Edward Washington Metcalf

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Date of Birth	August 1828
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Biography

Edward W. Metcalf was born in Ohio in August of 1828. By 1857, he was a judge in Elkhart, Indiana.

Metcalf joined the 129th Indiana infantry regiment in , and fought at the Battle of Nashville in late 1864. He was eventually promoted to Captain

By the end of the war, Metcalf had returned to Tennessee, establishing (on paper, June 9, 1865) the Cumberland Mining and Petroleum Company with fellow Union veteran and later Rock City teammate, Julius C. Hart. Around 1866-67, Metcalf also served as the city editor for the Nashville Press and Times newspaper. In 1867, Metcalf became involved in politics as a radical Republican, initially serving as a Davidson County delegate for Congressional candidate John Lawrence, with John Trimble ultimately winning the Republican Party nomination. Having abandoned the Republican Party, Metcalf would later support DH Mason (former editor of the Press and Times) on the Radical ticket.

By 1880, Metcalf had had enough of Tennessee, and had moved to Saline, Nebraska, where he married and spent the rest of his life. Captain Metcalf died

Sources

United States Census, South Fork Precinct Western village, Saline, Nebraska, 1900. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M31M-V5D

http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=037969BA-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A

"The Lawrence Convention." Nashville Union and Dispatch. 16 May, 1867: 3.http://www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038521/1867-05-16/ed-1/seq-3/

http://books.google.com/books?id=6K0TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA322&lpg=PA322&dq=edward+w+metcalf+saline&source=bl&ots=Qjp-18nNbZ&sig=eNWZxIE74t-4SDC2l0fUbalyOzM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dy7sU43JI_LIsASN-YLoDA&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=edward%20w%20metcalf%20saline&f=false

"The Radical Convention." Nashville Union and Dispatch. 9 June, 1867: 3. http://www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038521/1867-06-09/ed-1/seq-3/

Acts of the State of Tennessee. Nashville, 1865. P. 119. https://archive.org/stream/actsstatetennes21tenngoog#page/n149/mode/2up/

King's Nashville City Directory, 1867. http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/ArchiveIt/1867/HTML individual pages 1867/Page 216-217 1867.html

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Club	Years	Roles	Edit Association with Player
Rock City Base Ball Club of Nashville	1866	Founder