. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . ugh injured severaltimes in previous affairs. He spent three months at theChesapeake Hospital at Fortress Monroe, where he wasdetailed on a military commission to try parties chargedwith victualling the enemy across the lines in the DismalSwamp region. Major Diller, despairing of being able to renew activeservice on the front, was, at his own request, honorablymustered out at Harrisburg, November 28, 1864. Since the war Major Diller has resided in New York,first as an associate of his old army companion, the genialMiles
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . ugh injured severaltimes in previous affairs. He spent three months at theChesapeake Hospital at Fortress Monroe, where he wasdetailed on a military commission to try parties chargedwith victualling the enemy across the lines in the DismalSwamp region. Major Diller, despairing of being able to renew activeservice on the front, was, at his own request, honorablymustered out at Harrisburg, November 28, 1864. Since the war Major Diller has resided in New York,first as an associate of his old army companion, the genialMiles OReilly (General Charles G. Halpine), in thepublication of the New York Citizen; next as passen-ger agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad; then in manu-facturing in Cohoes, Albany County. In 1876 he wasappointed to a position in the U. S. civil service in NewYork City, which place he still occupies. In 1870 he married Kate, the daughter of F. ElderMetzger, of Hanover, Pennsylvania. Their two children,Irma and LeRoy, are living. 3§ OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY volunteer). BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL ELLIS SPEAR, Brevet Brigadier-General Ellis Spear was born inKnox Count)-, Maine, in 1834, and spent his earl}- yearsupon a Maine farm. He graduated at Bowdoin Collegein 1858, among the first of his class. Like very main-young men of those times, he taught school after leavingcollege. In the summer of 1862 he raised a company, ofwhich he was commissioned captain. This company wasassigned to the Twentieth Maine Vol. Infantry as Co. G. The regiment was immediately brigaded in the ThirdBrigade of the First Division of the Fifth Arm)- Corps,in which it served continuously to the close of the war,sharing in all the battles ami campaigns of the Army ofthe Potomac. Captain Spear was promoted to be majorof the regiment in August of 1863, and soon thereaftersucceeded to the command of the regiment. During the greater part of the winter of 1863 and 1864he was president of a court-martial. H
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