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WINSLOW, Edward Francis, soldier, born in Augusta, Maine, 28 September, 1837. He was educated at the Augusta high-school, removed in 1856 to Mount Pleasant, Henry County, Iowa, and soon afterward became interested in the construction of railways. He was a captain in the 4th Iowa cavalry in 1861, and was promoted major, 3 January, 1863, and colonel on the day that Vicksburg fell. He then took part in the campaign against General Joseph E. Johnston, and soon afterward was appointed by General Sherman chief of cavalry, and placed in command of the cavalry forces of the 15th corps, which posts he held "till March, 1864. In February, 1864, he commanded the cavalry of General Sherman's army in the campaign against General Leonidas Polk, and successfully attacked the Confederate cavalry near Jackson. He was in command of a brigade of cavalry in the engagement, at Gun-town, Mississippi, in 1864, and after the defeat of the National forces covered the retreat. In October, 1864, Colonel Winslow's brigade formed part of General Alfred Pleasonton's force in pursuit of General Sterling Price. He was severely wounded at Big Blue river on 22 October, and was unable to resume his command till November. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, 12 December, 1864, with his brigade participated in the expedition against Selma, Montgomery, Columbus, and Macon in the spring of 1865, and on 16 April took Columbus, Georgia, by assault. Soon after retiring to civil life he engaged in the construction of railways. On I November, 1879, as vice-president and general manager of the Manhattan elevated railway in New York city, he took charge of that property and unified the system of control and management of its lines; but, having been elected president of the St. Louis and San Francisco railway company and vice-president of the Atlantic and Pacific railway company, he severed his connection with the Manhattan company, 31 March, 1880. He was also for several years president of the New York, Ontario, and Western railway company, and formed an association for the purpose of building the West Shore railway, which he completed in about three years.
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