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Federal (USV)

Captain

Henry Rutgers Stagg, Jr.

(1834 - 1891)

Home State: New York

Command Billet: Commanding Regiment

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 78th New York Infantry

 

see his Battle Report

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a prosperous 25 year old physician in Buffalo, NY. He mustered as Captain of Company B, 78th NY Infantry on 28 May 1862.

On the Campaign

"Lieut. Col. Jonathan Austin commanded the Seventy-eighth at the battle of Antietam, the regiment going into action with 12 officers and 209 men. Colonel Goodrich, of the Sixtieth New York, who was in command of the brigade, was killed early in the fight, and the command devolved on Lieutenant Colonel Austin. Capt. Henry R. Stagg took charge of the regiment."
(from Peck)

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Major in February 1863, and Lieutenant Colonel in April. He resigned and was discharged 13 May 1863.

After the War

He was involved with (at least) organizing the June 1866 Fenian raid into Canada from St Lawrence, NY.

He was living in Denver, CO in 1884.

References & notes

Quote above from John W. Peck's , 78th Regiment Infantry Historical Sketch, from New York At Gettysburg. Service information from State of New York1. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and the Saline County (KS) Journal of 3 April 1884. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Helen Hills and they had at least 2 children.

His father (1801-1847) was also a "distinguished Buffalo physician."

Birth

1834; Buffalo, NY

Death

1891; Buffalo, NY; burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 29 (for 1901), pg. 769  [AotW citation 7825]