. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . that carried the strong fortifications and long lineof intrenchments below Chapins Farm known as FortHarrison. During the assault he was severely January he was given the Army of the James andDepartment of Virginia. With this command he wasengaged in the various operations terminating in theevacuation of Richmond and surrender of General Lee. He was twenty years a general,—commanding, afterthe Rebellion, the Departments of Ohio, Arkansas, 4thMilitary District, Departments of California, Platte, andTexas. He wa
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . that carried the strong fortifications and long lineof intrenchments below Chapins Farm known as FortHarrison. During the assault he was severely January he was given the Army of the James andDepartment of Virginia. With this command he wasengaged in the various operations terminating in theevacuation of Richmond and surrender of General Lee. He was twenty years a general,—commanding, afterthe Rebellion, the Departments of Ohio, Arkansas, 4thMilitary District, Departments of California, Platte, andTexas. He was retired with the rank of major-general. On one occasion he saved a worthless member ofhis company from drowning, in San Francisco Bay, byjumping from the deck of the steamer into the bay afterhim. The War Department order that announced his deathclosed with these words : As his intimate associate sinceboyhood, the general (Sherman) here bears testimony ofhim, that a more unselfish, manly, and patriotic personnever lived. 28 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). MAJOR AND CHARLES LEONARDWILSON, Major and Surgeon Charles Leonard Wilsonsmilitary career began in the early months of the war ofthe Rebellion with his appointment as assistant surgeonof the Seventy-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer the merging of this command with the Seventy-fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in December, 1861, retained a similar post with the consolidated regi-ment, which he accompanied into action at McDowell,Shaws Ridge, Franklin, Strasburg, Harrisonburg, CrossKeys, Cedar Mountain, Freemans Ford, Warrenton Sul-phur Springs, Waterloo Bridge, Bull Run (second battle),and Aldie, and was also on duty on the battle-field atFredericksburg, though not with his regiment. In these engagements it was seldom the lot of theSeventy-fifth to occupy other than a position of gallant achievements of the regiment at McDowell,Bull Run, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg,
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