his term expired.
He was honored by brevet to Brigadier General of Volunteers for his combat service at Carrick's Ford and in the Wilderness to date from 13 March 1865.
After the War
In 1870, going by Glant, he was County Clerk and lived with his retired father Ira in Washington Township, Decatur County, IN.
References & notes
His service basics from Heitman1 and the State of Indiana.2 Court martial details thanks to Jim Heen, via Civil War Talk. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 & 1870, also as Glant Grover, and James Sutherland's Biographical Sketches of the Members of the Forty-first General Assembly of the State of Indiana (1861). His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Medford Historical Society Civil War Photograph Collection.
He married Julia Katherine Wallingford (1842-1876) in December 1871; she died 3 months after her husband.
Birth
12/26/1832; Brownsville, IN
Death
05/30/1876; Greenburg, IN; burial in South Park Cemetery, Greensburg, IN
1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, p. 482 [AotW citation 31844]
2 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 2, pp. 8, 40, 43 [AotW citation 31845]