. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . hat campaign on the staff of General Wesley Merritt,and was in the closing campaign from the 26th of Feb-ruary to the 9th of April, 1865, when General Lee .sur-rendered his arm_\-. He then served as chief commissaryon the staff of General Sheridan. In July, 1865, he resigned his commission and re-turned to his home in Brooklyn, New York. Shortlyafter he accepted the position of general manager of theBlack Heath Coal Company in Pennsylvania, and servedas such two years. He then returned to Brooklyn, NewYork, and went into
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . hat campaign on the staff of General Wesley Merritt,and was in the closing campaign from the 26th of Feb-ruary to the 9th of April, 1865, when General Lee .sur-rendered his arm_\-. He then served as chief commissaryon the staff of General Sheridan. In July, 1865, he resigned his commission and re-turned to his home in Brooklyn, New York. Shortlyafter he accepted the position of general manager of theBlack Heath Coal Company in Pennsylvania, and servedas such two years. He then returned to Brooklyn, NewYork, and went into the asphalt paving business. InJune, 1871, he went to Washington, , when the im-provements of the city commenced, and has continued inthe business of laying pavements ever since with muchsuccess. Major Cranford was married April 28, 1861, to Mar-garet I. Munn, of Montclair, New Jersey, granddaughterof Captain Joseph Munn, of the War of [812. Me hashad born five children, of whom two survive,—Joseph 11. Percy. 296 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NA VY (volunteer). MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN M. SCHOFIELD, Major-General John M. Schofield (commandingthe arms) was born in New York September 29, 1831,and graduated at the Military Academy July 1, was promoted brevet second lieutenant of artillerythe same day, and second lieutenant First 31, 1853. He served at Fort Moultrie in 1853,and in Florida in 1854—55, as acting assistant professorof philosophy, and assistant professor of the same atthe Military Academy from [856 to i860. He was onleave of absence as professor of physics, at WashingtonUniversity, St. Louis, Missouri, in 1860-61, and whenthe War of the Rebellion commenced was made muster-ing officer for the State of Missouri, from April 20 toMay 20, [861. He was major of the First Missouri In-fantry, April 26 ; captain, First United States Artillery,May 14; brigadier-general of volunteers, November 21 ;brigadier-general of Missouri State Militia, N
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