. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . fantry, and subse-quently his command was increased to a brigade. Hishead-quarters was at Williamsport, Man-land. WhenGeneral Patterson crossed the Potomac River into Vir-ginia, to meet the Confederates under General Joseph , Colonel Lamon accompanied the movementas a volunteer aide-de-camp on General Cadwaladersstaff After Cadwaladers command had taken possession ofMartinsburg, Lamon returned to Williamsport, and re-mained there until called back to Washington on accountof his duties as marshal. After the assa
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . fantry, and subse-quently his command was increased to a brigade. Hishead-quarters was at Williamsport, Man-land. WhenGeneral Patterson crossed the Potomac River into Vir-ginia, to meet the Confederates under General Joseph , Colonel Lamon accompanied the movementas a volunteer aide-de-camp on General Cadwaladersstaff After Cadwaladers command had taken possession ofMartinsburg, Lamon returned to Williamsport, and re-mained there until called back to Washington on accountof his duties as marshal. After the assassination of President Lincoln, ColonelLamon resigned the office of marshal for the District ofColumbia, and resumed the practice of law in companywith Hon. Jeremiah S. Black and his son, GovernorChauncey F. Black. Colonel Lamon gave up business some years areason of impaired health. In 1872 he published his life of Abraham Lincoln, andwill publish three more volumes shortly of his reminis-cences of Mr. Lincoln and the war. 2/8 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY {volunteer). BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL DANIEL BUTTEREIELD, Brevet Major-General Daniel Butterfield wasborn in Utica, New York, October 31, 1 S3 1 ; was grad-uated at Union in 1849, an^ became a merchant in NewYork City, lie was colonel of the Twelfth New YorkMilitia when the Civil War began. Accompanying hisregiment to Washington in July, 1861, he led the advanceinto Virginia over the Long Bridge, joined General Pat-terson on the Upper Potomac, and commanded a bri-gade. ()n the enlargement of the regular army he was commis-sioned a lieutenant-colonel, and assigned to the TwelfthInfantry May 14, 1861 ; appointed brigadier-general ofvolunteers September 7, 1861, and ordered to the corpsof Fitz-John Porter, in which he made the campaign of the Peninsula, taking a conspicuous part in the actions atHanover Court-House, Mechanicsville, and Gainess Mills,where he was wounded, and in the battles fought duringthe retreat of McClella
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