. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . nd assistant commissary of sub-sistence, and post adjutant and temporary commandantOglethorpe Barracks, Plattsburg Barracks, in field atColumbia, South Carolina, Edgefield Court-House, amiTallahassee, as quartermaster and commissary for all thetroops there employed in political troubles of 1876-77;in command, Plattsburg Barracks, February to April,1877; post adjutant, Fort Independence; in field withbattery during labor riots, 1877, at Philadelphia, Pitts-bur-, and Reading, Pennsylvania; in command, FortWood, New York harb
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . nd assistant commissary of sub-sistence, and post adjutant and temporary commandantOglethorpe Barracks, Plattsburg Barracks, in field atColumbia, South Carolina, Edgefield Court-House, amiTallahassee, as quartermaster and commissary for all thetroops there employed in political troubles of 1876-77;in command, Plattsburg Barracks, February to April,1877; post adjutant, Fort Independence; in field withbattery during labor riots, 1877, at Philadelphia, Pitts-bur-, and Reading, Pennsylvania; in command, FortWood, New York harbor, from July, 1878, to July, 1879;captain, July 18, 1S79. In temporary command, FortWarren, serving with his battery (I) there until Novem-ber, 18S1. In command, post and battery at Fort Canby,Washington Territory; Fort Stevens, Oregon, Decem-ber, 1881, to April, 1883. Retired by reason of disa-bilities received in service, September 20, 1883. Captain White now resides at 25 Lambert Avenue,Boston Highlands, Massachusetts. 454 OFFICERS OF TFIE ARMY AND NAVY (regular). PAYMASTER E. N. WH1TEH0USE, Paymaster Edward Norman Whitehouse is the second son of the late Right Reverend H. J. White-house, Bishop of Illinois. He was born in New York,December 12, 1840; his family being a well-known oneboth in New York and Chicago, and connected withliterary and educational public movements in both cities. Paymaster Whitehouse graduated from Columbia Col-lege, in New York, in i860. With a strong liking for the sea, the Civil War, whichoccurred while he was still in doubt as to the choice ofa profession, led him to seek an appointment as actingassistant paymaster, July, 1862. He served in the Tyler, one of the first of the cele-brated Mississippi gun-boats, and afterwards in the Tus-cumbia and Choctaw, iron-clads of the same squad-ron. He was present at the first operations beforeVicksburg, and the passage of the batteries there, in 1862. In the Choctaw he participated in much hardfighti
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