D.P. Mann
(1811 - 1881)
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 1860 he was a merchant living in Lenox, Madison County, NY, In 1861 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 not issued until 12 November 1866).
On the Campaign
He was in command of his company and they were assigned as Headquarters Escort, Army of the Potomac in Maryland.
The rest of the War
He and the company served as Headquarters Escort for the rest of the war. He mustered out at Rochester on 10 December 1864 at the end of his term of service.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a retail paint dealer at Corry in Erie County, PA.
References & notes
His basic service from Phisterer.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture is from a photograph at the Library of Congress.
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
12/03/1811; Montgomery County, NY
Death
12/06/1881; burial in Pine Grove Cemetery, Corry, PA
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]