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About Eleazer A. Paine
Eleazer Arthur Paine was an American lawyer, author and a Union officer from Ohio. He provoked controversy as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, while commanding occupation troops in western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee in the 1860s. Paine was charged with brutality toward civilians and violating their civil rights. He was known to have suspected spies summarily executed in the town square of Gallatin, Tennessee while based there. He had directed the occupation's protection of railroads and policing of civilians in Middle Tennessee from there. He was replaced in April 1864.
Everything about Eleazer A. Paine →- Occupation
- military officer, lawyer, judge, jurist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 10, 1815
- Died
- December 16, 1882