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J.H. Kellogg
(1836 - 1919)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Education: US Military Academy, West Point, NY, Class of 1860;Class Rank: 13th
Branch of Service: Cavalry
Before Antietam
He graduated from West Point in July 1860, was brevetted 2nd Lieutenant of Dragoons, then commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, First United States Dragoons on 8 January 1861. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 13 May, the Dragoons were redesignated the First US Cavalry on 3 August, and he was Adjutant from 13 January to 20 May 1862. He was promoted to Captain on 20 May 1862 and was on the Peninsula Campaign.
On the Campaign
He was with the Army of the Potomac on the Maryland Campaign on 1862, probably part of the Quartermaster's Guard detachment.
The rest of the War
He was appointed Colonel of the the 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry on 19 November 1862 and served with them in actions through April 1864, then was on leave, sick to November. He resigned his Volunteer commission on 17 December 1864. He was honored by brevet to Major, USA for his actions at Gettysburg, PA. He retired from the Regular Army for disability on 6 February 1865.
After the War
He was Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at West Point from 22 February 1865 to 23 August 1866 and taught Civil Engineering and Military Tactics, at Rutgers College, NJ to February 1870.
By 1880 he was a life insurance actuary in Chicago, IL, but in 1900 he was retired and living alone in as a boarder in Lexington, Lafayette County, MO. He was on the Army retired list as Major as of 23 April 1904.
References & notes
His service from Heitman,1 Hunt,2 source of his photograph, from Frederick H. Meserve's Historical Portraits (1913-15), NY State Library, and Cullum,3 source also of his presence in Maryland; his Cullum number is 1859. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Mary Elizabeth Norman (1841-1882) in December 1862 and they had a son, Norman (1867-1944).
Birth
10/01/1836; Erie, PA
Death
06/19/1919; Chicago, IL; burial in Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago, IL
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. 589 [AotW citation 29075]
2 Hunt, Roger D., Colonels in Blue: Union Army Colonels of the Civil War - Mid Atlantic States, Mechanicsburg (PA): Stackpole Books, 2007, pp. 93-94 [AotW citation 29076]
3 Cullum, George Washington, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the US Military Academy, 2nd Edition, 3 vols., New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1868-79, Vol. II, pp. 748-9; V4, 118; V5, 97; V6, 88 [AotW citation 29077]