. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . -. Major Ewing was thefirst commissioned officer in the Department of Texas tobe given a marksmans button. His nature was a remarkable combination of the poetand the soldier ; from childhood his highest aims were ina military line, but next to this he hoped to achieve famein the literary world. Shortly after his distinguished services at the NewOrleans encampment, he received an offer from the Presi-dent of Honduras to take command of the armies of thatrepublic. This offer, for various personal reasons, hereluctantly decli
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . -. Major Ewing was thefirst commissioned officer in the Department of Texas tobe given a marksmans button. His nature was a remarkable combination of the poetand the soldier ; from childhood his highest aims were ina military line, but next to this he hoped to achieve famein the literary world. Shortly after his distinguished services at the NewOrleans encampment, he received an offer from the Presi-dent of Honduras to take command of the armies of thatrepublic. This offer, for various personal reasons, hereluctantly declined to accept. He died June 7, 1892. 140 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND XAVY (regular). LIEUTENANT-COLONEL J. P. FARLEY. Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. Farley (Ordnance Corps,U. S. Army) was born in Washington, 1). C, March 2,1839. He was graduated at the U. S. Militar} AcademyJune 24, [861; assigned to the Second U. S. Artil-lery, and transferred to the < )rdnance Corps October 24,1861. I;, fore and during the Bull Run campaign he servedas aide on the staff of the general commanding the de-fences of Washington, and later, during the summer andfill of thai year, with Horse Battery A, Second Artillery,covei ing the appn iai lies t< 1 Washingti in and Alexandria,Virginia. Special Order No. 174, Folly Island, South Carolina,[uly 8, [863, was indorsed by Lieutenant-Colonel R. H.[ackson, captain First LJ. S. Artillery, as follows: Lieu-tenant Farley reported to me in obedience to the withinorder, and remained on duty in charge of one-half of thebattelies of the hunt line until the capture by our tr<iopsof the south end of Morris Island on July IO, 1863. I hike pleas
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