. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . mmand of the military departmentof the committee. In July, 1856, he returned to NewYork, having closed up his business relations and joinedhis wife, she having preceded him the year previous. At the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion he joinedColonel Baker and Roderick Mattheson. Baker havingan order from President Lincoln to create and equip aCalifornia regiment, dissensions soon arose, and RoderickMattheson, of California, proposed to withdraw fromBaker and toss up with Pinto for the command ; Matthe-son won. The reg
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . mmand of the military departmentof the committee. In July, 1856, he returned to NewYork, having closed up his business relations and joinedhis wife, she having preceded him the year previous. At the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion he joinedColonel Baker and Roderick Mattheson. Baker havingan order from President Lincoln to create and equip aCalifornia regiment, dissensions soon arose, and RoderickMattheson, of California, proposed to withdraw fromBaker and toss up with Pinto for the command ; Matthe-son won. The regiment was organized as the Thirty-second Regiment, New York. It was mustered into theUnited States service in May, 1861, and went to Wash-ington in June. It was engaged in the first battle ofBull Run, and was the last troops to retire from that field,not leaving Centreville Heights till near midnight, andwent into camp at Fairfax Court-House and remained tillthe morning of the next day, when it hauled a four-horseambulance, which had been abandoned, from Centreville no. to Alexandria. General franklin said the ambulanceshould always belong to the regiment. At West Point, Virginia, the regiment was severelyengaged by the retreating enemy from Yorktown, Vir-ginia. The regiment was engaged at Gainess Mills,White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, and the second BullRun. While at Harrisons Landing, on the James River,Pinto was ordered to take command of the Thirty-firstNew York. He commanded that regiment at the storm-ing of Cramptons Pass, South Mountain, Mattheson having been killed at CramptonsPass, Colonel Pinto was ordered back to his own regi-ment, the Thirty-second New York, and commissionedcolonel. He took his regiment into action at Antietamon the 17th of September, 1862. While in front thatday he received a flag of truce from the enemy (signedby Colonel Colquitt) requesting the body of a Georgiacolonel. He found the body, and, by General Franklinspermission, passed
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