Person

Charles Ewing

American attorney and Union Army general during the American Civil War

b. 1835 CE – d. 1893 CE World The Far West

Charles Ewing, (March 6, 1835 – June 20, 1893) is an attorney and Union Army general during the American Civil War.

He is the son of Interior Secretary Thomas Ewing, the brother of Thomas Ewing, Jr. and Hugh Boyle Ewing, and the foster brother and brother-in-law of William T. Sherman.

Ewing's sister and Sherman's wife is Ellen Ewing Sherman.