. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . lanta in [864. He was made prisoner of war September 20, 1863,and held by the enemy to March 7, 1864. After par-ticipating in the Atlanta campaign, he was placed incommand of the post of Chattanooga, Tennessee, fromOctober 17, 1864, to Ma) 13, [865, and was then com-manding the Western District of Kentucky to June 23,1865, when he was honorably mustered out of thevolunteer service. Colonel Carlton then joined his regiment in the regularservice, and commanded the Fourth Infantry at FortWood, New York, from July 2^ to Septem
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . lanta in [864. He was made prisoner of war September 20, 1863,and held by the enemy to March 7, 1864. After par-ticipating in the Atlanta campaign, he was placed incommand of the post of Chattanooga, Tennessee, fromOctober 17, 1864, to Ma) 13, [865, and was then com-manding the Western District of Kentucky to June 23,1865, when he was honorably mustered out of thevolunteer service. Colonel Carlton then joined his regiment in the regularservice, and commanded the Fourth Infantry at FortWood, New York, from July 2^ to September 28, 1865,when his regiment was ordered to the Lakes, and he tookstation at Fort Ontario, New York. He was brevetted major Jul)- 4, 1S62, for gallant andmeritorious services during the Peninsula campaign,and lieutenant-colonel September 20, 1863, for gallantand meritorious services at the battle of Chickamauga. In March, 1867,Colonel Carltons regiment was orderedto the Plains, and he served respectively in camp atOmaha, and in garrison at Forts Laramie and Fetter-. \ man until March 23, 1869, when he became unassigned. He was then detailed as professor of military scienceat Miami University, < )hio, and remained on that dutyto October, 1 87 1, he having in the mean time been assignedas captain of the Tenth Cavalry December 15, was on leave in Europe from November, 1S72, toJune, 1873. He joined at Fort Sill, and was in the fieldin the Kiowa ,md Comanche expeditions from June,1S73, to March, 1875, and then was ordered to Texas,taking station at Fort McKavett, from which post hetook the field, from April 17, 1875, to July 11, was promoted major of the Third Cavalry May 17,1876, and was in the field, and on the Cheyenne expe-dition in Dakota and Nebraska, from June to December21, 187S, again in the field from October 8 to December,1879, and again in June, 1880. He was on sick leavefrom |ulv S, 1SS0, to June, he was appointedinspector of national cem
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