. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . t major-general. At the battle ofFive Forks he was once more assigned to the commandof the First Division of the Fifth Corps, which marchedfrom there to Appomattox Court-House with the in the advance of the corps the morning Sheridanstruck Appomattox, he formed his division in two linesof battle, with a cloud of skirmishers in front, and forcedthe enemy to retire behind the town, and received thesurrender of a rebel brigade before the general surrendertook place. The next day General Bartlett was appointed
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . t major-general. At the battle ofFive Forks he was once more assigned to the commandof the First Division of the Fifth Corps, which marchedfrom there to Appomattox Court-House with the in the advance of the corps the morning Sheridanstruck Appomattox, he formed his division in two linesof battle, with a cloud of skirmishers in front, and forcedthe enemy to retire behind the town, and received thesurrender of a rebel brigade before the general surrendertook place. The next day General Bartlett was appointed to n 1the surrender of the infantry arms of (General Lees Bartlett was hit six times, but never for a daycrave up the command of his troops. After the closethe war he was appointed by President Johnson ministerresident to Stockholm, where he remained three yi He served as deputy commissioner oi pensions underPresident Cleveland. He died January 14, 1893, in Balti-more, and was interred at Arlington, January 17. 320 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). \ \ MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM F. SMITH, Major-General William F. Smith was born in Ver-mont, and graduated from the United States MilitaryAcademy July i, 1845. He was promoted brevet secondlieutenant of topographical engineers the same day ; sec-ond lieutenant July 14, 1849 ! nrst lieutenant March 3,185^; and captain, for fourteen years continuous ser-vice, July 1, 1859. He first served on a survey of theNorthern Lakes and at the Military Academy as assist-ant professor of mathematics to 1848, when he was de-tailed as assistant topographical engineer on explorationsin the Department of Texas, on the survey of a boundarybetween the United States and Mexico, on explorationsin Texas again, on the survey of a canal-route acrossFlorida, and again on explorations in Texas until [855>when he was ordered to the Military Academy as princi-pal assistant professor of mathematics, where he remaineduntil 1856. He was t
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