1 NAME Orlando Metcalfe /Poe/
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2 PLAC Ohio State Auditor
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2 PLAC Union General in Civil War
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2 PLAC Chief Engineer forSherman in Georgia
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2 PLAC Engineer, Poe Locks, Sault Ste. Marie
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Well known soldier and engineer. Served in Union in Civil War.

Met and married Eleanor in Detroit, MI.[George Jacob Poe.FTW]


Sources: POE20-2,43-4,43-8,88

20-2 1832 07 Mar Orlando M. Poe was born in Bethlehem T., Stark Co., OH.
1856 He graduated military academy at West Point.
1860 He was promoted to 1LT and was on a lake survey when the Civil War began. He assisted in the organization of the OH volunteers and then served on Gen. George McClellan's staff at Rich Mountain.
1861 17 Jun Orlando Metcalfe Poe married Eleanor Carroll Brent at Detroit, MI.
1861 Sep Orlando Poe was promoted to COL, 2nd Regt., MI Volunteers. They assisted in the defence of Washington, D. C. and then participated in the Peninsular Campaign.
1862 29 Nov He was appointed BRIG GEN of Volunteers. He was at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
1863 Mar He became CAPT of Engineers.
1863 He commanded a Division of the 9th Army Corps. He became Chief Engineer of the Army of the Ohio. (He had a similar post under General W. T. Sherman during the invasion of Georgia and the march to the sea.
04 Dec Charles Carroll Poe was born in Perry T., Stark Co., OH.
1864 06 Jul Orlando was brevetted MAJ for gallant service at the seige of Knoxville.
01 Sep He was brevetted LTC for the capture of Atlanta.
01 Dec He was brevetted COL for the capture of Savannah.
1865 He was brevetted BRIG GEN for gallant and meritorious service in the campaign terminating in the capture of the insurgent army under GEN Joseph E. Johnston.
1865 Orlando was Engineer Secretary of the Lighthouse Board until 1870.
1866 09 Dec Winifred Lee Poe was born in Washington, D. C.
1870 He was commissioned MAJ. He supervised construction of the lighthouse on Spectacle Reef until 1873.
1873 He was Aide De Camp to GEN Sherman until 1884.
22 Jul Elizabeth Comstock Poe was born in Washington, D. C.
1876 10 Dec Orlando Warner Poe was born in Washington, D. C.
1882 He was commissioned LTC of the Engineers.
1888 He was commissioned COL.
1895 02 Oct Orlando M. Poe died at Detroit, MI, of injuries sustained during a routine inspection. He left his pedigree when he died. 20-2 also has Orlando dying in Washington, D. C. but this is probably not accurate.
43-4 1938 In his letter, Carroll C. FitzHugh mentioned CPT Thomas Ludwell Brent.
43-8 1938 Orlando M. Poes papers, the few he kept, are in the Manuscript Division fo the Library of Congress.

LCW For a fuller account of Orlando M. Poe's life, see DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY by Scribners, pp 28-3-29, POE (REF#75-22)

1. 2. Charles Carroll POE   b. 14 Dec 1863, Perry Twp., Stark Co., Ohio; d. Bef 1900.
2. 3. Winifred Lee POE   b. 9 Dec 1866, Washington, D. C.; d. 15 Nov 1891.
3. 4. Elizabeth Comstock POE   b. 22 Jul 1873, Washington, D. C..
4. 5. Orlando Warner POE   b. 10 Dec 1876, Washington, D. C.; d. Abt 1893.

Sources: POE20-2,43-4,43-8

43-4 Charles was married but there was no issue.

Sources: POE20-2,43-4

43-4 Winifred died from Scarlet Fever.

1. 6. Charles Carroll FITZHUGH   b. 14 Aug 1891.

Sources: POE20-2,43-4,43-8
43-8 1938 Betty FitzHugh wrote to Clayton Tyler.
43-4 1938 Charles C. Fitzhugh claims Betty changed her middle name, Comstock, to Carroll.
LCW 1872 One source has this as Betty's DOB.

Sources: POE20-2

Orlando W. Poe never married.

Sources: POE43-4

43-4 1938 Charles FitzHugh was a professional genealogist. His address was 4211-49th Street N.W., Washington, DC. Other than Elizabeth Comstock (Poe) FitzHugh, Charles was the only other living descendant of Orlando M. Poe. (Did he and his wife have children after 1938?)
Orlando M. Poe was opposed to family investigation. Charles said that family tradition had the POEs originating in Ireland, a story that a shipwrecked Spaniard left a legacy in the blue-gray eyes and heavy dark brows of this family's POE descendants. Charles had a great deal of material about the POEs. Charles claimed that George Jacob Poe had a brother, John, who went to North Carolina.

LCW This appears to be a very good source of information. Check for POE papers in the Llibrary of Congress Archives, in newspapers, in cosmopolitan articles, letters and clippings.