. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . the learned professions, and among thecaptains were found such men as the venerable and patri-otic Rev. Dr. Joel Wakeman. The position of colonelwas filled by an able officer selected from the regulararmy, who became a brigadier-general. The vacancycaused by his promotion was filled by Lieutenant-ColonelThorp, who, for gallant and meritorious services on thefield of battle, won his star also. General Thorp wasmarried to the accomplished daughter of Colonel JohnMajor during the war. The ceremony was novel as itwas impress
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . the learned professions, and among thecaptains were found such men as the venerable and patri-otic Rev. Dr. Joel Wakeman. The position of colonelwas filled by an able officer selected from the regulararmy, who became a brigadier-general. The vacancycaused by his promotion was filled by Lieutenant-ColonelThorp, who, for gallant and meritorious services on thefield of battle, won his star also. General Thorp wasmarried to the accomplished daughter of Colonel JohnMajor during the war. The ceremony was novel as itwas impressive and beautiful. It took place in the hollowsquare of his regiment, and was performed by one of hiscaptains, the Rev. Dr. Wakeman. After the battle ofGettysburg the One Hundred and Thirtieth Regimentwas transferred to the cavalry corps by an order from theWar Department, and designated as the First New \ orkDragoons. General Thorp rendered honorable servicesunder every commander of the Army of the Potomac,from first to last, and was absent from the battle-field only. when disabled by wounds, or during a very short periodwhile a prisoner of war, after the battle of the Trevilian Station he was severely wounded, made aprisoner of war, and sent to Macon, Georgia. While aprisoner of war he delivered an oration on the Fourth offuly, which, doubtless, will never be forgotten for its fireand eloquence by the sixteen hundred officers who werealso prisoners of war. This outburst of patriotic senti-ment, uttered in the very heart of the Confederacy andin the very mouth of the cannon guarding the prisoners,was treated by the prison commander as insubordination,but it was characteristic of General Thorp, who, in thenight, jumped from the train going from Savannah toCharleston in his effort to rejoin his command in front ofRichmond. The sterling qualities which prompted thousands of theheroic defenders of our Union and constitutional libertyto stand four square to the brunt
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