. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ncoln. Colonel Chipman also participated in the siege of York-town, battles of Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill, second BullRun, Antictam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettys-burg, and affair at Rappahannock- Station. Was bre-vetted major for gallant and meritorious services atChancellorsville, and lieutenant-colonel for same at Get-tysburg ; and was also made brevet brigadier-generalof volunteers for gallant and meritorious services duringthe war. Promoted major of the Third Inf. Oct. 1873,and lieutenant-colonel of the Seve
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ncoln. Colonel Chipman also participated in the siege of York-town, battles of Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill, second BullRun, Antictam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettys-burg, and affair at Rappahannock- Station. Was bre-vetted major for gallant and meritorious services atChancellorsville, and lieutenant-colonel for same at Get-tysburg ; and was also made brevet brigadier-generalof volunteers for gallant and meritorious services duringthe war. Promoted major of the Third Inf. Oct. 1873,and lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh Inf. May 19, 1881. When the Third Infantry, of which he was major,moved from Corinne, Utah, to Helena, Montana, itmarched five hundred miles in thirty days over theRocky Mountains, when the temperature at times wassixteen degrees below zero and the ground covered withsnow, which had to be scraped away to pitch tents. Colonel Chipman was retired from active service Feb-ruary 1, 1887, and now resides in San Antonio, Texas. 84 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (xegvla/d. CAPTAIN WM. H. CLAPP. Captain Wm. H. Clapp (Sixteenth Infantry) was bomin Ohio, September 7, 1S36, and at the breaking out ofthe war of the Rebellion entered the volunteer serviceas a private in Company A, of the Seventy-first NewYork Infantry, April 19, 1861, from which he was dis-charged July 30, 1861. Feeling still the ambition toserve his country after his first three months experiencein that regiment in the battle of the first Bull Run, heagain came into service September 25, 1861, as secondlieutenant of the Forty-second Ohio Infantry, and waspromoted first lieutenant March 14, [862. He was anaide-tie-camp of volunteers from December 19, 1S61, toApril 1, 1862, when he received the appointment ofadjutant of the Forty-second Ohio Infantry, and wasassistant adjutant-general of volunteers on the staff ofMajor-General Heron from May, 1862, to July, 1864, participating in the campaign in Eastern Kentucky, andengage
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