. The Union army; a history of military affairs in the loyal states, 1861-65 -- records of the regiments in the Union army -- cyclopedia of battles -- memoirs of commanders and soldiers . March 17, 1863,was promoted May 29, 1863, and was mustered out of the service, , 1866. He was made major of the 3d U. S. artillery, July 26, 1866;lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 25, 1879, and colonel of the 4th U. S. artillery,June 30, 1882. He was superintendent of practical instruction and tacticalrecitations at West Point from 1871 till 1874. Gen. De Russy was re-tired by operation of law, Nov. 3, 1882, and
. The Union army; a history of military affairs in the loyal states, 1861-65 -- records of the regiments in the Union army -- cyclopedia of battles -- memoirs of commanders and soldiers . March 17, 1863,was promoted May 29, 1863, and was mustered out of the service, , 1866. He was made major of the 3d U. S. artillery, July 26, 1866;lieutenant-colonel, Aug. 25, 1879, and colonel of the 4th U. S. artillery,June 30, 1882. He was superintendent of practical instruction and tacticalrecitations at West Point from 1871 till 1874. Gen. De Russy was re-tired by operation of law, Nov. 3, 1882, and died in Detroit, Mich., May29, 1891. De Trobriand, Philip R., brigadier-general, was born in the Chateaudes Rochetts, near Tours, France, June 4, 1816. He became a page atthe court of Charles X, then king of France, but the revolution of 1830changed the plans formed for his military education and he was gradu-ated at the University of Orleans as bachelier-cs-lettrcs in 1834 and atPontiers as licencie-en-droit in 1838. Coming to the United States in1841, he married the daughter of a New York merchant, and publishedin New York, in 1849-50, the Revtie de Nouveau Monde, and was joint. I^ysander H. E. G. W. , F. T. Dent N. J. T. T. A. Richard Dela- T. W. Denver »en. E. W. DavidsonJ. Davis E. S. G. .\. De Rrssv Biographical Sketches 73 editor of the Courier dcs Etats-Unis in 1854-61. On Aug. 28, 1861,he entered the service of the United States as colonel of the 55th N. He was engaged at Yorktown and Williamsburg, commandeda brigade of the 3d army corps in 1862-63 and took part in the engagementsat Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, where, on the secondday, he held the peach orchard, the central point of Gen. Sickles was then mustered out of the service, but in Jan., 1864, was com-mi
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