Civil War Union Army Brevet Brigadier General. An 1849 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, when the Civil War began he was serving as a 1st Lieutenant in the 3rd United States Regular Artillery. Promoted to Captain and transferred to the Regular Army Commissary of Subsistence Department, he would serve first as Chief Commissary of Subsistence of the District of West Tennessee, then of the Cincinnati, Ohio Union Army Depot. Promoted to Major on February 9, 1863, he was brevetted Brigadier General, US Regular Army on March 13, 1865 for "meritorious services during the war". However, his brevet commission would not be confirmed by the United States Senate until March 3, 1869. He remained in the Army after the war, rising to Commissary General of the Army, with the rank of Brigadier General. He retired in 1892, and died in Washington, DC in 1901.
Civil War Union Army Brevet Brigadier General. An 1849 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, when the Civil War began he was serving as a 1st Lieutenant in the 3rd United States Regular Artillery. Promoted to Captain and transferred to the Regular Army Commissary of Subsistence Department, he would serve first as Chief Commissary of Subsistence of the District of West Tennessee, then of the Cincinnati, Ohio Union Army Depot. Promoted to Major on February 9, 1863, he was brevetted Brigadier General, US Regular Army on March 13, 1865 for "meritorious services during the war". However, his brevet commission would not be confirmed by the United States Senate until March 3, 1869. He remained in the Army after the war, rising to Commissary General of the Army, with the rank of Brigadier General. He retired in 1892, and died in Washington, DC in 1901.
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