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(1842 - 1887)
Home State: Ohio
Command Billet: Company Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
He was commissioned First Lieutenant in the 11th United States Infantry 14 May 1861. He was honored by brevet to Captain for his actions on the Peninsular Campaign on 3 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He commanded Company B, 11th US Infantry on the Maryland Campaign.
The rest of the War
He received another brevet, to Major for gallantry at Gettysburg on 2 July 1863 and was promoted to Captain on 6 January 1864.
After the War
He remained in the Regular Army and transferred to the 16th US Infantry on 14 April 1869. He was appointed Major of the 13th US Infantry on 28 June 1885.
References & notes
More on the Web
There's a fine c. 1872 photograph (pdf) of him as Captain and one as Major c. 1885 (jpg) in the collection of the US Army Heritage & Education Center.
Birth
01/07/1842; Urbana, OH
Death
02/27/1887; Washington, DC; burial in Oak Dale Cemetery, Urbana, OH
1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 980 [AotW citation 21478]
2 Reese, Timothy J., Sykes' Regular Infantry Division, 1861-1864: A History of Regular United States Infantry Operations in the Civil War's Eastern Theater, Jefferson (NC): McFarland&Company, Inc., 1990 [AotW citation 21479]
