page_title: Darius N. Couch
section_title: American Civil War service
hierarchical_section_title: Darius N. Couch / American Civil War service
caption_attribution_description: English: photo of Darius N. Couch (1822-1897)
context_page_description: Darius Nash Couch was an American soldier, businessman, and naturalist. He served as a career U.S. Army officer during the Mexican–American War, the Second Seminole War, and as a general officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  During the Civil War, Couch fought notably in the Peninsula and Fredericksburg campaigns of 1862, and the Chancellorsville and Gettysburg campaigns of 1863. He rose to command a corps in the Army of the Potomac, and led divisions in both the Eastern Theater and Western Theater. Militia under his command played a strategic role during the Gettysburg Campaign in delaying the advance of Confederate troops of the Army of Northern Virginia and preventing their crossing the Susquehanna River, critical to Pennsylvania's defense.
  He has been described as personally courageous, very thin in build, and frail of health.
caption: Darius Couch as a major general in the Union Army
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