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(c. 1833 - ?)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Company Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 23 year old clerk, he enlisted as Private, Company H, 10th United States Infantry in Philadelphia, PA on 1 May 1856 and was First Sergeant when he reenlisted in May 1861 at Fort Wise in the Colorado Territory (Major John Sedgwick, 1st US Cavalry, commanding). He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 10th US Infantry on 24 October 1861 at Fort Union, NM.
On the Campaign
He commanded Company G of the 2nd US Infantry at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 12 June 1863 and was regimental Quartermaster to 6 December 1864. He was appointed Captain of Company B to date from 13 September 1864 but resigned his commission on 10 June 1865.
References & notes
More on the Web
See much more about Fort Wise, CO in 1860-62 in a piece by Morris F. Taylor in the Colorado Magazine of Spring 1969, online from History Colorado.
Birth
c. 1833; Perthshire, SCOTLAND
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. 836 [AotW citation 26388]
2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 051, pg. 205; Vol. 057, pg. 18 [AotW citation 26389]