Abel Streight

Abel Delos Streight (June 17, 1828 – May 27, 1892) was a peacetime lumber merchant and publisher, and was commissioned a United States Army / Union Army colonel in the American Civil War (1861–1865). His command precipitated a notable cavalry raid in April–May 1863, known as Streight's Raid into northern Alabama. He surrendered in Alabama in 1863 and was a prisoner of war for 10 months in the Confederate States capital of Richmond, Virginia. On March 12, 1866, his nomination for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general, to rank dating from March 13, 1865, was confirmed. He later became a politician, and served as a state senator in the Indiana Senate (upper chamber of the Indiana General Assembly - state legislature) back home in the state capital of Indianapolis, Indiana for two terms.