Henry Whitely Patterson

He studied the law, then practiced in Uniontown, PA from 1857 until the start of the War. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in Company G, 8th Pannsylvania Reserves on 24 April 1861, was promoted to Adjutant in July 1861, and served with them to November 1861. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 4th US Infantry, to date from 24 October 1861. He was acting Regimental Adjutant from December 1861. Present at Yorktown, Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill, Manassas, and Antietam.

Assigned to Company D, he was acting Adjutant on the Campaign.

He was engaged at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, to the surrender in April 1865. Promoted First Lieutenant on 28 December 1862, and as Regimental QM in 1863. He was then an aide-de-camp to commander, First Regular Brigade, Army of the Potomac in 1863.

Promoted Captain in April 1866, but unassigned in 1869 - probably while he was at Fort Fetterman, Wyoming Territory. He resigned in 1870. By 1873 he was living in Allgheney City, PA. He worked for the Pittsburg Steel Casting Company - serving as the Treasurer - until his death at age 46.

Basic military information from Powell,1 Heitman,2, and Bates.3 His role at Antietam from Captain Dryer's Report. Details from family genealogists and a sketch in Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College (1902).

He married Louisa Cass Dawson (b. 1839 or 1836) in 1866.

He was a signer, as witness, of the Fort Laramie Treaty (1868) between the United States and the Sioux Nation. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled on a case involving his estate in 1896.

01/26/1836; Uniontown, PA

05/31/1882; Pittsburg, PA; burial in Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA