. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . nted lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, July 28, 1866, but transferred to the Eigh-teenth Infantry, March 15, [S69. He served, after tinwar, with a board of officers at West Point, New York,in examining his System of Infantry Tactics, from June25, 1866, to February 4, 1807, which were adopted forthe army. Sept. 1867, assigned to the command ofPaducah, Kentucky, until November 12, 1867. He wasthen in garrison at Memphis, Tennessee, and Atlanta,Georgia, to May 30, 1870, when he was assigned toduty at the Milita
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . nted lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, July 28, 1866, but transferred to the Eigh-teenth Infantry, March 15, [S69. He served, after tinwar, with a board of officers at West Point, New York,in examining his System of Infantry Tactics, from June25, 1866, to February 4, 1807, which were adopted forthe army. Sept. 1867, assigned to the command ofPaducah, Kentucky, until November 12, 1867. He wasthen in garrison at Memphis, Tennessee, and Atlanta,Georgia, to May 30, 1870, when he was assigned toduty at the Military .Academy as commandant of cadets,which position he retained until June 30, 1875. Wasassigned to the First Artillery, December 15, 1876, andtransferred to the Fourth Artillery, March 20, 1877. He-was on professional duty in Europe and Asia from July,[875, to March, 1877. Was at Fort Monroe and Pre-sidio of San Francisco, California, from April, 1877, toMarch, 1881, when he died at the last-named post, agedforty-two years. 438 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AXD XAVY (regular). COLONEL JAMES J. VAN HORN, Colonel James J. Van Horn (Eighth Infantry) wasborn at Mount Gilead, Ohio, February 6, 1835. He wasgraduated at the U. S. Military Academy in the Class of1858, and promoted brevet second lieutenant, First In-fantry, the same day. He served in garrison at Fort Columbus, New York,[858-59; and was promoted second lieutenant. EighthInfantry, July 19, 1858. He was then on frontier duty atFort Davis, Texas, in 1859-61 ; and also at San Antonio,where he was made prisoner-of-war, May 8, 1861, andnot exchanged until April 4, 1S62. He was promotedfirst lieutenant, Eighth Infantry, May 14, 1861, and servedduring the Rebellion of the seceding States, [ was promoted captain, Eighth Infantry, February 19,[862, and served as aide-de-camp to the provost-marshal-general of the Army of the Potomac, from June 6, [862,to July 4, 1863. He participated in the Virginia Penin- sula and Maryland
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