Brigadier General Edward Hinkley Plummer (September 24, 1855 – February 11, 1927) was the Commander of Camp Dodge.

He was a cadet at the United States Military Academy from July 1, 1873 graduated June 14, 1877.

[2] He was commissioned in the Tenth Infantry and performed frontier duty from 1877 to 1898.

[2] In 1917, he organized and served as the first commander of the Department of the Panama Canal.

[2] He retired on November 30, 1918, at Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois.