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Home Town Schenectady
Last Address Schenectady, NY
Date of Passing Nov 08, 1897
Location of Interment Schenectady Memorial Park - Schenectady , New York
Wall/Plot Coordinates Section M-3, Landon Plot, Lot 7
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. An 1848 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, he was assigned to the Engineer Corps, and would serve as an army engineer for the next forty years.
In 1852 he was assigned to West Point as an Assistant Professor of Military Engineering, serving in that role for two years. In 1858 he was part of the United States Army Expeditionary force led by Colonel (and later Civil War Confederate general) Albert Sidney Johnston against the Mormons in Utah.
When the Civil War began he was promoted to Captain, US Regular Army, and led engineering battalion in the Union's Army of the Potomac. At the beginning of 1863 he was assigned as Chief Engineer for the Department of the South, serving untul June 1863. In that month, he was transferred back to the Army of the Potomac, and assigned as it's Chief Engineer while the amry was in the midst of the Gettysburg Campaign.
He would serve in this duty through the rest of the war, and was present when the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia in April 1865. On March 13, 1865 he was brevetted Brigadier General, US Regular Army for "gallant and meritorious services during the siege of Petersburg, Va., and in the campaign terminating with the surrender of the insurgent army under General Robert E. Lee".
He remained in the post-war Regular army, rising to the rank of Brigadier General, and serving as the United States Army's Chief Engineer from 1886 until he retired in 1888.
Civil War
From Month/Year
January / 1861
To Month/Year
May / 1867
Description The American Civil War was an internal conflict fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history.
Among the 34 U.S. states in February 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the U.S. to form the Confederate States of America. War broke out in April 1861 when Confederates attacked the U.S. fortress of Fort Sumter. The Confederacy grew to include eleven states; it claimed two more states, the Indian Territory, and the southern portions of the western territories of Arizona and New Mexico (called Confederate Arizona). The Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by the United States government nor by any foreign country. The states that remained loyal, including border states where slavery was legal, were known as the Union or the North. The war ended with the surrender of all the Confederate armies and the dissolution of the Confederate government in the spring of 1865.
The war had its origin in the factious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories. Four years of intense combat left 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers dead, a higher number than the number of American military deaths in World War I and World War II combined, and much of the South's infrastructure was destroyed. The Confederacy collapsed and 4 million slaves were freed (most of them by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation). The Reconstruction Era (1863–1877) overlapped and followed the war, with the process of restoring national unity, strengthening the national government, and granting civil rights to freed slaves throughout the country.
