. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ton to October of that joined his regiment in the Army of the West, partici-pating in the Tennessee and Mississippi campaigns andthe actions connected therewith from February until June,1S62. He then served with the army under General Buell,through Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky,from June to September, 1862, being engaged in the skir-mish near Chaplin Hills, and in the battle of Perryville,October 8, 1S62. He also participated in the actionsunder General Rosecrans, in his Tennessee campaign, fromNove
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ton to October of that joined his regiment in the Army of the West, partici-pating in the Tennessee and Mississippi campaigns andthe actions connected therewith from February until June,1S62. He then served with the army under General Buell,through Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky,from June to September, 1862, being engaged in the skir-mish near Chaplin Hills, and in the battle of Perryville,October 8, 1S62. He also participated in the actionsunder General Rosecrans, in his Tennessee campaign, fromNovember, 1S62, to April, 1863, ami was engaged in thebattle of Stone River, where he was wounded. Captain Douglass was then detailed on the recruitingservice from April to September, 1863, and on musteringand disbursing duty at Cleveland, Ohio, from December,1863, to January, 1864, and was in charge of chief mus-tering and disbursing office of the State of Ohio fromSeptember, 1864, to June, 1866. He had the brevet ofmajor conferred upon him December 31,1862, for gallant. and meritorious services in the battle of Murfreesborough,Tennessee. He was promoted major of the Third Infantry July 28,1866, upon the reorganization of the army, and served onfrontier stations. Upon the consolidation of regiments,in 1869, he was unassigned, March 15, but placed on dutyas superintendent of Indian affairs for the State of Nevada,which position he occupied until January 1, 1871, whenhe was assigned to the Eleventh Infantry. He was pro-moted lieutenant-colonel of the Fourteenth Infantry Jan-uary 10, iS76,and served with his regiment at Fort Cam-eron, Utah, cantonment on the LTncompahgre, Colorado,and Fort Townsend, Washington, until promoted colonelof the Tenth Infantry July 1, 1885, when he joined hisregiment in New Mexico, and served at Fort LTnion, FortBliss, Texas, and Santa Fe until retired, by operation oflaw, March 9, 188 I. Colonel Douglass is at the present time making hishome at Barnegat P
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