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(1811 - ?)
Home State: New York
Command Billet: Commanding Detachment
Branch of Service: Cavalry
Before Antietam
He had service during the Mexican War period (1846-48) in the US Army Quartermaster's Department as a Master Teamster (wagonmaster).
In 1861, by then a 49 year old Oneida businessman, he got authority from the Governor to raise a Company of cavalry, enrolled with them at Oneida on 10 August 1861, and mustered as Captain of the Oneida Cavalry on 4 September (his commission wasn't issued until 12 November 1866).
On the Campaign
He was in command of Company, assigned as Headquarters Escort, Army of the Potomac in Maryland.
The rest of the War
He and the Company served as HQ escort for the rest of the war. He mustered out at Rochester on 10 December 1864 at the end of his term of service.
References & notes
His basic service from Phisterer.1
More on the Web
Fort Mann - a temporary outpost on the Santa Fe Trail in Kansas (1847-48), which he helped build - was named for him.
Birth
1811; Smithtown, NY
1 Phisterer, Frederick, New York in the War of the Rebellion, 6 volumes, Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1909-12, Vol. II, pp. 1187-1188 [AotW citation 26127]