Luther Stephen Trowbridge (1836–1912), who published as L. S. Trowbridge, was an American Civil War soldier, lawyer, and public official. He was born on 28 July 1836 in Troy, Michigan, into a family with a military tradition — his father had served in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He attended Yale in 1857 but left before graduating to pursue law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858; he lived in Knoxville, Tennessee, from 1856 to 1868. He entered Union service on 2 September 1862 as a major in the 5th Michigan Cavalry, was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 10th Michigan Cavalry in August 1863 and to colonel in July 1864, and fought in engagements across Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, including the cavalry operations of the Gettysburg campaign that he later wrote about. He was brevetted brigadier general and major general of U.S. Volunteers on 15 June 1865 for faithful and meritorious services, and was discharged that September. After the war he served as provost marshal of eastern Tennessee before relocating to Detroit in 1868 to practise law. President Grant appointed him Collector of Internal Revenue for Detroit in 1875, and he later served as Detroit city comptroller, as vice-president of the Wayne County Bank, and from 1903 as appraiser at the Port of Detroit. He married Julia M. Buel, with whom he had six children. As an author he is best known for A Brief History of the Tenth Michigan Cavalry and The Operations of the Cavalry in the Gettysburg Campaign, a paper delivered before the Michigan Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion on 6 October 1886, along with other Civil War memoirs and addresses. He died on 2 February 1912 in Detroit and is buried in Elmwood Historic Cemetery.
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