Henry Page

Then living in Boston, age 25, he enlisted on 13 June 1861 in the 11th Massachusetts Infantry and was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Company E on 10 September 1861 for his actions at Bull Run. Assigned to General Hooker's staff on the Peninsula and soon after to Colonel Ingalls, QM, Army of the Potomac.

He was with the Headquarters staff at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

Appointed Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, US Volunteers on 26 November 1862 for service at Antietam. On staff of the Army of the Potomac to May 1864. Assigned to General Grant and by June 1864 was acting chief QM of the Army Cavalry Corps. He was with General Sheridan on the Valley Campaign and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and chief QM of the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac on 11 July 1864. He was honorably discharged at Little Rock, AR in July 1867.

On 13 March 1865 he was honored by brevets to Major, Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel of Volunteers for faithful and meritorious service during the War. He was elected Treasurer of Arkasas and was chief engineer of the Little Rock Volunteer Fire Department. He was appointed US Indian Agent for the Southern Utes in Colorado in 1879, and was later the disbursing agent and chief clerk of the Utah Commission, Salt Lake City. He was commissioned Major and Commissary of Subsistence from 16 July 1898 to 31 May 1899 for service during the Spanish American War.

Basic service data from Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines1 and from Heitman2. Further details and his photograph from Powell3. His life dates and burial information from his gravesite on Findagrave.

The Library of Congress has a photograph of him on horseback taken in August 1863.

03/04/1836; Sharon, VT

04/13/1918; Salt Lake City, UT; burial in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, UT