. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . as in command of the Military Division of Ten-nessee, embracing the Departments of Kentucky, Ten-nessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, with head-quarters at Nashville, from June 27, 1865, to Aug. 13,1866, and of the Dept. of Tennessee from Aug. 13, 1886,to March 11, 1867, with head-quarters at Nashville,Tenn., and Louisville, Kv., when he was assigned to theThird Military District (Georgia, Florida, and Alabama),from which he was relieved at his own request, and ofthe Department of the Cumberland, March 16, 1867. Th
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . as in command of the Military Division of Ten-nessee, embracing the Departments of Kentucky, Ten-nessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, with head-quarters at Nashville, from June 27, 1865, to Aug. 13,1866, and of the Dept. of Tennessee from Aug. 13, 1886,to March 11, 1867, with head-quarters at Nashville,Tenn., and Louisville, Kv., when he was assigned to theThird Military District (Georgia, Florida, and Alabama),from which he was relieved at his own request, and ofthe Department of the Cumberland, March 16, 1867. The Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States, in Congress assembled, resolved, March 3. 1865,— That the thanks of Congress are due and are herebytendered to Major-General George H. Thomas, and theofficers and soldiers under his command, for theirskill and dauntless courage, by which the rebel armyunder General Hood was signally defeated and drivenfrom the State of Tennessee. General Thomas died March 28, 1870. 34 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY {volunteer). MAJOR CHARLES A. APPEL, Major Charles A. AiTEL(Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry)has a Revolutionary ancestry. Ik-was born in Easton,Northampton County, Pennsylvania, May 12, 1836. Hereceived his academic education in the academy of Vandeveer, in Easton, and entered Lafayette Col-lege, Easton, Pennsylvania, in October, 1851, and grad-uated therefrom in July, [855, an honor man in the class. In 1861 he was editor and part owner of the LehighRegister, published in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He recruited part of Company A, Ninth RegimentPennsylvania Cavalry, in .Allentown, and was musteredinto the United States service as lieutenant in October,i86i,at Camp Cameron, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. InApril, 1862, he was made captain Company F,same regi-ment, and in 1S64 was mustered as major of the regiment,not being able to be mustered prior to that time, becausethe battalion to which he was assigned lacked the req
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