Richard Irving Dodge

United States Army officer and author

Richard Irving Dodge (May 19, 1827 – June 16, 1895) was a colonel in the United States Army.Dodge was born in North Carolina and died after a long and successful career in the U.S.

Army.He began as a cadet in 1844 and retired as a Colonel May 19, 1891.Dodge was Aide-De-Camp to General William Tecumseh Sherman from 1881–1882.

In the second publishing of his memoirs General Sherman wrote, "... the vacancy made by Colonel McCook was filled by Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, Twenty-third Infantry then serving at a cantonment on the Upper Canadian—an officer who had performed cheerfully and well a full measure of frontier service, was a capital sportsman, and of a perfect war record.

He also remained with me until his promotion as Colonel of the Eleventh Infantry, 26 January 1882."

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