Felix A. Reeve

Felix Alexander Reeve (September 4, 1836 – November 15, 1920) was a Tennessee Unionist who fought for the North in the American Civil War.

Felix Alexander Reeve was born in Cocke County, Tennessee, on September 4, 1836.

[1] During the Civil War Reeve remained loyal to the Union and raised the 8th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, which organized at Camp Dick Robinson and Camp Nelson in Kentucky from November 1862 to August 1863.

[7] In 1880 Reeve moved to Washington, D.C., to work for the United States Department of the Treasury.

[11] In 1908 Reeve played a role in the campaign for President when a 1906 letter from Grover Cleveland to Reeve, in which Cleveland disparaged Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan, was made public.