. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ne and fix the cavalry accoutrements, equipments,and supplies at Fort Leavenworth in 1874; and memberof a board of officers to determine and fix on cavalryaccoutrements, equipments, and supplies at Washingtonin fuly, 18S2. 1 le also occupied important staff positionsduring and since the war. Colonel Henry is a son of Major William SeatonHenry, Third U. S. Infantry, and grandson of DanielD. Tompkins, who was twice Governor of New Yorkand Vice-President of the United States; also of SmithThompson, who was Secretary of the Na
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ne and fix the cavalry accoutrements, equipments,and supplies at Fort Leavenworth in 1874; and memberof a board of officers to determine and fix on cavalryaccoutrements, equipments, and supplies at Washingtonin fuly, 18S2. 1 le also occupied important staff positionsduring and since the war. Colonel Henry is a son of Major William SeatonHenry, Third U. S. Infantry, and grandson of DanielD. Tompkins, who was twice Governor of New Yorkand Vice-President of the United States; also of SmithThompson, who was Secretary of the Navy and Judgeof the Supreme Court. Colonel Henry has furnished the profession with thefollowing military works: Records of Civilian Appoint-ments Army, Army Catechism for Non-Commis-sioned Officers and Soldiers, pamphlet on TargetPractice, and Practical Information for Non-Commis-sioned Officers on Field Duty. He was promoted lieu-tenant-colonel Seventh Cavalry January 30, 1892, andis in command at Fort Myer, Virginia. 196 OFFICERS OF THE ARJfV AXD NA1T [regular). MAJOR JAMES HENTON, Major James Henton (Twenty-third Infantry) wasborn in Liverpool, England, February 2, [835. Heenlisted in the Sixth U. S. Infantry November 22, [853,and served at Jefferson Barracks and Fort Riley, Kansas,until August, 1S54, when he marched with his companyto Fort Laramie, then in Nebraska Territory reachingthat post in the subsequent ( >ctober, where he remaineduntil June 2j, 1857. During this period he took part inseveral expeditions, under General Harney, against theSioux and Cheyenne Indians, lie participated in theexpedition against the Cheyennes, under Colonel E. , and was engaged in the action at SolomonsFork July 29, 1857. On the breaking up of this expe-dition he accompanied several companies of his regimentto Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and did duty in that \ icinityas posse comitates during the political disturbances of thatperiod, until April, [858, when he left that
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