. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ed a battalion inthe repulse of an Indian attack. In 1S77 Major Burt,with his company, was part of General John Kings com-mand, sent to Chicago during the riots. In 1X79 hiscompany was especially selected to proceed to Hastings,Nebraska, to protect Judge Gaslin in holding court againstthe possible interference 4 OFFICERS OF THE ARM) AND NAVY {regular). PAY INSPECTOR ARTHUR BURTIS. Pay Inspector Arthur Burtis, , was born inNew York, and appointed assistant paymaster from thatState by Mr. Lincoln in 1862, in acc
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ed a battalion inthe repulse of an Indian attack. In 1S77 Major Burt,with his company, was part of General John Kings com-mand, sent to Chicago during the riots. In 1X79 hiscompany was especially selected to proceed to Hastings,Nebraska, to protect Judge Gaslin in holding court againstthe possible interference 4 OFFICERS OF THE ARM) AND NAVY {regular). PAY INSPECTOR ARTHUR BURTIS. Pay Inspector Arthur Burtis, , was born inNew York, and appointed assistant paymaster from thatState by Mr. Lincoln in 1862, in accordance with therequest of the Honorable Hamilton Fish and SenatorPreston King. These gentlemen had been classmates ofAssistant Paymaster Burtiss father,—a clergyman whowas for man_\- years a resilient of Buffalo. His great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather both served inthe Revolutionary War; the older being at the timesixty-four, and his sun twenty-two years of age. His first orders were to duty under Admiral Farragutin the Sagamore, but on the way there inthe supplysteamer Rhode Island contracted yellow fever, andhe was sent north. lie was then, upon recovering hishealth, ordered to the Connecticut, employed in con-voying the California steamers through the CarribeanSea, rendered necessary by the fact that the Alabamahad recently overhauled the Ariel, with mails and pas-sengers. The Connecticut, of the N
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