. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . , April 23, 1864. While on sick-leave from April 29 to December 2,1S64, he was captured by rebel raiders in the Philadel-phia and Baltimore Railroad cars, July 11, 1864, butescaped during the next night; was president of boardfor retiring disabled officers, at Wilmington, to Novem-ber 10, 1865, when he was granted leave of absence toMarch 15, 1866, when he resigned from the army,having resigned his volunteer commission November 10,1865. March 13, 1865, he was brevetted major-generalU. S. Army for gallant and meritorious se
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . , April 23, 1864. While on sick-leave from April 29 to December 2,1S64, he was captured by rebel raiders in the Philadel-phia and Baltimore Railroad cars, July 11, 1864, butescaped during the next night; was president of boardfor retiring disabled officers, at Wilmington, to Novem-ber 10, 1865, when he was granted leave of absence toMarch 15, 1866, when he resigned from the army,having resigned his volunteer commission November 10,1865. March 13, 1865, he was brevetted major-generalU. S. Army for gallant and meritorious services in thefield during the Rebellion. Upon entering civil life, General Franklin became gen-eral agent of Colts Fire-Arms Mf. Co., at Hartford, Conn.,from November 15, 1865. He is the only citizen of theUnited States upon whom has been conferred the Frenchdecoration of Grand Officier de la Legion been President of the Board of Managers of theNational House for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers sinceApril 21, 1880. 158 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (regular). MAJOR HENRY BLANCHARD FREEMAN, Major Henry Blanchard Freeman (Sixteenth In-fantry) was born in Ohio January 17, 1837. At the com-mencement of the war of the Rebellion he entered theregular service as private in Company B, Second Battalion,Eighteenth Infantry, July 8, 1861 ; was promoted firstsergeant, and was discharged November 4. 1861, to acceptthe appointment of second lieutenant of the EighteenthInfantry to date from October 30, 1861. 1 le served in the Army of the Cumberland in 1862-63,and was engaged in siege of Corinth, Perryville, Ken-tucky, Hoovers Gap, Tennessee, Monroe Cross RoNorth Carolina, cavalry combat at Solemn Grove, North1 arolina, and the battles of Murfreesborough andChickamauga. He was made prisoner of war in Sep-tember, [863, and escaped from Libby prison, Rich-mond, through the famous tunnel, February 14, 1864,but was recaptured three days later on AppomattoxRiver, above City Point.
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