. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . e District of the Cumberlanduntil mustered out of the volunteer service, Sept. 1, 1866. General Stoneman was commissioned colonel of theTwenty-first United States Infantry July 28, 1866, andwas brevetted brigadier-general United States armyMarch 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services inthe capture of Charlotte. North Carolina, and major-general United States army, for gallant and meritoriousservices in the field during the Rebellion. He was incommand of the District of Petersburg, Virginia, fromDecember 17, 1866,
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . e District of the Cumberlanduntil mustered out of the volunteer service, Sept. 1, 1866. General Stoneman was commissioned colonel of theTwenty-first United States Infantry July 28, 1866, andwas brevetted brigadier-general United States armyMarch 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services inthe capture of Charlotte. North Carolina, and major-general United States army, for gallant and meritoriousservices in the field during the Rebellion. He was incommand of the District of Petersburg, Virginia, fromDecember 17, 1866, to June 1, [868; of the first .Mili-tary District to March 31, [869; of regiment to June 4,1S71 ; of Department of Arizona to June 4. [871. Hewas retired from active service August 16, 1871, for dis-ability contracted in the line of duty. General Stoneman was railroad commissioner of theState of California to November 15, 1882, and subse-quently governor of the State of California from January10, 1883, to January IO, 1887. 298 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL GEORGE S. GREENE, Brevet Major-General George S. Greene was bomat Apponaug, in the town of Warwick, Rhode Island,May 6, 1801. He was graduated at the United StatesMilitary Academy at West Point, New York, in June,1823. In the last year of his academic course he wasacting assistant professor of mathematics. He was ap-pointed second lieutenant of artillery on being graduated,and detailed for duty at the Military Academy for four yearsas assistant professor of mathematics and engineering,when he joined his regiment, the Third Artillery, and 1served in the garrisons in Virginia, Maine, Massachusetts,and Rhode Island, and on ordnance duty until [836,when he resigned from the army and entered uponthe practice of civil engineering, and in the locating andconstructing of railroads he was a great success. Hedesigned and built the reservoir in Central Park, NewYork, enlarged High Bridge, and bu
Size: 1347px × 1856px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidofficersofarmyna01powe
