. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . uly 4, 1864, for gallant andmeritorious services in the Atlanta campaign ; and lieu-tenant-colonel March 13, 1865, for gallant and merito-rious services in the battles before Nashville, Tennessee. At the close of the war, Colonel Barlow was detailedas superintending engineer of the construction of FortClinch, Florida, from October 20, 1865, to November19, 1867. He was at this time transferred to the sameduty at Burlington, Vt, as Superintending Engineer ofFort Montgomery, New York, and harbor improvementson Lake Champlain
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . uly 4, 1864, for gallant andmeritorious services in the Atlanta campaign ; and lieu-tenant-colonel March 13, 1865, for gallant and merito-rious services in the battles before Nashville, Tennessee. At the close of the war, Colonel Barlow was detailedas superintending engineer of the construction of FortClinch, Florida, from October 20, 1865, to November19, 1867. He was at this time transferred to the sameduty at Burlington, Vt, as Superintending Engineer ofFort Montgomery, New York, and harbor improvementson Lake Champlain to May 30, 1870. He was pro-moted major of Engineers April 23, 1869, and lieutenant-colonel March 19, 1884. His duties as an officer of Engineers have required hisservices at Chicago, New London, Milwaukee, Chatta-nooga, Nashville, and other stations from 1S70 to thepresent time, he being now employed as Commissionerand Engineer-in-Chief upon the relocation of the Inter-national Boundary between the United States and Mexico. 26 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (regular). CAPTAIN AND BREVET COLONEL ALBERT BARNITZ. Captain axd Brevet Colonel Albert Barnitz (re-tired) was born at Everett, Bedford County, Pennsyl-vania, March 10, 1835. At the breaking out of the warof the Rebellion he was pursuing the study of law, inthe office of an eminent jurist, at Minneapolis, Minne-sota, whither he had gone from Cleveland, Ohio, aftersome preparatory study at Kenyon College, and in alocal law-school. But the importunate beating of war-drums, and the startling cry, to arms ! caused him torelinquish his cherished opportunities and to hasten back-to Cleveland, where, waiving all claims to immediate pre-ferment, he at once enlisted as a private soldier in theSecond Ohio Cavalry, then organizing on UniversityHeights,—but was later enrolled as a sergeant. The regiment with which he was now associatedhad a remarkable and altogether exceptional career. Itserved in five different armies, under twenty-f
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