Henry Bascom Sturgis

By 1850 he was a cabinet maker living with his parents in Des Moines County, Iowa. Younger brother of Brigadier General Samuel Sturgis, he was appointed Captain and additional aide de camp (ADC) of Volunteers on 21 June 1862 and assigned to General Sturgis' staff.

He was an aide-de-camp (ADC) to General Sturgis' on the campaign in Maryland and was at South Mountain on 14 September 1862, but was

separated from me [General Sturgis] after the battle of South Mountain by sickness and orders for other service, and could not join again in time to take part in the battle of Sharpsburg.

He resigned his commission on 14 June 1865.

In 1880 he was running a boarding house in Ottumwa, IA. By 1895 and to at least 1900 he was retired and living in Des Moines, but was working as a day laborer there at age 80 in 1905.

His service from Heitman1 and Letters Received by the Commission Branch, Adjutant General's Office, USA 1863-1870, online via fold3. Maryland detail from the General's after-action Report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850, 1880, and 1900, and the Iowa Census of 1895 and 1905. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Susan Waugh (1836-1916) in Keokuk, IA in December 1855 and they had 5 children.

12/05/1824 in PA

01/23/1911; Des Moines, IA; burial in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, IA