Rollin M. Strong (July 27, 1830 – October 11, 1897) was an American businessman, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
He was educated at the Troy Conference Academy in Poultney, Vermont, and moved to Wisconsin in June 1850.
[8] He was in command of the Union defenders stationed at Newbern, North Carolina, and successfully repelled a Confederate attack in the Winter of 1864.
[6] In April 1864, the regiment was shipped back to Virginia and organized into XVIII Corps in the Army of the James.
The colonel of the 19th Wisconsin Infantry, Horace T. Sanders, was placed in command of their brigade, leaving Lt.
Strong led the charge against a Confederate fort at the Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road, where the regiment suffered its most severe casualties of the war.
[1] He was one of the founding directors of the Baraboo Valley Air-Line Railway, and worked on that line until it was acquired by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad.