Henry Beebe Carrington (1824-1912) - Find a Grave Memorial

Civil War Union Brigadier General. Prior to the Civil War, he was Adjutant General of the Ohio State Militia. When President Lincoln issued the call for troops, he organized the volunteer regiments that were placed in Virginia and was commissioned Colonel of the 18th Ohio Infantry in May 1861. In 1862, he was sent to Indiana and established an intelligence network to deal with rebel sympathizers. He was promoted to Brigadier General in command of the District of Indiana, and his intelligence sources were instrumental in quelling the operations of political societies and enemies against the Union. In 1864, he rejoined the 18th Ohio and completed his war duty in the Army of the Cumberland. Following the Civil War, he was made commander of the Mountain District, Department of the Missouri, and moved his regimental headquarters to Colorado in 1866. He conducted military operations amid many attacks from hostile Sioux Indians until he retired from active service in 1870 due to wounds received in the line of duty. From 1870 to 1878, he was a professor of military science at Wabash College, Indiana, and authored many orations on the history of war. He was buried on October 28, two days after he died on October 26. He is buried in lot 1283 B, Violet Path. The plot is 15 by 20. He is in grave 15. Internment number 4171

Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith