Lewis Golding Arnold

Lewis Golding Arnold
File:Gen-LGrnold.jpg Brig. Gen. Lewis G. Arnold
Allegiance	United States of America
Years of service	1837-1864
Rank	Brigadier General
Battles / wars	Seminole War, Mexican-American War, American Civil War

Lewis Golding Arnold (January 15, 1817-September 22, 1871) was a career Army officer and General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Arnold graduated from West Point in 1837, placing tenth in his class. He fought in the Seminole War, and the Mexican War, where he was severly wounded at Chuburusco. After the war he returned to command troops in Florida, and led a detachment against the Seminole Indians in the April 1865 Battle of Big Cypress.

After the outbreak of the Civil War he was promoted to Major in the 1st United States Artillery, was assigned to Fort Pickens off Pensacola, Florida in August 1861. He remained there until May 1862, have rendered invaluable service in defending the Fort, which remained in Union hands through the war. In October 1861, he helped repulse a Confederate attack on nearby Santa Rosa Island, and defiantly refused to surrender the outpost during three different Confederate artillery bombardments. In January 1862 he was promoted to Brigadier General, and in October 1862 was transferred to command the city of New Orleans after it fell to Union forces.

On November 10 of that year he was struck down by a stroke while reviewing troops, and was place in sick leave for over a year while his condition was hoped to improve. When it became obvious he would be permanently disabled, he was retired from the Army in February 1864. He died 8 years later in Boston, Massachusetts.