A Civil War General, writer of reports and survey artist in the West, John Tidball was born in Ohio County, West Virginia, and graduated in 1848 from West Point Academy where he was trained in topography.
He was an artillery lieutenant against the Seminole Indians in Oklahoma and in New Mexico. In 1853, he was among eleven artists named as railway survey artists to establish a route to the Pacific. In this group were John Mix Stanley, Richard Kern, and Frederick von Egloffstein.
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