. Annual report of the State Historian of the State of New York. ave of absence, February 2-1 toJune 13, 1866. Served: As principal assistant professor of geography, historyand ethics, at the Military Academy, July 1, 1866, to August 31,1868 (lieutenant-colonel, Forty-fourth Infantry, July 28, 1866,);in command of regiment at Lincoln Barracks, D. C, to April 2,1869,and (unassigned, March 30, 1869,) of First Military District (Vir-ginia), with his brevet rank, April 2-20, 1869; and awaiting ordersto December 3, 1870. Honorably discharged, at his own request, December 3, 1870. Civil History.—Pre
. Annual report of the State Historian of the State of New York. ave of absence, February 2-1 toJune 13, 1866. Served: As principal assistant professor of geography, historyand ethics, at the Military Academy, July 1, 1866, to August 31,1868 (lieutenant-colonel, Forty-fourth Infantry, July 28, 1866,);in command of regiment at Lincoln Barracks, D. C, to April 2,1869,and (unassigned, March 30, 1869,) of First Military District (Vir-ginia), with his brevet rank, April 2-20, 1869; and awaiting ordersto December 3, 1870. Honorably discharged, at his own request, December 3, 1870. Civil History.—President of the College of the City of NewYork, since July 21, 1869. Degree of , conferred by HobartCollege, N. Y., 1870. He has published The Peninsula; McClellans Campaign of1862 (New York, 1882), and articles on the Civil War in theCentury Magazine. He received, through the War Department, a medal from TheCongress to Brevet Major-General Alexander S. Webb, UnitedStates Army, for distinguished personal gallantry in the battleof Gettysburg, July 3, Major General George Sears Greene, U. S. Volunteers. Major-General George Sears Greene. At the time of writing this sketch Gen. George S. Greene is theoldest surviving graduate of the West Point Academy, which heentered June 24, 1819, graduating July 1, 1823, and promoted tothe army as brevet second lieutenant, First Artillery. The sameday he was made second lieutenant, Third Artillery. Served: At the Military Academy as assistant professor ofmathematics, September 21, 1823, to June 16, 1824; at FortMonroe, Va., as assistant instructor, of mathematics in the Artil-lery School for Practice, June 16 to October 6, 1824; at the Mili-tary Academy, 1824-27, as assistant professor of mathematics,October 6, 1824, to August 29, 1826, and1 as principal assistantprofessor of engineering, August 29, 1826, to April 20, 1827; onordnance duty, April 20 to November, 1827; in garrison at FortWolcott, R. I., 1827-28 (first lieutenant, Thi
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