. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . 63, General Hookerwas on waiting-orders at Baltimore, Maryland, and wasthen assigned to command the Eleventh and TwelfthArmy Corps (consolidated afterwards into the TwentiethCorps), and participated in the operations of the Westernarmy, being engaged in all the actions army fromChattanooga to the siege of Atlanta, in July, [864. Hewas then placed on waiting-orders until the followingSeptember, when he was assigned to the command of theNorthern Department. He was brevetted major-generalU. S. Army, for gallant and
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . 63, General Hookerwas on waiting-orders at Baltimore, Maryland, and wasthen assigned to command the Eleventh and TwelfthArmy Corps (consolidated afterwards into the TwentiethCorps), and participated in the operations of the Westernarmy, being engaged in all the actions army fromChattanooga to the siege of Atlanta, in July, [864. Hewas then placed on waiting-orders until the followingSeptember, when he was assigned to the command of theNorthern Department. He was brevetted major-generalU. S. Army, for gallant and meritorious services at thebattle of Chattanooga, Tennessee. General Hooker was assigned to the command of theDepartment of the East Jul)- 8, 1865, and was then giventhe Department of the Lakes, where, alter being mus-tered out of the volunteer service September 1, 1866, heremained to 1867, and he was retired upon the lull rankof major-general , I Ictober 1;, [868. Hediedat Garden City, Long Island, ( (ctober 31, [8 346 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY {volunteer). BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM J. SEWELL. Brevet Major-General William J. Sewell was bornin Ireland in 1835. Losing both his parents at an earlyage, he came to this country and engaged in business inNew York, after which he made two round voyages toChina and Australia, and spent several years in Chicago. Returning to New Jersey at the breaking out of the CivilWar, he entered the service as captain of the Fifth NewJersey Infantry, and participated in almost all the battlesof the Army of the Potomac; was wounded at Chancel-lorsville, where, in command of the Second New JerseyBrigade, he captured nine stand of colors of the enemy,and was wounded severely at Gettysburg. He was pro-moted, grade by grade, and mustered out of service as abrevet major-general of volunteers, at the close of thewar, to which grade he was also named by a special actof the Legislature of his State in the National Guard ofNew Jersey; wa
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