page_title: Ulric Dahlgren
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Ulric Dahlgren / Early life
caption_attribution_description: Ulric Dahlgren.
context_page_description: Ulric Dahlgren was a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In 1864, he led an unsuccessful raid on the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia and was killed. The failed raid resulted in the Dahlgren Affair after incriminating documents were discovered on Dahlgren's corpse.
context_section_description: Ulric Dahlgren was born April 3, 1842, to Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren and Mary Clement Bunker.
   A second son to his parents, Dahlgren was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  
  Incidentally, his uncle, Charles G. Dahlgren, settled in Mississippi and would eventually join the Confederate Army as a general when the Civil War broke out.
  After completing school in 1858, Dahlgren's father supplied him with instruction in the field of civil engineering and by 1859, he was busy surveying land in Mississippi. In September 1860, with the support of his father, he ventured to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he found work at a law office.
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