. The Union army; a history of military affairs in the loyal states, 1861-65 -- records of the regiments in the Union army -- cyclopedia of battles -- memoirs of commanders and soldiers . in ac-tion. After the war he engaged in business in Richmond, Va., andPittsfield, Mass., and died in Pittsfield in 1876. Baxter, Henry, brigadier-general, was born in Sidney Plains,Delaware county, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1821. He received an academiceducation and in 1849 went to California as captain of a companyof thirty men. Early in 1861 he volunteered as a private, raiseda company, and was elected its captain, t
. The Union army; a history of military affairs in the loyal states, 1861-65 -- records of the regiments in the Union army -- cyclopedia of battles -- memoirs of commanders and soldiers . in ac-tion. After the war he engaged in business in Richmond, Va., andPittsfield, Mass., and died in Pittsfield in 1876. Baxter, Henry, brigadier-general, was born in Sidney Plains,Delaware county, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1821. He received an academiceducation and in 1849 went to California as captain of a companyof thirty men. Early in 1861 he volunteered as a private, raiseda company, and was elected its captain, the company afterwardsbeing mustered into the 7th volunteers. On May 22, 1862,he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and, while in command ofhis regiment, at Fredericksburg, led an attack upon a company ofConfederate sharpshooters across the river. The sharpshooterswere dislodged, but Col. Baxter was shot through the lung. InMarch, 1863, he was promoted to brigadier-general, and participat-ed in most of the battles of the Army of the Potomac. He distin-guished himself at Antietam and in the Wilderness, in both ofwhich contests he was wounded, besides having two horses killed. W. F. Henry John H. W. Benham T. T. BarTlETT , \V. F. G. D. Bayard G. L. Beal Samuel Beatty W. W. Belknap W. P. BenTon H. G. Berry Biographical Sketches 29 under him at the Wilderness. For gallantry at the Wilderness,Dabneys mill and Five Porks, he was made brevet major-generalof volunteers, April i. 1865. After the war, from 1866 to 1869, hewas United States minister to Honduras. He died in Jonesville,Hillsdale county, Mich., Dec. 30, 1873. Bayard, George Dashiell, brigadier-general, was born in SenecaFalls, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1835. Moving with his parents to Iowa inearly youth, he attended a military school taught by a Maj. Dorn,and learned fenci
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