. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . attleof Olustee, Florida (where he was severely wounded).He was also honorably mentioned in the Records ofthe Rebellion, in the report of the chief of artillery,Second Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, on the battleof Gettysburg, as follows: Honorable mention should be made- of . . SecondLieutenant Tully McCrea . . for their distinguishedcoolness and braver)-. Lieutenant McCrea was quartermaster of the firstArtillery from June 20 to November 20, 1866, at FortHamilton, New York. He was appointed captain of theForty-second In
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . attleof Olustee, Florida (where he was severely wounded).He was also honorably mentioned in the Records ofthe Rebellion, in the report of the chief of artillery,Second Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, on the battleof Gettysburg, as follows: Honorable mention should be made- of . . SecondLieutenant Tully McCrea . . for their distinguishedcoolness and braver)-. Lieutenant McCrea was quartermaster of the firstArtillery from June 20 to November 20, 1866, at FortHamilton, New York. He was appointed captain of theForty-second Infantry July 28, 1866; and was detailedon recruiting service at Newark-, New Jersey, and Har-risburg, Pennsylvania, from September, 1866, to April,1867, when he was ordered to Madison Barracks, NewYork, where he commanded his company until August,1867, and then was transferred to Fort Porter, New June, 1868, he was on waiting orders and conductedrecruits to California. In October, 186S, he was detailedat West Point as quartermaster of the Military Academy,. remaining there until August, , at which time hewas ordered to Washington, 1). C, as deputy governor ofthe Soldiers 1 lomc. Upon being relieved from duty at the Soldiers Homein July, 1875, having been assigned to the First Artillery,December 15, 1870, he took station at St. Augustine,Florida, but was transferred to Fort Trumbull, Connec-ticut, the following December, remaining there until Jul),1876, when ordered to Fort Sill, Indian Territory. InNovember, 1876, Captain McCrea was ordered to Wash-ington, D. C, and in April, 1877, again took station atFort Trumbull, from which point he was sent to assistin suppressing the railroad disturbances in to Fort Trumbull in the following November,he remained there until November, 1881, when his regi-ment was transferred to the Pacific coast, and he tookstation at the Presidio of San Francisco, lie afterwardsserved at Fort Winfield Scott, California,
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