Samuel L. Christie

He enrolled as First Lieutenant, Company H, First Kentucky Infantry on 10 May 1861 and mustered at Pendleton, OH on 5 June. He was detailed as an aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Jacob Cox on 24 July 1861.

He was aide-de-camp (ADC) to General Cox on the Maryland Campaign and was mentioned by the General for his work on South Mountain in his after-action Report. On 17 September 1862 at Antietam, as Colonel George Crook commanding the 2nd Brigade of the Division remembered it later:

About ten a.m. Capt. Christ [sic] on Gen. Cox’s staff came to see me, and said, ‘The General wishes you to take the bridge.’ I asked him what bridge. He said he didn’t know. I asked him where the stream was, but he didn’t know. I made some remarks not complimentary to such a way of doing business, but he went off, not caring a cent.

He was promoted to Captain, Company A, First Kentucky Infantry on 18 or 19 October 1862 but was still on detached duty with General Cox. He resigned his commission due to illness and "private business" on 8 August 1863 at Cincinnati, OH - then serving with General Cox at Headquarters, District of Ohio.

He died young, about 33 years old, probably of tuberculosis.

His service information from the State of Ohio1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Thanks to Kevin Pawlak for the quote above from Martin F. Schmitt's General George Crook: His Autobiography (1946) in a fine post about Christie on Emerging Civil War. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a portrait photo collection of General Cox and his staff, from the Library of Congress.

c. 1837

10/30/1870; burial in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Omaha, NE