Orlando Metcalfe Poe (March 7, 1832 – October 2, 1895) was an United States Army officer and engineer in the American Civil War. After helping General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea, he was responsible for much of the early lighthouse construction on the Great Lakes.
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