. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . , was engaged in guarding General Shermans com-munications and making raids, with constant heavyskirmishes with the enemy ; and in the march tothe sea, in actions at Lovejoy, Walnut Creek, SylvanGrove, Rocky Creek, Waynesborough, Salkehatchie,Monroes Cross-Roads, Raleigh, and Morristown, April13. 1865. Pie was promoted captain, First Artillery, November30, 1864, and was brevetted from major to major-generalin the regular army for gallant and meritorious services,and was appointed major-general of volunteers June iS,1865. H
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . , was engaged in guarding General Shermans com-munications and making raids, with constant heavyskirmishes with the enemy ; and in the march tothe sea, in actions at Lovejoy, Walnut Creek, SylvanGrove, Rocky Creek, Waynesborough, Salkehatchie,Monroes Cross-Roads, Raleigh, and Morristown, April13. 1865. Pie was promoted captain, First Artillery, November30, 1864, and was brevetted from major to major-generalin the regular army for gallant and meritorious services,and was appointed major-general of volunteers June iS,1865. He was in command of the Third Division of theCavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, fromApril 26 to June 13, 1865, and on leave of absence andawaiting orders until he resigned. He resigned his volunteer commission January 1, 1866,having been appointed United States Envoy Extraor-dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Chili in resigned his commission as captain, First U. S. Artil-lery, October 15, 1867. 112 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND XA W (regular). GENERAL RUFUS KING, (deceased). General Rufus King was burn January 26, 1S14,New York City. Mis father, Charles King, afterwardseditor of the New York American, and for many yearsPresident of Columbia College, was second son of RufusKing, who for twenty years represented New York Statein the LT. S. Senate, and was twice minister resident at theCourt of St. James. The first of the family to reachAmerica was Richard King, who came to Boston fromKent, England, in 1710. Rufus King, the subject of thissketch, was educated in New York, and thoroughly pre-pared for West Point, which he entered in 1829, whenless than sixteen, and was graduated in 1S33, standingfourth in a large class, and being assigned to the Engi-neer Corps. General Kings first duty was as associateto Lieutenant Robert E. Lee, in the construction ofFortress Monroe. A year later he was employed onthe survey of the boundary-line between Ohio andMic
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