. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . pon his return home to Vermont, he was appointedchief of staff, with rank of colonel, by Governor JohnW. Stewart ; afterwards colonel of the first and only regi-ment of infantry of the National Guard of the -which position he held for eight years. In 1869, assistantadjutant-general of the G. A. R., Departmenl of Ver-mont; in 1872, senior vice-commander; and in 18;department commander. In [881 he was appointed ad-jutant-general, with rank of brigadier-general, and is onduty in tins office at the present time, lie is a cha
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . pon his return home to Vermont, he was appointedchief of staff, with rank of colonel, by Governor JohnW. Stewart ; afterwards colonel of the first and only regi-ment of infantry of the National Guard of the -which position he held for eight years. In 1869, assistantadjutant-general of the G. A. R., Departmenl of Ver-mont; in 1872, senior vice-commander; and in 18;department commander. In [881 he was appointed ad-jutant-general, with rank of brigadier-general, and is onduty in tins office at the present time, lie is a chartermember of the Vermont Commandery, Military Ordthe Loyal Legion, and is ,1 via president-general of theNational Society, Sons of American Revolution. He hadfour ancestors ,n the Revolutionary War and 1Warofi8i2. Gen. Peck was appointed by President Harri-s. at .1 member of the Board of Visitors at tin U. S. MilitaryAcademy in 1891. Is a resident of Burlington, ChittendenCounty, Vt, following the business of general insurance. OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY hvlunteer). BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL JOSEPH D1GKINS0N, Brevet Brigadier-General Joseph Dickinson wasburn in Philadelphia December 25, 1830, being descendedfrom a Pennsylvania ancestry distinguished fen- heroicpatriotism in the old colonial days. His maternal grand-lather and four grand uncles fought in the RevolutionaryWar under Washington. His father was in the War of[8l2, and himself and nine others of the family enteredthe lists of the Union army during the Rebellion. General Dickinson, early in i86l,blew the bugle-noteswhich assembled the Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania Infantry,which started for Washington wholly unequipped andunarmed, and accompanied the Sixth Massachusetts Reg-iment in its memorable passage through Baltimore. Theregiment was afterwards reorganized as the first of thethree years volunteers. General Dickinson was mustered into the United Statesservice as first lieutenant and adjutant Twenty-sixthPenns
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