. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . hmond and in the Maryland campaign,and bore a conspicuous part at Antietam. He succeededGeneral Hooker in the command of the division, and wasengaged at Fredericksburg. < hi the reorganization ofthe Army of the Potomac, he was assigned to the com-mand of the Third Army Corps, and was appointedmajor-general on March 7, 1863, his commission datingfrom November 29, 1862. At Chancellorsville he dis-played gallantry and energy, gaining the first success ofthe day by cutting off an ammunition train of the enemy,arresting a
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . hmond and in the Maryland campaign,and bore a conspicuous part at Antietam. He succeededGeneral Hooker in the command of the division, and wasengaged at Fredericksburg. < hi the reorganization ofthe Army of the Potomac, he was assigned to the com-mand of the Third Army Corps, and was appointedmajor-general on March 7, 1863, his commission datingfrom November 29, 1862. At Chancellorsville he dis-played gallantry and energy, gaining the first success ofthe day by cutting off an ammunition train of the enemy,arresting a general panic by rallying the retreating artil-lery, and withstanding the force of Stonewall Jacksonsattack with determination after the line was formed. At Gettysburg his corps was posted between CemeteryHill and Little Round-Top. He advanced to an eleva-tion which he thought desirable to hold, and in this po-sition was assailed by General James Longstreets column,while General John B. Hood endeavored to gain the un-occupied slope of Little Round-Top. In the desperate. struggle that followed, the Third Corps effectively aidedin preserving that important position from the enemy, butwas scattered by the onset of overwhelming the line was broken, General Ambrose P. Hillfollowed the Confederate advantage with an attack onSickless right, during which General Sickles lost a continued in active service till the beginning of [865,and was then sent on a confidential mission to Colombiaand other South American countries. On July 28, 1866,he joined the regular army as colonel of the Forty-second Infantry. On March 2, 1867, he was brevettedbrigadier-general for bravery at Fredericksburg, andmajor-general for gallant and meritorious service atGettysburg. He commanded the Military District ofthe Carolinas in 1865-67, and carried out the work ofreconstruction so energetically that President Johnsonrelieved him from his command alter first offering him themission to the N
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