Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Astronomer and Civil War General (Abstract)

Volume 34 number 2 (2006)

Gerald P. Dyck

Abstract

(Abstract only) A few colorful episodes from the life of O. M. Mitchel will be presented: his ambitious efforts to found the Cincinnati Observatory; his popular lectures in astronomy; his daring schemes and untimely demise during the American Civil War.