. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . captaincy of the battery Septem-ber 9, 1S63, and served with it at Munfordville in thefall and winter of 1863. He also served with GeneralSherman in his East Tennessee campaign, returning tohis command at Knoxville, Tennessee, from the northin December, 1864. On arriving at Nashville, he foundthe enemy in possession of the road and country gener-ally between Nashville and Murfreesborough, and, beingindefinitely detained and cut off from his command, hereported, by order of General George H. Thomas, toGeneral Steadman for d
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . captaincy of the battery Septem-ber 9, 1S63, and served with it at Munfordville in thefall and winter of 1863. He also served with GeneralSherman in his East Tennessee campaign, returning tohis command at Knoxville, Tennessee, from the northin December, 1864. On arriving at Nashville, he foundthe enemy in possession of the road and country gener-ally between Nashville and Murfreesborough, and, beingindefinitely detained and cut off from his command, hereported, by order of General George H. Thomas, toGeneral Steadman for duty, and acted under his ordersduring the battle of Nashville. He was then stationed atAthens, Tennessee, where, by order of General Thomas,he fired one hundred guns in honor of the fall of Rich-mond. He commanded Forts Willich and Terrill, at thecrossing of Green River, at Munfordville, Kentucky,and commanded a battalion of the Second Ohio HeavyArtillery in 1864-65. Captain Crowell was mustered out of the volunteerservice on the 21st of August, 1865, but entered the. regular service as second lieutenant of the SeventeenthInfantry January 22, 1867. He was promoted first lieu-tenant December 17, 1867, serving with his regimentuntil May 27, 1869, when he was placed on the unas-signed list of officers. While unassigned Captain Cro-well was engaged in reconstruction duty under GeneralCanby in Virginia, and General Ames in Mississippi;in the former State he was made military commissionerand superintendent of elections for five counties, and inMississippi for two; his duties were to appoint and in-struct boards of registration in the counties under hiscontrol and recommend for appointment all county offi-cers, and to conduct and report the result of the electionas directed in orders. He was assigned to the Sixth Infantry December 15,1870, and promoted to captain October 31, 1883. Heserved with his regiment on frontier duty in the Depart-ments of the Platte and the Missouri to April,
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