. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . gt;f the James, and took part in what was done about Peters-burg and Bermuda Hundred, building Fort Pocahontasand rebuilding Fort Powhatan, and planning and conduct-ing the siege of Fort Harrison. In 1864 Gen. Serrell wasoffered promotion, but declined it, preferring to remain withhis own troops. At the battle of Drewrys Bluff he had theroads opened and way made read), by which the TenthCorps was enabled to support the Eighteenth in its is impossible, in this short sketch, to enumerate services. H
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . gt;f the James, and took part in what was done about Peters-burg and Bermuda Hundred, building Fort Pocahontasand rebuilding Fort Powhatan, and planning and conduct-ing the siege of Fort Harrison. In 1864 Gen. Serrell wasoffered promotion, but declined it, preferring to remain withhis own troops. At the battle of Drewrys Bluff he had theroads opened and way made read), by which the TenthCorps was enabled to support the Eighteenth in its is impossible, in this short sketch, to enumerate services. He was ordered on special scientificduty, and while engaged in it was, without his knowledge,mustered out of service. As he had no desire to continueli mger in it, and as it was near the close of the war, he ac-cepted the situation, and was brevetted brigadier-generalof volunteers. General Serrell is the author of a numberof useful and practical inventions, some of which are sovaluable as to be kept secret by the government. 198 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM W. BELKNAP, (deceased). Brevet Major-General William W. Belknap wasbom in New York State in 1829, and graduated fromPrinceton College in 1848. J [is father was a distinguishedofficer of the regular army, and served with honor in theearlier wars of the country. For personal gallantry hehad been brevetted brigadier-general at the battle ofBuena Vista, but died in Texas while in his countrysservice. General Belknap studied law at Washington City, andentered upon his profession at Keokuk, Iowa, as partnerof the Hon. Ralph P. Lowe, and was in successful prac-tice in that city at the commencement of the War of theRebellion. He was at the time captain of a company ofmilitia, and Governor Kirkwood commissioned him majorof the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry. The regiment was or-ganized at Keokuk February 22, [862, and left fir March [9 following. From there it was orderedto Pittsburg
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