Pleasant A. Hackleman

Pleasant Adam Hackleman (* November 15, 1814 in Franklin County, Indiana, † October 4, 1862 at the Battle of Corinth, Mississippi) was an American lawyer, politician of the Whig Party and the U.S. Republican Party, and Brigadier General of the U.S. Army in American Civil War.

Life

Hackleman, son of Major John Hackleman, who served from 1812 in the British -American War, was initially employed as a farmer and then studied law. After his legal admission he was in May 1837, first as a lawyer in Rushville down, but he was elected in August 1837 to the probate judge ( Probate Court ) of Rush County, where he worked until 1841.

Then he began his political career in 1841 when he was elected as a candidate of the Whig Party as a member in the House of Representatives from Indiana. In 1842 he competed as a candidate of the Whig Party unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. After a subsequent several years as Clerk of Rush County, he ran as a candidate of the Republicans in 1858 again success for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1860 he was among the delegates at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, the Abraham Lincoln aufstellte a candidate for the office of U.S. president. In February 1861, he was also a participant in the Peace Conference in Washington, DC, the vain endeavored to prevention of the Civil War.

After the start of the Civil War, he began his military service as a colonel and was commander of the 16th Regiment of Indiana, before he found after the first battle of Bull Run in July 1861 for use in Virginia under the command of General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks.

On April 28, 1862 he was promoted to brigadier general and was then in June 1862 his Abkommandierung to the staff of General Ulysses S. Grant on the southwestern front. In the following years he took part only in the Battle of Iuka on September 19, 1862, before he fell on the second day of the second battle of Corinth.