. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . of the Cumberland, and was made his chief ofstaff. He was in the famous battle of Chickamauga, andwrote out ever)- order of that fatal day (19th of Septem-ber) excepting one, and that one was the blunder the day. Garfield volunteered to take the news ofthe defeat on the right to General George H. Thomas, whoheld the left of the line. It was a bold ride, under con-stant fire, but he reached Thomas, and gave the informa-tion that saved the Army of the Cumberland. For thisaction lie was made a major-general. On th
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . of the Cumberland, and was made his chief ofstaff. He was in the famous battle of Chickamauga, andwrote out ever)- order of that fatal day (19th of Septem-ber) excepting one, and that one was the blunder the day. Garfield volunteered to take the news ofthe defeat on the right to General George H. Thomas, whoheld the left of the line. It was a bold ride, under con-stant fire, but he reached Thomas, and gave the informa-tion that saved the Army of the Cumberland. For thisaction lie was made a major-general. On the jd of December, 1863, he resigned his commission and hastened to Washington to sit in Congress,to which he had been chosen fifteen months before. I lecontinued to serve in Congress until nominated for Presi-dent in 1880. On March 4, 1881, he took his seat asPresident, and was shot by a disappointed office-seekeron the 2d of July, 1881. 46 362 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). CAPTAIN ANDERSON P. LACEY, Captain Anderson P. Lacey was born in Cadiz, Ohio,December 11, 1835. He conies of a hardy, long-livedstock. His father, John S. Lacey, of English descent,emigrated from Delaware when a young man in his teens,and located in i )hio, where he became a prominent factorin opening up the eastern part of the State, lie enlistedin the United States service in 1813 to go to the relief ofGeneral Harrison, when the latter was hemmed in at FortMeigs. In the old stage-coach days he owned and op-erated a number of stage-lines radiating from Steubenvilleand Wheeling into all parts of the State. His motherwas of Puritan stock, being a descendant of Simon Hoyt,who was born in England in [595, and was one of thefounders of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1625. In1820 she emigrated to Cadiz, Ohio, where she met herfuture husband, with whom she lived for fifty-three years. Captain Laceys parents removed to a farm when he was seven years old, and he grew up a farmer boy, r
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