John Adams Dix

John Adams Dix was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-Southern Maryland General Assembly, preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a system for prisoner exchange via the Dix–Hill Cartel, concluded in partnership with Confederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill.

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General Info

Male

Birth Place

United States of America, New Hampshire

Date of Death

April 21st, 1879

Died Aged

-90

Star Sign

Leo

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