. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . rfaithful and distinguished services in the quartermastersdepartment during the war. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel, staff, deputyquartermaster-general, July 29, 1866, and mustered outof the volunteer service September 1, 1866. He servedas depot quartermaster at Baltimore from April 18,1867, to May 13, 1869; was in charge of SchuylkillArsenal, Pennsylvania, and chief quartermaster of theDivision of the Atlantic to June 1, 1872, and then onleave of absence to October 28. 1S72. General Van Vliet was promoted colonel, sta
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . rfaithful and distinguished services in the quartermastersdepartment during the war. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel, staff, deputyquartermaster-general, July 29, 1866, and mustered outof the volunteer service September 1, 1866. He servedas depot quartermaster at Baltimore from April 18,1867, to May 13, 1869; was in charge of SchuylkillArsenal, Pennsylvania, and chief quartermaster of theDivision of the Atlantic to June 1, 1872, and then onleave of absence to October 28. 1S72. General Van Vliet was promoted colonel, staff-assistantquartermaster-general, June 6, 1872, and was chief quar-termaster of the Division of the Missouri from October28, 1872, to July 13, 1875, and of the Philadelphia depotof quartermasters stores to November 8, 1875. He wasthen detailed as inspector of the Quartermasters Depart-ment, with head-quarters at Washington City, to January22, 1881, when he was retired from active service, being-oxer sixty-two years of age. 440 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (regular). CAPTAIN S. C. , (retired). Captain S. C. Vedder was bom in New York, and appointed from New York as first lieutenant, SixteenthNew York Volunteer Infantry, April, 1861. He servedin the field with the Army of the Potomac, and was en-gaged at the first battle of Bull Run, Virginia. He com-manded company, and was engaged at the action ofWest Point, Virginia, battles of Mechanicsville, GainesMill, Goldens Farm, and Charles City Cross-Roads. I [ewas adjutant of his regiment, and engaged at the secondbattle of Bull Run, Virginia, ami was honorably dis-charged (resigned), September 13, 1862, on account ofsickness. He was then connected with the Subsistence De-partment, U. S. Army, Department of Washington,D. C, part of 1863-64. He commanded a company ofone hundred clerks in Subsistence Department at Alex- andria, Virginia, during part of 1863-64, the companydoing duty in the defences of Washington, D. C, an
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