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... Major and five companies to Fort Hamilton , and a Major and five companies to Fort Wadsworth , Staten Island . June 11th , the regiment , except Company H , then in measles quarantine , left Camp Black at noon , and the Colonel ...
... Major and five companies to Fort Hamilton , and a Major and five companies to Fort Wadsworth , Staten Island . June 11th , the regiment , except Company H , then in measles quarantine , left Camp Black at noon , and the Colonel ...
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... Major Chase , with Sergeant - Major Burton , Assistant Surgeon Ashley , Hospital Steward Hogan , Hospital Corps , Privates Cowles , Company H , and Rappe , Company B , left Camp Presidio , Cal . , and boarded packet " Charles Nelson ...
... Major Chase , with Sergeant - Major Burton , Assistant Surgeon Ashley , Hospital Steward Hogan , Hospital Corps , Privates Cowles , Company H , and Rappe , Company B , left Camp Presidio , Cal . , and boarded packet " Charles Nelson ...
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... Major Scott , Major Emmet , Companies A , B , and the remainder of Company D , and arrived at Honolulu , September 3rd , at 8.30 a . m . . The troops aboard her left and joined the regiment on the " Irwin Tract . " August 30th , camp of ...
... Major Scott , Major Emmet , Companies A , B , and the remainder of Company D , and arrived at Honolulu , September 3rd , at 8.30 a . m . . The troops aboard her left and joined the regiment on the " Irwin Tract . " August 30th , camp of ...
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... Major William C. Langfitt , 2nd Regiment , Volunteer Engineers , represented the Army at the Annexation ceremonies of transfer of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States . On the 28th of August Major - General Henry C. Merriam and ...
... Major William C. Langfitt , 2nd Regiment , Volunteer Engineers , represented the Army at the Annexation ceremonies of transfer of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States . On the 28th of August Major - General Henry C. Merriam and ...
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... Major Edward Field , 3rd Artillery , Acting Inspector General , Depart- ment of California . ( Extracts from Major Field's Inspection report will be found at the end of this report . ) The regiment having been ordered to San Francisco ...
... Major Edward Field , 3rd Artillery , Acting Inspector General , Depart- ment of California . ( Extracts from Major Field's Inspection report will be found at the end of this report . ) The regiment having been ordered to San Francisco ...
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Page 120 - If by reason of defects in existing laws, or in the execution of them, in the several States, or any of them, it shall be found necessary to provide for enrolling the militia and otherwise putting this act into execution, the President is authorized in such cases to make all necessary rules and regulations...
Page 29 - for gallant and meritorious services in the field during the Rebellion,
Page 104 - He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York, in 1821, and in February of the same year he was elected to the United States Senate, and re-elected in 1827.
Page 313 - Gloucester was due mainly to the accuracy and rapidity of the fire. The efficiency of this fire, as well as that of the ship generally, was largely due to the intelligent and unremitting efforts of the executive officer, Lieutenant Harry P. Huse. The result is more to his credit when it is remembered that a large proportion of the officers and men were untrained when the Gloucester was commissioned. Throughout the action he was on the bridge and carried out my orders with great coolness.
Page 257 - July 1898 for diet gal in leading a charge of skirmishers against the enemy's rifle pits taking them with their occupants and stubbornly and successfully resisting two determined attacks of the enemy to retake the works in front of Atlanta Ga 3 Aug 1864 while serving as capt A 30 Ind vol inf ami brig officer of the day; killed 19 Dec 1899 in battle of San Mateo 1
Page 63 - ... Stone was born September 30, 1824, at Greenfield, Massachusetts; graduated from West Point July i, 1845, and was assigned to the ordnance corps. During the Mexican War he was attached to the only siege battery in the army. He served on the staff of General Scott, and distinguished himself throughout the campaign which ended in the capture of the city of Mexico. He resigned from the army November 17, 1856, to go in the banking business in San Francisco. To General Stone, more than to any other...
Page 216 - Orders came to us about 9:00 o'clock for the Seventy-First Regiment at once to proceed along the trail where had gone the First United States Cavalry, and reinforce them, our troops having encountered the enemy, met with heavy losses and been repulsed. When we learned the real truth of the rumor all but the repulse proved to be so. The Seventy-First got under way in a few moments. Every man in it was ready for any duty he might confront. We had gone but a little way, when returning wounded men confirmed...
Page 313 - The escape of the Gloucester was due mainly to the accuracy and rapidity of the fire. The efficiency of this fire, as well as that of the ship generally, was largely due to the intelligent and unremitting efforts of the executive officer, Lieutenant Harry P. Huse. The result is more to his credit when it is remembered that a large proportion of the officers and men were untrained when the Gloucester was commissioned. Throughout...
Page 122 - The governors of the respective States will cause an enrollment to be made forthwith by the assessors of the several counties, or by any other officers to be appointed by such governors, of all able,bodied male citizens between the ages of 18 and 45, within the respective counties...
Page 43 - Adelbert Ames : Outline of military and civil history from the Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY Military History. — Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1856, to May 6, 1861, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to SECOND LIEUT., 20 ARTILLERY, MAY 6, 1861.