. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ia. At the conclusion of the war General Howard wasappointed commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees,Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, at Washington, ,May 12, 1865. He commanded the Department of the Columbia fromJul)-, 1S74, to 18S0, and was superintendent of the Mili-tary Academy from June 21, 18S1, to September 1, 1882,when he was ordered to the command of the Depart-ment of the Platte. He was appointed a major-generalin the U. S. Army March 19, 1886, and assigned to thecommand of the Military Division of the Pacific, f
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ia. At the conclusion of the war General Howard wasappointed commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees,Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, at Washington, ,May 12, 1865. He commanded the Department of the Columbia fromJul)-, 1S74, to 18S0, and was superintendent of the Mili-tary Academy from June 21, 18S1, to September 1, 1882,when he was ordered to the command of the Depart-ment of the Platte. He was appointed a major-generalin the U. S. Army March 19, 1886, and assigned to thecommand of the Military Division of the Pacific, fromwhich he was relieved, in 1S88, and assigned to theMilitary Division of the Atlantic. Divisions havingbeen discontinued, he now commands the Departmentof the East. General Howard had the degree of conferredby Bowdoin College, Maine, in 1853; the degree conferred by Waterville College, Maine, in1865; the same by Shurtleff College, Illinois, in 1865;and by Gettysburg Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania,in 1866. 206 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY NAVY regular). CAPTAIN HHNRY L. HOWE, Captain Henry L. Howe (Seventeenth Infantry) wasborn in Massachusetts January 2, 1851. Prior to enter- ing the volunteer service he was sergeant of CaptainGeorge C. Whitcombs Company of State Militia ofMinnesota, and participated in operations against LittleCrows band of hostile Sioux Indians from August 25 toI October 17, 1862, participating in three engagementswith said Indians. He entered the volunteer service during the war of theRebellion, and was private ami first sergeant of Com-pany B, Independent Battalion of Minnesota Cavalry,from July 1, 1863, to June 29, 1864, when he was ap-pointed second lieutenant of the same battalion, andpromoted first lieutenant July 6, [865. He was honorably mustered out of the volunteer ser-vice May 30, 1866, having been appointed second lieu-tenant in the Seventeenth U. S. Infantry I-ebruary 23,1866. He joined his regiment at Harts Island, New Yor
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