Oliver Otis Howard During the Civil War Small 279×320 Medium 558×640 Large 893×1024 Download Tiff Original 2092×2400 | (6.1 MB) Description Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 - October 26, 1909) was a career United States Army officer and a Union General in the American Civil War. Keywords American Civil War, Chanellorsville, general, Gettysburg, portrait, Union Galleries Famous People: H Source: Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 4) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)