. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . signed to duty as chief ordnanceofficer on the Pacific coast, in which capacity he exploredthe whole coast region for depot ami arsenal the latter was chosen Benicia, where he immedi-ately commenced the erection of shops and other build-ings for its permanent occupation as the arsenal of thePacific. After five years of incessant toil, finding his pax-inadequate to his necessities, he resigned from the armyNovember 17, 1856. After this Lieutenant Stone was a banker in San Fran-cisco, 1856-57; chief of the scie
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . signed to duty as chief ordnanceofficer on the Pacific coast, in which capacity he exploredthe whole coast region for depot ami arsenal the latter was chosen Benicia, where he immedi-ately commenced the erection of shops and other build-ings for its permanent occupation as the arsenal of thePacific. After five years of incessant toil, finding his pax-inadequate to his necessities, he resigned from the armyNovember 17, 1856. After this Lieutenant Stone was a banker in San Fran-cisco, 1856-57; chief of the scientific commission in theservice of the Mexican government for the survey andexploration of the public lands in the state of Sonora,Mexico, 1857-60, and of Lower California, 1858-60;and acting United States consul at Guaymas, Mexico,1858-59. Lieutenant Stone was appointed a colonel on the stall of the inspector-general District of Columbia Volunteers, January 1, 1861, and served in organizing and disciplining District of Columbia Volunteers serving in the defence 42 329. of Washington, District of Columbia, to April 16, j SO 1 ;then in command of District of Columbia Volunteers toJuly 23, 1861, being engaged in guarding the Baltimoreand Ohio Railroad, and outposts of Washington, April,[861 ; in the capture of Alexandria, Virginia, May 24,1861. He was appointed a brigadier-general of volun-teers May 17, 1861, and was on the Rockville expedition ;skirmishes at Conrads and Edwards Ferry, Maryland;skirmishes at Harpers Perry; and in Major-GeneralPattersons operations in the Shenandoah Valley, and incommand of a special corps of observation on the Lp-per Potomac to February 9, 1862, when he was madeprisoner by the government at Port Hamilton and PortLafayette, where he was incarcerated from February(j to August 16, 1862, without charges being preferredagainst him, and finally released from arrest. After awaiting orders at Washington to May, 1863, hewas ordered to duty in the Departme
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