September 1862, he assumed command of X Corps and the Department of the South at Hilton Head, South Carolina, but died in Beaufort of yellow fever shortly after assuming his post. He is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Legacy Mitchellville, S.C., on Hilton Head Island, an African American community during and after the Civil War was named for him. A persistently bright region near the Mars south pole that was first observed by Mitchel in 1846 is named in his honor – 'The Mountains of Mitchel'. It is located near 70°S, 40°E. An impact crater on Mars was named in his honor. The new town (and later city) of Mitchell, Indiana was named for him after he surveyed it for the owners while working on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in the 1850s. (The second "L" was added later). The first post-Civil War freedmen's town created in the United States (on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina), Mitchelville, was named for him. Fort Mitchell, Kentucky — an aberrant spelling — was also named for him. A descendant and namesake, Lt. Ormsby M. Mitchel Jr., was awarded the Navy Cross in 1943 for extraordinary heroism in trying to save the crew of his doomed USS Plymouth after it had been struck by a torpedo fired by a German U-boat off the Virginia coast. See also List of American Civil War generals (Union) References Stealing the General: The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor by Russell S. Bonds Further reading Bell, Trudy E. (2019) Orator of the Stars, in Sky and Telescope, November 2019, pages 30–35 Brewerton, George Douglas. Lines to the memory of Major General O.M. Mitchell [i.e., Mitchel], who died at Beaufort, S.C., Oct. 30, 1862. Beaufort, S.C.: s.n, 1862. Campbell, John L. General O.M. Mitchell [I.E. Mitchel]: Wabash College, June 30, 1863. Crawfordsville: Wabash Magazine Association, 1863. Headley, P. C. Old stars; the life and military career of Major-General Ormsby M. Mitchel. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1883. Headley, P. C. The astronomer and soldier : the illustrated story life of General Mitchel. New York : G.A. Leavitt, 1870. Headley, P. C. The patriot boy, or, The life and career of Major-General Ormsby M. Mitchel. New York : W.H. Appleton, 1865. Mitchel, F. A. Ormsby Macknight Mitchel, Astronomer and General. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1887. Shoemaker, Philip S. Stellar Impact: Ormsby Macknight Mitchel and Astronomy in