. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . Knoxvillc on two March 13, 1865, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonelof volunteers for faithful and meritorious services duringthe war, and on April 16, 1866, received the appointmentof major and paymaster U. S. Army, and was ordered inJuly of same year to New Mexico, with station at SantaFe, and to take five hundred thousand dollars with himto pay off California and New Mexican volunteers, whichhe did, making the journey from Fort Leavenworth toSanta Fe in wagons, with an escort of about twenty sol-diers, thro
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . Knoxvillc on two March 13, 1865, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonelof volunteers for faithful and meritorious services duringthe war, and on April 16, 1866, received the appointmentof major and paymaster U. S. Army, and was ordered inJuly of same year to New Mexico, with station at SantaFe, and to take five hundred thousand dollars with himto pay off California and New Mexican volunteers, whichhe did, making the journey from Fort Leavenworth toSanta Fe in wagons, with an escort of about twenty sol-diers, through a country infested with hostile arrived there September 23. His duties in thatcountry required him to make long and fatiguing jour-neys as far south as Fort Quitman, Texas, and west tonear the Arizona line, in a country then full of blood-thirsty Indians. Colonel Rucker was ordered to changestations and report at Washington in May, 1868, and, inJuly of that year, was changed to St. Louis, Missouri,where he served until March, 1S73, and was then ordered. to Portland, Oregon. During his service there he visitedAlaska five times, paying troops stationed there. InJune, 1876, he was ordered to San Francisco, California,and on leaving Portland, Oregon, received from Major-General O. O. Howard an order from which this extractis taken : It is no passing formal compliment to express,as the department commander now does, his sincere regretat losing the services of Major Rucker, who has not onlygiven him entire satisfaction in the faithful performanceof his laborious and responsible duty as paymaster, buthas clone it in a manner to give eminent satisfaction tothis command. He remained in the Department of Cali-fornia, stationed at San Francisco, making payments totroops stationed from Camp Gaston to San Diego and theinterior posts until April, 1878, when he was ordered toFort Leavenworth, Kansas, and was assigned the pay-ment of several posts in Western Kansas, Colorado, In
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