. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . e Shenandoahcampaign and commanded Light Battery B, Fifth Artil-lery, but was captured October 19, 1S64, and prisoner ofwar in Libby Prison, Virginia, from October, 1864, toApril, 1S65, exchanged. At the termination of the warhe received the brevet of captain, to date from October19, 1864, for gallant and meritorious services in thebattle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, and was promotedcaptain September 18, 1868. He served from 1866 to 1873 at Fort Monroe, Vir-ginia ; Camp Williams, Richmond, Va. ; Fort Jefferson,Dry Tortugas, F
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . e Shenandoahcampaign and commanded Light Battery B, Fifth Artil-lery, but was captured October 19, 1S64, and prisoner ofwar in Libby Prison, Virginia, from October, 1864, toApril, 1S65, exchanged. At the termination of the warhe received the brevet of captain, to date from October19, 1864, for gallant and meritorious services in thebattle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, and was promotedcaptain September 18, 1868. He served from 1866 to 1873 at Fort Monroe, Vir-ginia ; Camp Williams, Richmond, Va. ; Fort Jefferson,Dry Tortugas, Fla.; Fort Preble, Maine ; and St. Al-bans, New York, during the Fenian raid, and was onspecial duty at Newport, Rhode Island, under the ordersof the major-general commanding the division, and wastransferred, in 1873, to the light battery of the regimentat Fort Adams, Rhode Island. His station was changedin February, 1875, to Charleston, South Carolina, and in1877 was detailed to proceed to Louisville, Kentucky, topurchase horses for light-artillery service. This kept. him until July, 187S, when he was ordered to Atlanta,Georgia. In July, 1881, Captain Brewerton was detailedas a member of the Light-Artillery Board at Washington,, which duty was completed in September of thesame year, when he rejoined his battery at McPhersonBarracks, Atlanta. On December 6, 1881, he was orderedto Fort Hamilton, New York, in command of Light Bat-tery F, from which he was relieved and transferred toBatten- C, at Fort Monroe, Virginia, as instructor at theArtillery School, December 19, 1882. He was trans-ferred at his own request from Battery C to Battery K,January 10, 1883, at Fort Schuyler, New York, andassumed command of the last-named battery eight dayslater. Upon the transfer of the Fifth Artillery to the Pacificcoast in 1889, Captain Brewerton was stationed at thePresidio of San Francisco, in command of Battery K,and was recorder of a Retiring Board at New York Cityin 1891. He was placed
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