. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . men, and controlled all questions concerningthe people and property, so as to soon restore orderand quiet. In November, 1865, he was appointed captain of Inde-pendent Company of Pontoniers (white). Department ofthe Gulf. In 1866 Captain Houston was offered an appointmentas cadet at the Military Academy, and also a commissionin the regular service, which were declined. After his war service was over he entered the employ-ment of the Engineer Department, United States Army,and has remained continuously engaged in this depa
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . men, and controlled all questions concerningthe people and property, so as to soon restore orderand quiet. In November, 1865, he was appointed captain of Inde-pendent Company of Pontoniers (white). Department ofthe Gulf. In 1866 Captain Houston was offered an appointmentas cadet at the Military Academy, and also a commissionin the regular service, which were declined. After his war service was over he entered the employ-ment of the Engineer Department, United States Army,and has remained continuously engaged in this depart-ment up to the present time, serving on the New Englandcast and on works connected with the Great Lakes andrivers of the Northwest, living at Newport, Rhode Island,Chicago, and Milwaukee. Captain Houston is a Companion of the Loyal 1of the United States, through the Commandery of Wis-consin, and has served as member of council, chan-cellor, and junior vice-commander, and as recorder fromMay, 1889, until the present time. 2;o OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). ACTING MASTER C. B. DAHLGREN, Acting Master C. B. Dahlgren, born October 23,1839, in Bucks Count}-. Pennsylvania, is the eldest sonof the late Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren, , andol his first wife, Mary C. Bunker, of Philadelphia, andbrother of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, killed March 2, 1864,near Richmond, Virginia, while commanding the advanceof the Kilpatrick raid. During his residence in Washington from 1848 to 1857,his father was stationed at the navy-yard, engaged indeveloping his afterwards famous system of heavy ord-nance, so that he became proficient in everything pertain-ing to seamanship, light and heavy ordnance, battaliondrill, etc. Me then passed four years at West Point Foundry,in casting, fitting, and proving the heavy naval ordnam e,and which experience was put to practical use during thesucceeding four years of the Civil War, in which he par-ticipated from the first to the last, and wa
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