COMPANY G

Captain Newton Martin Curtis was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel and colonel One Hundred and Forty-second New York; brevet brigadiergeneral U. S. V.; commanded brigades in the Tenth, the Eighteenth and the Twenty-fourth Corps; led the assault at Fort Fisher, North Carolina; was promoted brigadier-general U. S. V. on the field, his appointment having been written on a sheet of foolscap by the Secretary of War "for gallant services in the capture of Fort Fisher"; was promoted major-general by brevet for the same action, and given a Medal of Honor for being "The first man to pass through the stockade: he personally led each assault on the traverses, and was four times wounded." After the surrender at Appomattox he was appointed chief of staff Department of Virginia, and later commander of Southwestern Virginia; was mustered out January 15, 1866. He is a member of the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; was Commander of the Department of New York, G. A. R. in 1888. Was appointed collector of customs, district of Oswegatchie; was member of New York Assembly 1884 to 1890 inclusive; was member of the Fifty-second, the Fifty-third and the Fifty-fourth Congresses. He was author of the bill in the New York legislature to establish the St. Lawrence State Hospital; author of the bill in Congress that separated the soldiers of the United States Army convicted of violations of military offences from those convicted of common law crimes; author of the bill to abolish the penalty of death for eighteen offences under Federal laws and providing for the finding by the jury in cases of murder and of rape of verdicts of "guilty without capital punishment," the two offences for which executions are still possible whenever the jury does not qualify the verdict. He had charge of the "William and Mary College bill" in the Fifty-second Congress, which gave from the Federal Treasury sixty-five thousand dollars to restore the library wantonly burned by a Federal soldier during the Civil War when within the lines of the Union Army. He is a life member of the New York Agricultural Society, and was its president in 1880; is a life member of the American Shorthorn Breeders' Association, and a life member of the Shorthorn Breeders' Association of Great Britain. He was one of the committee to locate the New York Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, the first secretary of the board of control of the station, and for six years its president. Since 1898 he has been an assistant inspector-general of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

First Lieutenant Simon C. Vedder was appointed captain and commissary of subsistence; second lieutenant Twenty-eighth U. S. Infantry; promoted to be captain and breveted major. He was retired in 1891, and died in 1892.

First Lieutenant Andrew C. Bayne was appointed captain Veteran Reserve Corps, second lieutenant Forty-second infantry U. S. A., and re

tired on account of injuries received in service. He entered the employ of a fire insurance company, and at his death was vice-president of the Ætna Fire Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn.

Sergeant Gilman L. Johnson was appointed second lieutenant One Hundred and Forty-second New York, promoted to be first lieutenant. After his muster out was graduated from St. Lawrence University Law School, and began the practice of his profession in Iowa, where he has held various official positions, including membership in the lower house and senate of the state legislature.

Corporal James McKelvey re-enlisted in the Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, and was promoted to a lieutenancy.

Private Charles B. Jillson was elected to the legislature of the State of California.

COMPANY H

Private Nelson L. Trussell re-enlisted in the Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, and was promoted to a lieutenancy.

Private Laughlin F. Maginn became a successful lawyer in Nebraska.

COMPANY I

Captain Joel J. Seaver was promoted to be major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the Sixteenth, and brevet brigadier-general. He was elected a member of the New York Constitutional Convention of 1867. He continued to edit the Malone Palladium for many years after his muster out of service, and maintained its high character as a leading paper, advocating the principles of the Republican party.

First Lieutenant Frederick F. Wead was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the Ninety-eighth New York, and was killed while leading his regiment in the charge at Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 3rd, 1864. Musician Arthur M. Grant was transferred to the Eighteenth New York, and was promoted to a lieutenancy.

COMPANY K

Sergeant Charles Grant enlisted in the Thirteenth New York Cavalry and was promoted to be first lieutenant.

Private Hiram H. Ketchum was appointed second lieutenant in the Thirteenth U. S. Infantry, and rose through the grades to be major of the Twenty-second Infantry. He was retired in 1898, and died a month later.

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