Civil War and Later Career
A few months after the start of the American Civil War in early 1861, President Abraham Lincoln commissioned Denver a brigadier general in the volunteer army on August 14. During early 1862, Denver commanded the 3rd Brigade/5th Division under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman during the Siege of Corinth. In November 1861, he was ordered to report to Fort Scott in Kansas. In December, he assumed command of all Federal troops in Kansas. Denver subsequently served on garrison duty in that state until his resignation from the Union Army on March 5, 1863.
After the end of the war, Denver practiced law in Washington, D.C., and Wilmington, Ohio. He served as a delegate to Democratic National Convention in 1876, 1880, and 1884. He was mentioned as possible Democratic presidential nominee in 1876 and 1884, although his name was never offered into formal nomination.
Denver reportedly visited Denver, Colorado in 1875 and 1882, but complained that his visits received little affection from the residents of the city named after him.
He died in Washington, D.C. in 1892 and is buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery in Wilmington, Ohio.
His son, Matthew R. Denver, was a U.S. Congressman from Ohio from 1907–1913.
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