There is little to say about this page as it will speak for it self. About all I can add is there will be some added information on some of this men. There were hundreds of thousands of men who give ( Gallant and Meritorious ) service in the history of the many wars we have been through. That being so it would be imposable to put all their names on this one page let along ten pages. This being the case, I will list some where around 500, names. I will try to list these names by year and war if I can. As there will be so many names and more then likely no order to them I would do a ( Name Search.) it will make it easier to find your ancestor.
Note. Those of you who find a ancestor on this list, and would like to know if there is more information on him can find my address in my profile, be glad to hear from you, please note all information will be military info, unless I become real lucky.
1. Lieut. Colonel A. C. W. Fanning, of the 4th Regiment of Artillery, to be colonel by brevet, 31st December, 1835, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle near the Withlacoochie under General Clinch, and in the defense of Fort Mellon, Florida.
2. Lieut. Colonel William S. Harney, of the 2d Regiment of Dragoons, to be colonel by brevet, 7th December, 1840, for gallant and meritorious conduct in several successive engagements with the hostile Indians in Florida.
3. Captain Gabriel J. Raines, of the 7th Regiment of Infantry, to be major by brevet, 28th of April, 1840, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the action with the Indians near Fort King, Florida
4. Brevet Major William O. Freeman, assistant adjutant-general, for the brevet of lieutenant-colonel in the Army of the United States, to rank from May 30, 1848, for meritorious conduct, particularly in the performance of his duties in the prosecution of the war with Mexico.
5. William B. Blair was nominated as 1st lieutenant of the 2d Artillery, to be first lieutenant by brevet, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Cerro Gordo.
6. First Lieutenant William B. Blair, 2d Artillery, to be captain by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Cerro Gordo, to date from the 18th of April, 1847.
7. Brevet First Lieutenant Oliver H. P. Taylor, second lieutenant in the First Regiment of Dragoons, to be captain by brevet, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales, Mexico, to date from March 16, 1848.
8. Brevet First Lieutenant Oliver H. P. Taylor, second lieutenant of the First Regiment of Dragoons, to be captain by brevet, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales, Mexico, to date from March 16, 1848.
9. Brevet Colonel Edwin V. Sumner, lieutenant colonel First Dragoons, to be brigadier-general by brevet for highly meritorious services as commander of the forces in New Mexico, to date from October 29, 1852.
10. Brevet Major Samuel P. Heintzelman, captain of the 2d Regiment of infantry, to be lieutenant colonel by brevet, for gallant conduct and distinguished services as commander of an expedition against the Indians in Southern California, to date from December 19, 1851.
11. Captain Howard Stansbury, of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, to be major by brevet, for highly distinguished services as chief of the scientific exploration and survey of the valley of the great Salt Lake of Utah, to date from March 10, 1852.
12. Brevet Captain James Oakes, first lieutenant in the Second Regiment of Dragoons, to be major by brevet, for gallantry and good conduct in two affairs against the Indians in Texas, July 11 and August 12, 1850, to date from August 12, 1850.
13. Captain John W. Phelps, of the Fourth Regiment of Artillery, to be major by brevet, for highly meritorious services as commander of Fort Brown, on the Rio Grande, in preserving the neutral relations of the United States with the Republic of Mexico, to date from November 28, 1851.
14. Second Lieutenant Ambrose E. Burnside, of the Third Regiment of Artillery (promoted first lieutenant December 12, 1851), to be first lieutenant by brevet, for gallant conduct in an affair against the Apache Indians, near Las Vegas, New Mexico, to date from August 16, 1849.
15. The brevet of major conferred on Captain Benjamin S. Roberts, of the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, for "gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, Mexico, September 13, 1847," be changed so as to apply to the battle of Contreras, in which he was distinguished, to date from August 20, 1847, and the brevet of lieutenant-colonel, erroneously conferred on him for actions in which he did not participate, viz, "for gallant and meritorious conduct with the enemy at Matamoros, November 23, 1847, and at the Pass of Galaxara, Mexico, November 24, 1847, to date from November 24, 1847, "to be changed so as to apply to the battle of Chapultepec, in which he was distinguished, and to embody the phraseology of his brevet commission of major (as above quoted) for that action.
16. The brevet of captain conferred on First Lieutenant Lewis G. Arnold, of the Second Regiment of Artillery, for "gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Cherubusco, Mexico, August 20, 1847," to be changed so as to apply to the siege of Vera Cruz, in which he was distinguished and wounded, to date from March 29, 1847; and the brevet of major conferred on him for "gallant conduct at Chapultepec, to date from September 13th, 1847," in which action he was not present, being disabled by a wound received at Cherubusco, to be changed so as to apply to this last-named battle, in which he distinguished himself, to date from August 20, 1847.
List of officers for brevet promotion for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, Texas, to rank from the 9th of May, 1846.
Captain Pitcairn Morrison, 4th Infantry, since major of the 8th Infantry, to be major by brevet.
Captain Gouverneur Morris, 4th Infantry, to be major by brevet.
Captain Charles H. Larned, 4th Infantry, to be major by brevet.
Brevet Captain Ripley A. Arnold, 2d Dragoons, to be major by brevet.
First Lieutenant Oscar F. Winship, 2d Dragoons, since assistant adjutant-general, to be captain by brevet.
First Lieutenant John A. Whitall, since captain 5th Infantry, to be captain by brevet.
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List of officers for brevet promotion for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Cerro Gordo, Mexico, to rank from the 18th of April, 1847.
Captain William P. Bainbridge, 4th Artillery, to be major by brevet.
First Lieutenant George Sykes, 3d Infantry, to be captain by brevet.
First Lieutenant Seth Williams, 1st Artillery, to be captain by brevet
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List of officers for brevet promotion for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, Mexico, to rank from the 20th of August, 1847.
First Lieutenant Francis Woodbridge, 2d Artillery, to be captain by brevet.
Brevet First Lieutenant Truman Seymour, 1st Artillery, to be captain by brevet.
Second Lieutenant Simon B. Buckner, 6th Infantry, to be first lieutenant by brevet.
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List of officers for brevet promotion for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey, Mexico, to rank from the 8th of September, 1847.
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Lee, major 4th Infantry, to be colonel by brevet.
Brevet Major William Chapman, captain 5th Infantry, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet.
Brevet Major Horace Brooks, captain 2d Artillery, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet.
Brevet Captain Francis Woodbridge, 2d Artillery, to be major by brevet. First Lieutenant.
John Beardsley, 8th Infantry, to be captain by brevet.
Brevet First Lieutenant Frederick T. Dent, 5th Infantry, to be captain by brevet.
Second Lieutenant Ulysses Grant, since first lieutenant 4th Infantry, to be first lieutenant by brevet.
Second Lieutenant Edmund Russell, 4th Infantry, to be first lieutenant by brevet.
Second Lieutenant Edwin S. Howe, 6th Infantry, to be first lieutenant by brevet.
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List of officers for brevet promotion for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, Mexico, to date from the 13th of September, 1847.
Brevet Major Jacob B. Backinstos, captain of Rifles, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet.
Brevet Major David Ruggles, captain 5th Infantry, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet.
Brevet Major Henry L. Scott, captain 4th Infantry. to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet.
Brevet Captain Roswell S. Ripley, 1st lieutenant 2d Artillery, to be major by brevet.
Brevet Captain John Sedgwick, 1st lieutenant 2d Artillery, to be major by brevet. Brevet.
Captain Thomas Williams, 1st lieutenant 4th Artillery, to be major by brevet. Brevet.
Captain Pinkney Lugenbeel, 1st lieutenant 5th infantry, to be major by brevet. Brevet.
Captain Thomas J. Jackson, 1st lieutenant 1st Artillery, to be major by brevet. Brevet.
Captain Granville O. Haller, 4th Infantry, to be major by brevet.
Brevet Captain Fitz-John Porter, 1st lieutenant 4th Artillery, to be major by brevet.
First Lieutenant Henry M. Judah, 4th infantry, to be captain by brevet.
First Lieutenant Marcus D. L. Simpson, 2d Artillery, to be captain by brevet.
Brevet First Lieutenant Ralph W. Kirkham, 2d lieutenant 6th Infantry, to be captain by brevet.
Brevet First Lieutenant Charles P. Stone, Ordnance, to be captain by brevet.
Brevet First Lieutenant John P. Hatch, 2d lieutenant Rifles, to be captain by brevet.
Brevet First Lieutenant George B. McClellan, 2d lieutenant Engineers, to be captain by brevet.
Brevet First Lieutenant Maurice Maloney, 4th Infantry, to be captain by brevet.
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List of officers for brevet promotion for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales, Mexico, to rank from the 16th of March, 1848.
Major Benjamin L. Beall, 1st Dragoons, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet.
Captain William N. Grier, 1st Dragoons, to be major by brevet.
First Lieutenant William E. Prince, 1st Infantry, to be captain by brevet.
First Lieutenant John Love, 1st Dragoons, to be captain by brevet.
Brevet First Lieutenant Oliver H. Perry, 2d lieutenant 1st Dragoons, to be captain by brevet.
First Lieutenant Alexander B. Dyer, Ordnance, to be captain by brevet.
Second Lieutenant John Adams, 1st Dragoons, to be first lieutenant by brevet.
First Lieutenant Henry Little, since captain 7th Infantry, to be captain by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Monterey, Mexico, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
Brevet Major Joseph H. Eaton, captain 3d Infantry, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Buena Vista, Mexico, to rank from the 23d February, 1847.
Major Philip St. George Cooke, 2d Dragoons, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for meritorious conduct in California, to rank from the 20th of February, 1847.
Major Albert G. Bennett, Pay Department, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in an affair with the guerrilleros at the National Bridge, Mexico, in which he contributed in saving a large amount of Government specie from falling into the hands of the enemy, to date from the 11th June, 1847.
Captain Charles Ruff, Rifles, to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the affair at San Juan de los Llanos, Mexico, to date from the 1st of August, 1847.
First Lieutenant John G. Walker, Rifles, to be captain by brevet, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the affair at San Juan de los Llanos, to date from the 1st of August, 1847.
Captain George A. H. Blake, 2d Dragoons, to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the affair at San Augustine, Mexico, to date from the 17th of August, 1847.
Brevet Major Benjamin S. Roberts, captain of Rifles, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the actions with the enemy at Matamoras, November 23d, and at the Pass of Galaxara, Mexico, November 24, 1847, to rank from the 24th November, 1847.
The brevet of lieutenant-colonel conferred upon Captain Benjamin Huger, ordnance, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, to be changed so as to apply to the battle of Molino del Rey, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 8th September, 1847.
The brevet of lieutenant-colonel conferred upon Captain Thompson Morris, since major 1st Infantry, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to be changed so as to apply to the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 20th of August, 1847.
The brevet of major conferred upon Captain George Naumon, 1st Artillery, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, to be changed so as to apply to the battle of Cerro Gordo, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 18th of April, 1847; and the same officer to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, to date from the 20th of August, 1847.
The brevet of major conferred upon Captain Joseph R. Smith, 2d Infantry, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, to be changed so as to apply to the battle of Cerro Gordo, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 18th of April, 1847; and the same officer to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, to date from the 20th of August, 1847.
The brevet of major conferred upon Captain Richard B. Scriven, 8th Infantry, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey, to be changed so as to apply to the battle of Monterey, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 23d September, 1846; and the same officer to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey, to date from the 8th September, 1847.
The brevet of major conferred upon Captain Abraham C. Myers, assistant quartermaster, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, to be changed so as to apply to the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, in which he was distinguished, to date the 9th of May, 1846.
The brevet of major conferred upon Captain Joseph Hooker, assistant adjutant-general, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to be changed so as to apply to the affair at the National Bridge, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 11th June, 1847; and the same officer to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to date from 13th September, 1847.
The brevet of major conferred upon Captain Andrew Porter, Rifles, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to be changed so as to apply to the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 20th of August, 1847; and the same officer to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to date from the 13th of September, 1847.
The brevet of captain conferred upon 1st Lieutenant John F. Rowland, since captain 2d Artillery, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Monterey, to be changed so as to apply to the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 9th of May, 1846; and the same officer to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Monterey, to date from the 23d September, 1846.
The brevet of captain conferred upon 1st Lieutenant W. H. French, since captain 1st Artillery, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, to be changed so as to apply to the battle of Cerro Gordo, to date from the 18th April, 1847; and the same officer to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, to date from the 20th August, 1847.
The brevet of captain conferred upon 1st Lieutenant Richard P. Hammond, 3d Artillery, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, to be changed so as to apply to the battle of Cerro Gordo, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 18th of April, 1847; and the same officer to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, to date from the 20th of August, 1847.
The brevet of captain conferred upon 1st Lieutenant Zealous B. Tower, of Engineers, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to be changed so as to apply to the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 20th of August, 1847; and the same officer to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to date from the 13th September, 1847.
The brevet of captain conferred upon Second Lieutenant Gustavus W. Smith, of Engineers, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to be changed so as to apply to the battle of Contreras, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 20th of August, 1847.
The brevet of first lieutenant conferred upon Second Lieutenant Frederick Steel, since first lieutenant 2d Infantry, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to be changed so as to apply to the battle of Contreras, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 20th of August, 1847; and the same officer to be captain by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to date from the 13th September, 1847.
The brevet of first lieutenant conferred upon 2d Lieutenant Barnard E. Bee, 3d Infantry, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to be changed so as to apply to the battle of Cerro Gordo, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 18th of April, 1847; and the same officer to be captain by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to date from the 13th of September, 1847.
The brevet of first lieutenant conferred upon 2d Lieutenant James Stuart, Rifles, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to be changed so as to apply to the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 20th of August, 1847; and the same officer to be captain by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec, to date from the 13th September, 1847.
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17. Captain Edmund B. Alexander, 3d Infantry, has been promoted to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Cerro Gordo, and lieutenant-colonel by brevet for like conduct in the battle of Chapultepec. I recommend that his second brevet, that of lieutenant-colonel, be made to apply to the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, in which he was most particularly distinguished, to date from the 20th of August, 1847.
18. Major John L. Gar?ner, 4th Artillery, has been promoted to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Contreras. I recommend that this brevet be made to apply to the battle of Cerro Gordo, in which he commanded his regiment, to date from the 18th of April, 1847, and that he be nominated to be colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Contreras, Mexico, to date from the 20th August, 1847.
19. Captain Francis Taylor, 1st Artillery, has been promoted to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Churubusco, and lieutenant-colonel by brevet for like conduct in the battle of Chapultepec. I recommend that the brevet of major be made to apply to the battle of Cerro Gordo, to date from the 18th April, 1847, and that the brevet of lieutenant-colonel be made to apply to the battle of Churubusco, to date from the 20th August, 1847.
20. First Lieutenant John F. Reynolds, 3d Artillery, has been promoted to be captain by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Buena Vista. I recommend that this brevet be made to apply to the battles of Monterey, Mexico, in which he was distinguished, to date from the 23d of September, 1846, and that he be nominated to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Buena Vista, Mexico, to date from the 23d of February, 1847.
21. First Lieutenant Earl Van Dorn, 7th Infantry, has been promoted to be captain by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. He served with distinction in the battle of Cerro Gordo, and I recommend that his brevet of captain be made to apply to that battle, to date from the 18th of April, 1847. I also recommend that he be nominated to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, to date from the 20th August, 1847.
22. First Lieutenant Roswell S. Ripley, 2d Artillery, has been promoted to be captain by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chapultepec. I recommend that this brevet be made to apply to the battle of Cerro Gordo, Mexico, to date from the 18th of April, 1847.
23. First Lieutenant Zealous B. Tower, Engineers, has been promoted to be first lieutenant by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Cerro Gordo, and major by brevet for like conduct in the battle of Chapultepec. As the grade of this last brevet is the result of an error in the nomination, I recommend that the brevet of major be changed to that of captain.
24. Second Lieutenant Lorimer Graham, 10th Infantry, has been promoted to be 1st lieutenant by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Churubusco. I recommend that this brevet be made to apply to the affair with the enemy at Mil Flores, Mexico, to date from the 13th of August, 1847, and theft he be nominated to be captain by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Churubusco, Mexico, to date from the 20th August, 1847.
25. Major William Dulany, of the Marine Corps, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet in said Corps, from the 14th of September, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the storming and capture of the castle of Chapultepec and the capture of the Belen Gate and the City of Mexico.
Florida Indian War.
26. Lieut. Colonel A. C. W. Fanning, of the 4th Regiment of Artillery, to be colonel by brevet, 31st December, 1835, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle near the Withlacoochie under General Clinch, and in the defense of Fort Mellon, Florida.
27. Lieut. Colonel William S. Harney, of the 2d Regiment of Dragoons, to be colonel by brevet, 7th December, 1840, for gallant and meritorious conduct in several successive engagements with the hostile Indians in Florida.
28. Captain Gabriel J. Raines, of the 7th Regiment of Infantry, to be major by brevet, 28th of April, 1840, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the action with the Indians near Fort King, Florida.
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Civil War.
29. Colonel Samuel P. Heintzelman, of the Seventeenth Regiment of Infantry, to be brevet brigadier-general, May 31, 1862, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia.
30. Colonel Erasmus D. Keyes, of the Eleventh Regiment of Infantry, to be brevet brigadier-general, May 31, 1862, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia.
31. Colonel John-Fitz Porter, of the Fifteenth Regiment of Infantry, to be brevet brigadier-general, June 27, 1862, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chickahominy, Virginia.
32. Colonel William B. Franklin, of the Twelfth Regiment of Infantry, to be brigadier-general by brevet, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle before Richmond, Virginia, to date from June 30, 1862.
33. Colonel S. H. Roberts, of the One hundredth and thirty-ninth New York Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in the attack upon the enemy's works at Fort Harrison, Virginia, to date from October 28, 1864.
34. First Lieutenant William S. Beebe, of the Ordnance Department, for gallant and meritorious services and for intrepidity, daring, and skill in handling men in the face of the enemy to be captain by brevet, to date from July 6, 1864.
35. Brevet Major William H. Harris, United States Army, and captain in the Ordnance Department, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet for gallant and efficient service in the battles from the Rapidan to Petersburg, to date from August 1, 1864.
36. Lieutenant-Colonel Richard C. Drum, Assistant Adjutant-General United States Army, to be colonel by brevet for meritorious and faithful service during the war, to date from September 24, 1864.
37. Colonel Clark R. Wever, of the Seventeenth Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from February 9, 1865.
38. Captain Charles A. Carleton, assistant adjutant-general of Volunteers, to be assistant adjutant-general with the rank of major, for gallant and meritorious services at the capture of Fort Fisher, to date from January 15, 1865.
39. Colonel Thomas J. Henderson, of the One hundred and twelfth Illinois Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the late campaigns in Georgia and Tennessee, and especially at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, to date from November 30, 1864.
40. Colonel James M. Warner, of the First Vermont Artillery and captain in the Eighth United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Spottsylvania Court-House and at the battles of Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek, Va., to date from August 1, 1864.
41. Brevet Major Nathaniel Prime, United States Army, for gallant services at the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet, to date from August 1, 1864.
42. Brigadier-General Thomas H. Ruger, of the United States Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, to date from November 30, 1864.
43. Brevet Colonel Charles G. Loring, United States Volunteers, to be brigadier-general by brevet for gallant and meritorious services during the campaign in East Tennessee and at the siege of Knoxville, to date from August 1, 1864.
44. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William Cutting, United States Volunteers, to be colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious services during the campaign in East Tennessee and at the siege of Knoxville, to date from August 1, 1864.
45. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel James L. Van Buren, United States Volunteers, to be colonel by brevet for gallant and meritorious services during the campaign in East Tennessee and at the siege of Knoxville, to date from August 1, 1864.
46. Captain William Dickinson, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Bull Run, Virginia, to date from July 21, 1861.
47. Captain William W. Rossell, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Valverde, New Mexico to date from February 21, 1862.
48. Captain Francis H. Bates, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia, to date from June 27, 1862.
49. Captain Thomas M. Walker, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia, to date from June 27, 1862.
50. Captain William M. Quimby, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Cedar Mountain, Virginia, to date from August 9, 1862.
51. Captain Joseph M. Locke, of the Fourteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Bull Run (second), Virginia, to date from August 30, 1862.
52. Captain Patrick Collins, of the Fourteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Antietam, Maryland, to date from September 17, 1862.
53. Captain Robert P. Barry, of the Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Murfreesboro', Tennessee, to date from December 31, 1862.
54. Captain A. B. Thompson, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Murfreesforo', Tennessee, to date from December 31, 1862.
55. Captain William R. Pease, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the siege of Suffolk, Virginia, to date from May 4, 1863.
56. Captain William H. Walcott, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to date from July 2, 1863.
57. Captain Louis E. Yorke, of the Thirteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to date from July 4, 1863.
58. Brevet Captain Henry C. Robinett, first lieutenant of the First Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to date from July 4, 1863.
59. Captain William J. Slidell, of the Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battles of Murfreesboro' and Mission Ridge, Tennessee to date from November 25, 1863.
60. Captain Solomon S. Robinson, of the Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the Atlanta campaign, to date from September 1, 1864.
61. Captain William S. McManus, of the Fifteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Mission Ridge, Tennessee, and during the Atlanta campaign to the battle of Jonesboro', Georgia, to date from September 1, 1864.
62. Captain James Biddle, of the Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the Atlanta campaign, to date from September 1, 1864.
63. Captain Francis McIlvaine, of the Nineteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the Atlanta campaign, to date from September 1, 1864.
64. Captain Lyman S. Strickland, of the Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the Atlanta campaign and in the battle of Jonesboro', Georgia, to date from September 1, 1864.
65. Captain Edward McConnell, of the Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the Atlanta campaign and at the battle of Jonesboro', Georgia, to date from September 1, 1864.
66. Captain Alfred T. Smith, of the Eighth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
67. Brevet Captain Byron Kirby, first lieutenant of the Sixth Regiment United States Infantry, for meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
68. Captain Alexander E. Sheldon, of the Fourth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the capture of Petersburg, Virginia, to date from April 2, 1865.
69. Captain Clayton McMichael, of the Ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the capture of Petersburg, Virginia, to date from April 2, 1865.
70. First Lieutenant Samuel B. Lawrence, of the Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee, to date from April 7, 1862.
71. Captain James F. McElhone, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia, to date from July 27, 1862.
72. Captain Alfred T. Smith, of the Eighth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the Peninsular campaign, to date from July 1, 1862.
73. Captain Patrick Collins, of the Fourteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Bull Run (second), Virginia, to date from August 30, 1862.
74. First Lieutenant John H. Markley, of the Second Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Bull Run (second), to date from August 30, 1862.
75. First Lieutenant Henry C. Robinett, of the First Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Corinth, Mississippi, to date from October 31, 1862.
76. Captain Edward McConnell, of the Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Murfreesboro', Tennessee, to date from December 4, 1862.
77. Captain William H. Walcott, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, to date from May 3, 1863.
78. Captain Alexander E. Sheldon, of the Fourth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, to date from May 3, 1863.
79. First Lieutenant George Williams, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to date from July 2, 1863.
80. First Lieutenant William O. Douglass, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to date from July 2, 1863.
81. First Lieutenant Robert Nelson, of the Thirteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to date from July 4, 1863.
82. First Lieutenant William F. Goodwin, of the Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia to date from September 20, 1863.
83. First Lieutenant Samuel S. Holbrook, of the Fifteenth Regiment United States infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, to date from September 20, 1863.
84. First Lieutenant Merrill N. Hutchinson, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Chickamauga, Georgia, to date from September 20, 1863.
85. First Lieutenant Alfred Townsend, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Chickamauga Georgia, to date from September 20, 1863.
86. First Lieutenant Byron Kirby, of the Sixth Regiment United States Infantry, for meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
87. First Lieutenant John H. Markley, of the Second Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia, to date from June 27, 1862.
88. First Lieutenant Byron Kirby, of the Sixth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Murfreesbore, Tennessee, to date from December 31, 1862.
89. First Lieutenant Robert Nelson, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas, to date from January 10, 1863.
90. John R. Winterbotham, late first lieutenant and adjutant of the One hundred fifty-fifth New York Volunteers, for faithful and meritorious services to date from March 13th, 1865.
91. William H. Riggs, late first lieutenant of the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry, for faithful and meritorious services, to date from March 13th, 1865.
92. Brevet First Lieutenant Elam F. Pigott, late second lieutenant of the Twelfth West Virginia Infantry, for faithful and meritorious services, to date from March 13th, 1865.
93. Milbrey Green, late first lieutenant of the Tenth Massachusetts Battery, for gallant and efficient services, to date from March 13th, 1865.
94. Charles W. Butts, late first lieutenant Of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct, to date from March 13, 1865.
95. Isaac P. Woodell, late first lieutenant of the Veteran Reserve Corps, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to date from March 13th, 1865.
96. Brevet First Lieutenant Levi F. Burnett, late second lieutenant of the Veteran Reserve Corps, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of South Mountain and Antietam, to date from March 13th, 1865.
97. Charles Schurig, late first lieutenant of the Eighty-fourth New York Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Groveton, Virginia, August 29th, 1862, and the Wilderness, Virginia, May 10th, 1864, to date from March 13th, 1865.
98. Brevet First Lieutenant Hector Sears, late second lieutenant of the Veteran Reserve Corps, for gallant conduct in the charge on Port Hudson, Louisiana, May 27th, 1863, and for meritorious services in the Veteran Reserve Corps, to date from March 13, 1865.
99. Henry O. Wheeler, late first lieutenant of the First Vermont Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services in the field, to date from March 13th, 1865.
100. James Kinehare late first lieutenant of the First Vermont Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services in the field, to date from March 13th, 1865.
101. Eri D. Woodbury, late first lieutenant of the First Vermont Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services in the field, to date from March 13th, 1865.
102. Eli Holden, late first lieutenant of the First Vermont Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services in the field, to date from March 13th, 1865.
103. Brevet First Lieutenant George W. Kingsbury, late second lieutenant of the Seventeenth Vermont Volunteers, for faithful and meritorious services, to date from March 13th, 1865.
104. John H. Cook, late first lieutenant of the Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the campaign before Petersburg Virginia, in 1864, to date from March 13th, 1865.
105. Charles H. van Brakle, late first lieutenant of the Fourteenth New York Heavy Artillery, for conspicuous gallantry at Coal Harbor, Virginia, to date from March 13, 1865.
106. Corydon M. Alvord, late first lieutenant of the Eleventh Maine Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Antietam, Md., to date from March 13, 1865.
107. Josiah A. Bean, late first lieutenant of the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers, for faithful and meritorious services, to date from March 13th, 1865.
108. Robertson James, late first lieutenant of the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services, to date from March 18th, 1865.
109. Wyllis Garrett, late first lieutenant of the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services, to date from March 13th, 1865.
110. John M. Hamilton, late first lieutenant of the Nineteenth Regiment United States Colored Infantry, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13th, 1865.
111. Joseph H. Tall, late first lieutenant of the Eighty-sixth New York Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13th, 1865.
112. J. V. De Hanne, late assistant surgeon United States Volunteers, for faithful and meritorious services, to date June 3, 1867.
113. W. H. York, late first lieutenant of the Twentieth Wisconsin Volunteers, for meritorious conduct and good behavior during the war, to date from March 13th, 1865.
114. E. F. C. Klokke, late first lieutenant of the Twenty-fourth Illinois Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13th, 1865.
115. Gard'r S. Hawes, late first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster of the Seventeenth New York Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in the field during the war, to date from March 13th, 1865.
116. Second Lieutenant Thomas E. Merritt, of the Twenty-ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the siege of Port Hudson, La, to date from March 2, 1867.
117. Second Lieutenant Louis H. Rucker, of the Ninth Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Upperville and Beverly Ford, Va., to date from March 2, 1867.
118. Second Lieutenant David A. Griffith, of the Thirtieth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant conduct at the battle of Bull Run (second), Va., to date from March 2, 1867.
119. Second Lieutenant George K. Spencer, of the Nineteenth Regiment United States infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Tupello, Miss., July 13th and 14th, 1864, and Nashville, Tenn., December 15th and 16th, 1864, to date from August 17, 1867.
120. Second Lieutenant Frank P. Gross, of the Ninth Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from August 9, 1867.
121. Second Lieutenant J. Sumner Rogers, of the First Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battles of Hanover Court-House and Gaines' Mills, Va., to date from October 1, 1867.
122. Second Lieutenant George W. Budd, of the Ninth Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and distinguished services at the battle of Corinth, Miss., to date from August 17, 1867.
123. Second Lieutenant John W. Lewis, of the Twenty-third Regiment United States Infantry, for faithful and efficient services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
124. Second Lieutenant Edward Donovan, of the Forty-first Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., to date from March 2, 1867.
125. Second Lieutenant William H. Hugo, of the Twenty-fifth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., to date from March 2, 1867.
126. Second Lieutenant William F. Rice, of the Twenty-third Regiment United States infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 2nd and July 3d, 1863, to date from March 2, 1867.
127. Second Lieutenant Fredrik Rosencrantz, of the Thirty-fourth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the campaign under General McClellan, to date from March 2, 1867.
128. Second Lieutenant George S. L. Ward, of the Thirty-first Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Hatcher's Run, Va., December 9, 1864, to date from March 2, 1867.
129. Second Lieutenant Frank C. Guigan, of the Second Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Hatcher's Run, Va., to date from March 2, 1867.
130. Second Lieutenant John Anderson, of the Twenty-fifth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles before Petersburg, Va., to date from August 10, 1867.
131. Second Lieutenant Frank Thorp, of the Fifth Regiment United States Artillery, for gallant and meritorious services in the siege of Petersburg, Va., to date from March 2, 1867.
132. Second Lieutenant Henry P. Ritzins, of the Thirty-ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., to date from October 23, 1867.
133. First Lieutenant Robert A. Torrey, of the Thirteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at Colliersville, Tenn., October 11, 1863, to date from March 13, 1865.
134. First Lieutenant Jacob Wagner, of the Twenty-ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the attack on Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865, to date from March 2, 1867.
135. Brevet First Lieutenant Thomas E. Merritt, second Lieutenant in the Twenty-ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
136. Brevet First Lieutenant Louis H. Rucker, second lieutenant in the Ninth Regiment United State, Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
137. First Lieutenant Frank W. Hess, of the Twenty ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Kelly's Ford, Va., to date from March 2, 1867
138. Brevet First Lieutenant David A. Griffeth, second lieutenant in the Thirtieth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Antietam, Md., to date from March 2, 1867.
139. First Lieutenant John Whitney, of the Nineteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
140. Brevet First Lieutenant George K. Spencer, second lieutenant in the Nineteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the capture of Spanish Fort, in the siege of Mobile, in Ala, March and April, 1865, to date from August 17, 1867.
141. First Lieutenant George Macomber, of the Thirty-second Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in campaigns of the Army of the Potomac in 1864 and 1865, to date from March 2, 1867.
142. Brevet First Lieutenant Frank P. Gross, second lieutenant in the Ninth Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from August 9, 1867.
143. Brevet First Lieutenant J. Sumner Rogers, second lieutenant in the First Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Bull Run (2d), Va., to date from October 1, 1867.
144. Brevet First Lieutenant George W. Budd, second lieutenant in the Ninth Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and distinguished services at the battle of Nashville, Tenn., to date from August 17, 1867.
145. Brevet First Lieutenant John W. Lewis, seceded lieutenant in the Twenty-third Regiment United States Infantry, for faithful and efficient services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
146. First Lieutenant Charles M. Callahan, of the Third Regiment United States Artillery, for galiant and meritorious services in the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., to date from March 2, 1867.
147. Brevet First Lieutenant John Bannister, second lieutenant in the Forty-third Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
148. Brevet First Lieutenant Edward Donovan, second lieutenant in the Forty-first Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
149. First Lieutenant William G. Fitch, of the United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Hanover Court-House, Va., to date from March 13, 1865.
150. First Lieutenant William Hawley, of the Twentieth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Cedar Mountain, Va., August 9, 1862, to date from March 2, 1867.
151. First Lieutenant Warren R. Dunton, of the Second Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
152. Brevet First Lieutenant William H. Hugo, second lieutenant in the Twenty-fifth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
153. Brevet First Lieutenant William F. Rice, second lieutenant in the Twenty-third Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cool Arbor, and Ream's Station, Va., to date from March 2, 1867.
154. Brevet First Lieutenant Fredrik Rosencrantz, second lieutenant in the Thirty-fourth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the campaign under General Burnside, to date from March 2, 1867.
155. Brevet First, Lieutenant James B. Burbank, second lieutenant in the Third Regiment United States Artillery, for gallant conduct in battle as a staff officer, to date from March 13, 1865.
156. Brevet First Lieutenant George S. L. Ward, second lieutenant in the Thirty-first Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the campaign terminating in Lee's surrender, April 9, 1865, to date from March 2, 1867.
157. Brevet First Lieutenant Frank C. Guigan, second lieutenant in the Second Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
158. Brevet First Lieutenant Frank Thorp, second lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment United States Artillery, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
159. Brevet First Lieutenant Henry P. Ritzins, second lieutenant in the Thirty-ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., to date from October 23, 1867.
160. First Lieutenant Sumner H. Lincoln, of the Twenty-sixth Regiment United Status Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of the Wilderness, Va., to date from March 2, 1867.
161. First Lieutenant George W. Graham, of the Tenth Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
162. Brevet First Lieutenant Paul R. Hanbrick, second lieutenant in the Forty-fifth Regiment United Status Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
163. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel William H. Hick, second lieutenant in the Fourth Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services during the wary to date from March 7, 1869.
164. Second Lieutenant John B. Guthrie, of the Thirteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
165. Second Lieutenant William Conway, of the Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Bull Run, Va., and Gettysburg, Pa., to date from March 2, 1867.
166. Second Lieutenant Charles L. Cooper, of the Thirty-ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for meritorious services at the battle of Gettysburg, Pa., to date from March 2, 1869.
167. Brevet First Lieutenant John B. Guthrie, second lieutenant in the Thirteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
168. Brevet First Lieutenant William Conway, second lieutenant in the Sixteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
169. Brevet First Lieutenant Charles L. Cooper, second lieutenant in the Thirty-ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant, conduct in front of Petersburg, Va., on the 3d of April, 1865, and in the campaign ending with the fall of Petersburg and Richmond, Va., and the surrender of General Lee, at Appomattox Court-House, Va., to date from March 2, 1867.
170. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William Redwood Price, major in the Eighth Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services in an engagement with Indians in the vicinity of Walker's Spring, in the Aquarious Range, Arizona Territory, on the 10th and 13th of December, 1868, to date from December 10, 1868.
171. Roger L. Littlefield, late captain of the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Petersburg, Va., June 16, 1864, to date from March 13, 1865.
172. Jacob H. Beattes, late captain of the Veteran Reserve Corps, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of West Point, Virginia, May 8, 1862, to date from March 13, 1865
173. John J. McCook, late captain and aide-de-camp, for gallant and meritorious services in action at Shady Grove, Va., May 30, 1864, to date from March 13, 1865.
174. John W. Babbitt, late lieutenant-colonel of the Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Spottsylvania Va., to date from March 13, 1865.
175. John H. Taggart, late colonel of the Twelfth Regiment Reserves, for gallant and meritorious services in the Peninsular campaign in 1862, to date from March 13, 1865.
176. Brevet Colonel Leopold Blumenberg, late major in the Fifth Maryland Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
177. Robert L. McCook, late colonel of the Ninth Ohio Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services, to date from August 5, 1862, when mortally wounded by guerrillas.
178. Daniel McCook, late brigadier-general of Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in action at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., where mortally wounded, to date from July 17, 1864.
179. Brevet Brigadier-General Robert L. McCook, late colonel of the Ninth Ohio Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services, to date from August 5, 1862, when mortally wounded by guerrillas.
180. Capt. Philip R. Fendall, of the Marine Corps, to be a brevet major in said corps, for gallant and meritorious services at Port Royal, Hatteras Inlet, and Sewall's Point, during the war of the rebellion.
181. First Lieut. George B. Haycock, Marine Corps, to be a brevet captain in said corps, for gallant and meritorious services in aiding the defeat of a rebel raid at Gunpowder Bridge, which threatened the ferries at Havre de Grace and the borders of Pennsylvania.
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Arizona.
182. Bvt. Lieut. Col. Julius W. Mason, captain, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Muchos Canyons, Arizona Territory, to date from September 25, 1872.
183. Bvt. Lieut. Col. William H. Brown, captain, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the closing campaign against the Tonto Apache Indians in Arizona Territory, to date from April 9, 1873.
184. Bvt. Maj. William H. Brown, captain, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at The Caves, Arizona Territory, to date from December 28, 1872.
185. Bvt. Maj. George M. Randal, captain, Twenty-third Infantry, for gallant conduct at Turret Mountain, Arizona Territory, to date from March 27, 1873.
186. Bvt. Maj. James Burns, captain, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the closing campaign against the Apache Mojave Indians in Arizona Territory, to date from July 15, 1873.
187. Bvt. Maj. John B. Babcock, first lieutenant, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Tonto Creek, Arizona Territory, to date from June 16, 1873.
188. Capt. Thomas McGregor, First Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Santa Maria Mountain, Arizona Territory, to date from May 6, 1873.
189. Capt. Camillo C. C. Carr, First Cavalry, for gallant conduct against the Apache Indians on the Verde River, Arizona Territory, to date from January 1, 1873.
190. Capt. Emil Adam, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Muchos Canyons, Arizona Territory, to date from September 25, 1872.
191. Capt. John M. Hamilton, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the closing campaign against the Tonto Apache Indians in Arizona Territory, to date from April 9, 1873.
192. Capt. Alfred B. Taylor, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at The Caves, Arizona Territory, to date from December 28, 1872.
193. Capt. Robert H. Montgomery, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Muchos Canyons, Arizona Territory, to date from September 25, 1872.
194. Capt. James Burns, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at The Caves, Arizona Territory, to date from December 28, 1872.
195. Capt. George F. Price, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the campaign against the Apache Indians in the Tonto Basin, Arizona Territory, to date from January 1, 1873.
196. Capt. Azor H. Nickerson, Twenty-third Infantry, for gallant conduct at Sycamore Canyon, Arizona Territory, to date from May 23, 1872.
197. First Lieut. Max Wesenorff, First Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Squaw Peak, Arizona Territory, to date from September 30, 1872.
198. First Lieut. Alexander Grant, First Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the campaign against the Apache Indians, to date from December 31, 1872.
199. First Lieut. Thomas Garvey, First Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Gum Creek, Arizona Territory, to date from December 11, 1872.
200. First Lieut. Albert E. Woodson, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the campaign against the Apache Indians in the Red Rock country, Arizona Territory, to date from December 31, 1872.
201. First Lieut. Alfred B. Bache, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Muchos Canyons, Arizona Territory, to date from September 31, 1872
202. First Lieut. Jacob Almy, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at The Caves, Arizona Territory, to date from December 12, 1872.
203. First Lieut. Earl D. Thomas, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at he Caves, Arizona Territory, to date from December 28, 1872.
204. First Lieut. Charles H. Rockwell, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the closing campaign against the Tonto Apache Indians in Arizona Territory, to date from April 9, 1873.
205. First Lieut. William H. Boyle, Twenty-First Infantry, for gallant conduct at Sycamore Canyon, Arizona Territory, to date from May May 23, 1872.
206. First Lieut. Edward R. Theller, Twenty-first Infantry, for gallant conduct at the Cinega de los Pinos, Arizona Territory, to date from July 13, 1871.
207. First Lieut. William C. Manning, Twenty-third Infantry, for gallant conduct at Mazatzal Mountain, Arizona Territory, to date from December 13, 1872.
208. First Lieut. William F. Rice, Twenty-third Infantry, for gallant conduct at Clear Creek, Arizona Territory, to date from January 2, 1873.
209. Bvt. First Lieut. John G. Bourke, second lieutenant, Third Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the closing campaign against the Tonto Apache Indians in Arizona territory, to date from April 9, 1873.
210. Bvt. First Lieut. Walter S. Schuyler, second lieutenant, Sixth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Lost River, Arizona Territory, to date from June 26, 1873.
211. Bvt. First Lieut. Frank Michler, second lieutenant, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Head of Tonto Creek, Arizona Territory, to date from January 22, 1873.
212. Bvt. First Lieut. William J. Ross, second lieutenant, Twenty-first Infantry, for gallant conduct in the closing campaign against the Tonto Apache Indians in Arizona Territory, to date from April 9, 1873.
213. Second Lieut. Alexander O. Brodie, First Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Diamond Butte, Arizona Territory, to date from April 22, 1873.
214. Second Lieut. Peter S. Borons, First Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Mazatzal Mountain, Arizona Territory, to date from December 13, 1872.
215. Second Lieut. Otto L. Hein, First Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the campaign against the Apache Indians on the Verde River, Arizona Territory, to date from January 1, 1873.
216. Second Lieut. John G. Bourke, Third Cavalry, for gallant conduct at The Caves, Arizona Territory, to date from December 28, 1872.
217. Second Lieut. Charles Morton, Third Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the campaign against the Apache Indians in the Tonto country, in the Territory of Arizona, to date from June, 1871.
218. Second Lieut. Walter S. Schuyler, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Muchos Canyons, Arizona Territory, to date from September 25, 1872.
219. Second Lieut. Frank Michler, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct at Muchos Canyons, Arizona Territory, to date from September 25, 1872.
220. Second Lieut. Charles D. Parkhurst, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the campaign against the Apache Indians in the Tonto Basin, Arizona Territory, to date from January 1, 1873.
221. Second Lieut. Charles A. Watts, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the closing campaign against the Tonto Apache Indians in Arizona Territory, to date from April 9, 1873.
222. Second Lieut. Edward L. Keyes, Fifth Cavalry, for gallant conduct in the closing campaign against the Tonto Apache Indians in Arizona Territory, to date from April 9, 1873.
223. Second Lieut. William J. Ross, Twenty-first Infantry, for gallant conduct at The Caves, Arizona Territory, to date from December 28, 1872.
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Modoc War.
224. Bvt. Lieut. Col. John Green, major, First Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and during the whole Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
225. Bvt. Lieut. Col. Marcus P. Miller, captain, Fourth Artillery, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and during the whole Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
To be lieutenant-colonels by brevet.
226. Bvt. Maj. James Jackson, captain, First Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Lost River, Oregon, and during the whole of the Modoc war, to date from November 29, 1872.
227. Bvt. Maj. Charles C. Cresson, first lieutenant, First Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and during the Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
228. Capt. Henry C. Hasbrouck, Fourth Artillery, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Sorass Lake, California, and in the Modoc war, to date from May 10, 1873.
229. Capt. George H. Burton, Twenty-first Infantry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and in the Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
230. First Lieut. Henry N. Moss, First Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and during the Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
231. First Lieut. Peter Leary, jr., Fourth Artillery, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and in the Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
232. First Lieut. Charles P. Eagan, Twelfth Infantry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and in the Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
233. First Lieut. John M. Ross, Twenty-first Infantry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and in the Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
234. Second Lieut. Frazier A. Boutelle, First Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at Lost River, Oregon, and during the Modoc war, to date from November 29, 1872.
235. Second Lieut. George R. Bacon, First Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and during the Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
236. Second Lieut. John G. Kyle, First Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and during the Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
237. Second Lieut. William H. Miller, First Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and during the Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
238. Second Lieut. Sydney W. Taylor, Fourth Artillery, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and in the Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
239. Second Lieut. Edward S. Chapin, Fourth Artillery, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and in the Modoc war, to date from from April 17, 1873.
240. Second Lieut. Harry De W. Moore, Twenty-first Infantry, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the lava beds and in the Modoc war, to date from April 17, 1873.
Civil War.
241. Second Lieutenant Thomas H. Bradley, of the Eleventh Regiment United States Infantry, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
242. Second Lieutenant Henry W. Smith, of the Third Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct during the war, to date from August 9, 1867.
243. Second Lieutenant James F. Simpson, of the Fortieth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of the Wilderness, Va., to date from August 17, 1867.
244. Second Lieutenant George F. Foote, of the Ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Jonesboro', Georgia, to date from March 2, 1867.
245. Second Lieutenant Joseph H. Hurst, of the Twelfth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, to date from March 7, 1867.
246. Second Lieutenant Lucius S. Windle, of the Nineteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Jonesboron', Georgia, to date from March 7, 1867.
247. Brevet First Lieutenant Thomas H. Bradley, second lieutenant in the Eleventh Regiment United States Infantry, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to (late from March 2, 1867.
248. Brevet First Lieutenant Henry W. Smith, second lieutenant in the Third Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct during the war, to date from August 9, 1867.
249. First Lieutenant Edward Simonton, of the Fourth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Petersburg, Va., to date from March 2, 1867.
250. First Lieutenant Archibald Boyle, of the Thirty-ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Olustee, Florida, to date from May 21, 1867.
251. Brevet First Lieutenaut James F. Simpson, second lieutenant in the Fortieth Regiment United States infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Ream's Station, Va., to date from August 17, 1867.
252. Brevet First Lieutenant George F. Foote, second lieutenant in the Ninth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Bentonville, North Carolina, to date from March 2, 1867.
253. First Lieutenant Daniel D. Wheeler, of the First Regiment United States Artillery, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles of Salem Heights and Cool Arbor, Virginia, to date from March 2, 1867.
254. Brevet First Lieutenant Robert G. Rutherford, second lieutenant in the Forty-fifth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 7, 1867.
255. Brevet First Lieutenant Joseph H. Hurst, second lieutenant in the Twelfth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Spottsylvania, Virginia, to date from March 7, 1867.
256. First Lieutenant Henry J. Farnsworth, of the Thirty-fourth Regiment United States Infantry, for faithful and efficient services during the war, to date from June 14, 1867.
257. First Lieutenant Phineas Stevens, of the Thirty-fifth Regiment United States infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
258. First Lieutenant William H. King, of the Tenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, May, 1862, to date from March 2, 1867.
259. First Lieutenant Alexander S. B. Keyes, of the Thirtieth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
260. Brevet Captain Samuel S. Culbertson, first lieutenant in the Nineteenth Regiment, United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from April 2, 1865.
261. Captain Lewis Merrill, of the Second Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services against the rebel forces in North Missouri, to date from September 10, 1862.
262. Brevet Major Lewis Merrill, captain in the Second Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services in the capture of Little Rock, Ark., to date from September 10, 1863.
263. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Merrill, captain in the Second Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services against the rebel forces in Northwest Georgia, under the command of the rebel General Wofford, and which terminated in his surrender, to date from March 5, 1865.
264. James W. Abert, late major in the Corps of Engineers United States Army, for faithful and meritorious services in the valley of the Shenandoah, from June, 1861, to September, 1862, to date from June 25, 1864.
265. Brevet Captain Henry W. Smith, second lieutenaut in the Third Regiment United States Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious conduct during the war, to date from August 9, 1867.
266. Captain Jacob H. Smith, of the Thirteenth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant conduct at the battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6, 1862, to date from March 7, 1867.
267. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Shea, captain in the Forty-fourth Regiment United States Infantry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 2, 1867.
268. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph C. Clark, jr., captain United States Army, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
269. Even M. Woodward, late first lieutenant and adjutant of the Second Pennsylvania Veteran Reserve Corps, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, to date from March 13, 1865.
270. Ira B. Gardner, late captain of the Fourteenth Maine Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to date from March 13, 1865.
271. Joseph Demsey, late captain of the One hundred and forty-seventh New York Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia, February 6, 1865, to date from March 13, 1865.
272. Brevet Major Ira B. Gardner, late captain of the Fourteenth Main Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Winchester, Virginia, to date from March 13, 1865.
273. Edward H. R. Revere, late surgeon of the Twentieth Massachusett Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Antietam, Md., where killed, to date from September 17, 1862.
274. William M. McArthur, late colonel of the Eighth Maine Volunteer, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Drury's Bluff, May 14, 1864, and in the action of Williamsburg Road, October 27, 1864, to date from March 13, 1865.
275. Paul Joseph Revere, late colonel of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Gettysburg Pa., where mortally wounded, to date from July 2, 1863.
276. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel A. B. Sharpe, late captain and aide-de-camp, for gallant conduct at Vicksburg and Petersburg, and in the various affairs before Richmond, Virginia, to date from March 13, 1865.
277. Brevet Colonel Edward F. Schneider, late lieutenant-colonel of the Eighth Kansas Volunteers, for meritorious services in the field, to date from March 13, 1865.
278. Brevet Colonel Mark Flannigan, late lieutenant-colonel of the Twenty-fourth Michigan Volunteers, for meritorious conduct in the campaign of Gettysburg, and for services in that engagement, to date from March 13, 1865.
279. A. B. Sharpe, late captain and aide-de-camp, for gallant conduct at Vicksburg and Petersburg, and in the various affairs before Richmond, Va., to date from March 13, 1865.
280. Brevet Major A. B. Sharpe, late captain and aide-de-camp, for gallant conduct at Vicksburg and Petersburg, and in the various affairs before Richmond, Va., to date from March 13, 1865.
281. Brevet Major Lemuel B. Norton, late captain of the Signal Corps, for faithful and meritorious services in the campaign against Richmond, Va., to date from March 13, 1865.
282. Milton Sagendorph, late first lieutenant of the Thirty-first Massachusetts Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at Port Hudson, Sabine Crossroads, Moore's Plantation, Pinewood, Yellow Bayou, Louisiana, and on the Mobile campaign, to date from March 13, 1865.
283. Sylvester B. Bond, late first lieutenant of the Thirty-first Massachusetts Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at Sabine Crossroads, Moore's Plantation, Pinewood, Yellow Bayou, Louisiana, and on the Mobile campaign, to date from March 13, 1865.
284. Albert M. Lee, late first lieutenant of the Thirty-first Massachusetts Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at Port Hudson and on the Mobile campaign, to date from March 13, 1865.
285. Albert M. Lee, late first lieutenant of the Thirty-first Massachusetts Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at Port Hudson and on the Mobile campaign, to date from March 13, 1865.
286. First Lieutenant Charles Drayton, of the Thirty-seventh Regiment United States Colored Troops, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
287. First Lieutenant James J. Sullivan, of the Thirty-seventh Regiment United States Colored Troops, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
288. First Lieutenant Samuel D. Edgar, of the Thirty-seventh Regiment United States Colored Troops, for faithful and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
289. John Allen, late first lieutenant of the Fifth Michigan Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, especially at the battle of Winchester, Virginia, to date from March 13, 1865.
290. John O. Foering, late first lieutenant of the Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services at the battles of Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chattanooga, and through the marches in Georgia and the Carolinas, to the close of the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
291. First Lieutenant Andrew Coats, of the Veteran Reserve Corps, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Bull Run (second), Virginia, to date from March 13, 1865.
292. Brevet Brigadier-General Isaac S. Catlin, late colonel of the One hundred and ninth New York Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in the battles before Petersburg, Virginia, to date from March 13, 1865.
293. Brevet Brigadier General James J. Byrne, late colonel of the Eighteenth New York Cavalry, for gallantry at the battle of Moore's Plantation, 5th and 6th of May, and the battle of Yellow Bayou, 18th of May, 1864, and for meritorious conduct during the retreat of the Army of the Gulf from Alexandria to Simmsport, Louisiana, to date from March 13, 1865.
294. John P. Mitchell, late brigadier-general of Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, especially at the battles of Averysboro' and Bentonville, North Carolina, to date from March 13, 1865.
295. William H. Morris, late brigadier-general of Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia, to date from March 13, 1865.
296. Thornton F. Brodhead, late colonel of the First Michigan Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services at the battle of Bull Run (second), when he was mortally wounded, to date from August 30, 1862.
297. Brevet Brigadier-General A. A. Goodell, late lieutenant-colonel of the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the campaign in East Tennessee, to date from March 13, 1865.
298. G. W. Gallup, late colonel of the Fourteenth Kentucky Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
299. William B. Curtiss, late colonel of the Twelfth West Virginia Volunteers, for gallant and meritorious services in the capture of Fort Gregg, and for faithful and efficient services during the war, to date from March 13, 1865.
300. Brevet Colonel John S. Witcher, late lieutenant-colonel of the Third West Virginia Cavalry, for gallant and meritorious services during the Shenandoah campaign of 1864, and in the final campaign around Richmond and Petersburg in the spring of 1865, to date from March 13, 1865.
Navy Department, Confederate States of America.
301. Admiral, Franklin Buchanan, of Maryland, a captain in the Navy of the Confederate States, for gallant and meritorious conduct in attacking the enemy's fleet in Hampton Roads, and destroying the frigate Congress, sloop of war Cumberland, and three small steamers, whilst in command of the squadron in the waters of Virginia, on the 8th of March, 1862.
302. Captain, Capt. Franklin Buchanan, promoted, for gallant and meritorious conduct in capturing and destroying the enemy's commerce on the high seas, whilst in command of the steamer Sumter.
303. Commander, Isaac N. Brown, of Mississippi, a lieutenant in the Navy, vice Commander Raphael Semmes, promoted, for gallant and meritorious conduct in successfully engaging the enemy's fleet on the Mississippi River before the city of Vicksburg, whilst in command of the ironclad steamer Arkansas, on the 15th of July, 1862.
304. John N. Maffitt, of North Carolina, a first lieutenant in the Navy, to be promoted for gallant and meritorious conduct in command of the steam sloop Florida, in running the blockade in and out of the port of Mobile, against an overwhelming force of the enemy, and under his fire; and since, in actively cruising against and destroying the enemy's commerce.
305. Joseph N. Barney, of Maryland, first lieutenant in the Navy, to be promoted for gallant and meritorious conduct in command of the steam sloop Jamestown, in the action in Hampton Roads on the 8th day of March, 1862, and in the action at Drewry's Bluff on the 15th of May, 1862.
306. Catesby ap R. Jones, of Virginia, a first lieutenant in the Navy, to be promoted for gallant and meritorious conduct as executive and ordnance officer of the steamer Virginia, in the action in Hampton Roads on the 8th of March, 1862, and in the action at Drewry's Bluff on the 15th of May, 1862.
307. Rear-admiral, Capt. Raphael Semmes, of Alabama, "for gallant and meritorious conduct in command of the steam sloop Alabama."
308. Captain, Commander John Taylor Wood, of Louisiana, "for gallant and meritorious conduct in command of the naval expedition which, on the night of the 1st of February, 1864, cut out from under the guns of the enemy, at Newbern, N. C., the Federal gunboat Underwriter, and destroyed her; and in command of the steam sloop Tallahassee, in a cruise against the enemy's commerce, in August, 1864, in which he captured 33 of the enemy's vessels, destroyed 26 of them and bonded and released 7."
309. Commander, First Lieut. Benjamin P. Loyall, of Virginia, "for gallant and meritorious conduct as second in command and executive officer of the naval expedition which, on the night of the 1st of February, 1864, cut out from under the guns of the enemy, at Newbern, N. C., the Federal gunboat Underwriter, and destroyed her."
310. Commander, First Lieut. John McI. Kell, of Georgia, for gallant and meritorious conduct as first lieutenant and executive officer of the Confederate States steam sloops Sumter and Alabama, to rank from the 4th day of October, 1863.
311. Captain, Commander James W. Cooke, of North Carolina, for gallant and meritorious conduct in command of the ironclad steam sloop Albemarle on the 19th, 20th, and 21st of April, 1864, in attacking the enemy's ships and batteries, and in cooperation with the army in the capture of the town of Plymouth, N. C., and in the action of the 5th of May, 1864, between the sloop Albemarle under his command and nine of the enemy's gunboats in Albemarle Sound.
312. Commander, First Lieut. Hunter Davidson, of Virginia, for gallant and meritorious conduct in command of the torpedo boat Squib in passing through the enemy's fleet off Newport News on the night of the 9th of April, 1864, and attacking the steam frigate Minnesota.
313. Chief engineer, First Asst. Engineer Henry X. Wright, of Virginia, for gallant and meritorious conduct as the engineer officer of the torpedo steamer Squib in the attack upon the Minnesota on the night of the 9th of April, 1864, under the command of Lieut. Hunter Davidson.
314. Commander, First Lieut. Joseph Price, of North Carolina, to be promoted for gallant and meritorious conduct in the capture of the enemy's steam sloop Water Witch, in Ossabaw Sound, on the 3d of June, 1864, to rank from the 12th day of July, 1864.
315. Commander, First Lieut. John Taylor Wood, of Louisiana, to be promoted for "gallant and meritorious conduct in boarding and capturing with an expedition under his command, on the Rappahannock River on the 23d day of August, 1863, the United States gunboats Satellite and Reliance, mounting two guns each," and to rank from the 23d day of August, 1863.
316. Second Lieut. Francis L. Hoge, of Virginia, to be promoted for "gallant and meritorious conduct in the capture of the United States gunboats Satellite and Reliance, on the Rappahannock River on the 23d day of August, 1863, by the expedition under the command of Lieut. John Taylor Wood," and to rank from the 23d day of August, 1863.
317. Second lieutenants, Acting Midshipmen Joseph M. Gardner and Matthew P. Goodwyn, of Virginia, to be promoted for "gallant and meritorious conduct in the capture of the United States gunboats Satellite and Reliance, on the Rappahannock River on the 23d day of August, 1863, by the expedition under the command of Lieut. John Taylor Wood," to rank from the 22d day September, 1863.
318. Commander, First Lieut. William T. Glassell, Alabama, to be promoted for "gallant and meritorious conduct in attempting the destruction of the United States ironclad frigate New Ironsides by torpedo in the harbor of Charleston on the night of the 5th of October, 1863," and to rank from that date.
319. Chief engineer, Acting First Asst. Engineer James H. Tomb, of Florida, to be promoted for "gallant and meritorious conduct in the expedition to attempt the destruction of the United States ironclad frigate New Ironsides in the harbor of Charleston on the night of the 5th of October, 1863, under the command of Lieut. W. T. Glassell," and to rank from that date.
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Union-Mexico.
320. Captain W. J. Hardee, Second Dragoons, to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the affair at Madellin, Mexico, be changed to the 25th of March, 1847, the day on which the action occurred.
321. Captain W. J. Hardee, 2d Dragoons, has been promoted to be major by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the affair at Madellin, Mexico, to date from the 26th of March, 1847. As this affair took place on the 25th of that month, I respectfully recommend that the Senate be asked to change the date of Captain Hardee's brevet ranks so as to correspond with the date of the action, to wit, the 25th of March, 1847. Brevets which have been conferred upon other officers in the same affair take the latter date
322. Brigadier-General Stephen W. Kearny to be major-general by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in New Mexico and in California, to date from the battle of San Pasqual, the 6th of December, 1846.
323. First Lieutenant Daniel J. Sutherland, of the Marine Corps, to be captain by brevet for gallant and meritorious conduct in the assault upon the City of Mexico, to date from the 14th September, 1847.
Promotions in the Army, by brevet, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the several affairs at Monterey, in Mexico, on the 21st, 22d, and 23d of September, 1846
324. Captain Joseph R. F. Mansfield, of the Corps of Engineers, major by brevet, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
325. Captain John J. Abercrombie, of the 1st Regiment of Infantry, major by brevet, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet, to rank from the 23d of of September, 1846.
326. Captain Charles F. Smith, of the 2d Regiment of Artillery, now before the Senate for major by brevet for the actions of the 8th and 9th of May last, to be lieutenant-colonel by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
327. Captain John R. Vinton, of the 3d Regiment of Artillery, to be major by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
328. Captain Lucien B. Webster, of the 1st Regiment of Artillery, to be major by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
329. Captain Albert S. Miller, of the 1st Regiment of Infantry, to be major by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
330. Captain Electus Backus, of the 1st Regiment of Infantry, to be major by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
331. Captain Joseph H. Lamotte, of the 1st Regiment of Infantry, to be major by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
332. Captain John Saunders, of the Corps of Engineers, to be major by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
333. Captain Braxton Bragg, of the 3d Regiment of Artillery, to be major by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
334. Captain John M. Scott, of the 1st Regiment of Infantry, to be major by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
335. Captain Joseph H. Eaton, of the 3d Regiment of Infantry, to be major by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846
336. First Lieutenant John F. Rowland, of the 2d Regiment of Artillery, to be captain by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
337. First Lieutenant James L. Donaldson, of the 1st Regiment of Artillery, to be captain by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
338. First Lieutenant Joseph Hooker, of the 1st Regiment of Artillery, to be captain by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
339. First Lieutenant William H. Shover, of the 3d Regiment of Artillery, to be captain by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
340. First Lieutenant Jeremiah M. Scanitt, of the Corps of Engineers, to be captain by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
341. First Lieutenant John C. Pemberton, of the 4th Regiment of Artillery, to be captain by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
342. First Lieutenant George H. Thomas, of the 3d Regiment of Artillery, to be captain by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
343. First Lieutenant William A. Nichols, of the 2d Regiment of Artillery, to be captain by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
344. First Lieutenant George W. Ayers, of the 3d Regiment of Artillery, to be captain by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
345. First Lieutenant Robert S. Garnett, of the 4th Regiment of Artillery, to be captain by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
346.Second Lieutenant George Meade, of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, to be first lieutenant by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
347. Second Lieutenant Isaac Bowen, of the 1st Regiment of Artillery, to be first lieutenant by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
348. Second Lieutenant George W. Lay, of the 6th Regiment of Infantry, to be first lieutenant by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
349. Second Lieutenant Franklin Gardner, of the 7th Regiment of Infantry, to be first lieutenant by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846.
350.Second Lieutenant Lafayette B. Wood, of the 8th Regiment of Infantry, to be first lieutenant by brevet, to rank from the 23d of September, 1846
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
"Woman In My Prison ?, I Don't Think So."
When one hears the words ( Prisoner of War ) a picture of soldiers and sailors comes to mind, farthest from are mind is the women, who fought in many ways just as hard as any man, but in different ways. They faced the same hardships as any man, and the price these women paid was no less then any other man would pay. Some women who played in the warring game thought being the softer side of humanity their punishment if caught would be less severe, be course they were the softer side. However they soon learned the harsh realities of war. Women who went to war would caused many problems for both army’s, for warring was for men and not women, but there was no way around it, a spy is a spy, no matter what the sex that was. How that they were captured what to with them. Neither side had made plans for women prisoners and after all warring was a mans game, but the army’s soon learned there was no way around it the women were going to fight.
The army’s now had a problem their prisons were made to hold men sometimes up to 30, thousand. Neither side wanted to put 10, women in with 30, thousand men that would cause more problems then if they hadn’t been caught. The higher commands said they would have to make do. The prison Officers for both sides told their governments for the need of new prisons and both agreed, but asked “where is the money coming from?, if you can find it, will build them.” Some prisons made room by dividing one room into two and putting up to ten women in one room that should only hold three. Because of these close quarters some soon became sick from the air and sanitary needs, and had to be taken to a hospital. Women were moved to city jails, wear houses and any place that could be guarded well. History will state that this war was won for this reason or that reason, but if the truth be known, it was won in part by the stronger sex the woman.
Note. This information will come from the official recorders of the Union and Confederate Armies which is housed at the State University of Ohio.
Note. Not only will there be information of the women in prison but a few report on what the conditions were.
U. S. GENERAL PRISON HOSPITAL,
Saint Louis, Mo., August 20, 1864.
Colonel J. P. SANDERSON,
Provost-Marshal-General Department of the Missouri:
COLONEL: I have the honor to state that there are now held in custody ten female prisoners in one room in Myrtle Street Prison. The room does not contain more than 2,400 cubic feet of air, which is barely sufficient for three persons. If allowed to remain in these quarters sickness will doubtless be one of the results. Illness to a certain extent has already occurred. We would respectfully ask instructions as to what course we must pursue. Shall we treat the cases as they occur in the quarters they now occupy or remove them to hospital?
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. M. YOUNGBLOOD,
Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army, Acting Surgeon in Charge.
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OFFICE INSPECTOR OF PRISONS,
Saint Louis, August 21, 1864.
Respectfully returned, with the suggestion that these female prisoners be removed to Gratiot Street Prison. I have had the honor before of explaining to the colonel the propriety of removing these women from Myrtle Street Prison, as the localities there are in no way the proper ones for that class of prisoners. The so-called lower round room at Gratiot Street Prison seems to be the proper place. It is a large and airy room, and perfectly isolated from the other rooms. One female prisoner is there now, and in one room with a man (the counterfeiter who was ordered to be kept single), and as this prison has no proper room for this purpose, I respectfully recommend that this lower round room be divided into two rooms by a partition, which would make good rooms for both purposes. The female sick may be accommodated in the branch hospital, which is right opposite, and where there is plenty of suitable room. I sincerely believe that this change would be of a great advantage and meet all the desirable points.
GUST. HEINRICHS,
Major and Inspector.
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HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,
Columbus, Ohio, April 23, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary - General of Prisoners:
The Governor of Ohio has in some instances granted paroles to rebel prisoners where in consequence of sickness it has been necessary to remove them from the prison. Yesterday he desired me to request that authority be vested in me to grant paroles in cases of this kind. He also suggested the propriety of paroling the female prisoners now here to the limits of this city. There are at present five female prisoners confined here, there being no suitable accommodations at Camp Chase. They were removed to the second story a house in the city, placed in the immediate charge of a loyal female, strictly guarded and subjected to all the regulations established by you for government of prisons. The house occupied was already in charge of the quartermaster and not renter for the purpose.
your letter of the 20th has been received and your instructions with reference carried into effect, Captain Webber, of the Governor's Guards, being commandant of prisons.
Your obedient servant, JNO S. MASON, Brigadier - General, Commanding.
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Colonel J. P. SANDERSON,
Provost-Marshal-General, Saint Louis, Mo.:
COLONEL: Respectfully referring to the above notes, your will see that our prisons continue to be in good order. I do, in fact, believe they are improving every day, notwithstanding the inefficiency of the buildings. I have also inspected the new female prison, situated opposite Gratiot Street Prison, and find it a very suitable place, provided that these female prisoners be properly classified according to their character. I have the honor, colonel, to suggest the prostitutes be transferred to the work-house of the city, because they are certainly a nuisance in or near a military prison, and it is, furthermore, a very simple matter to settle for their keeping with the city authorities.
I remain, sir, your obedient servant, GUST. HEINRICHS, Major and Inspector.
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MILITARY PRISON, Alton, Ill., July 26, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners:
Two of the female prisoners, Mrs. Nicholson and Mrs. Hyde, were released to-day, the former by an order form Brigadier-General Hurlbut, commanding at Memphis, Tenn., remitting unexpired sentence, and the letter by parole to Nashville, Tenn., by order of General Rosecrans.
I have the honor to be, sir, with much respect, your most obedient servant,
T. HENDRICKSON, Major, U. S. Army, Commandant of Prison.
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OFFICE COMMISSARY - GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., May 2, 1863.
Major JOSEPH DARR, Jr.,
MAJOR: Please deliver to the provost - marshal in this city Mary J. Green and Maria Murphy, of Braxton County, and Jennie De Hart, female prisoners now in your custody charged with disloyal offenses. If there are any charges of disloyalty against Marian McKenzie or Mary Jane Prater you will send them also. Wearing soldier's clothes in camp is not an offense for which they can be sent South and if that is all that is against them they must be disposed of in some other way. Elizabeth Hays and Mary Summers are very hard cases and will have to remain on your hands until you see a good opening to dispose of them which I hope will soon present itself.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
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ALTON MILITARY PRISON, Alton, Ill., February 16, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
COLONEL: On the night of the 23rd of January last a Mrs. Clara Judd, a female prisoner, was brought to this prison in company with several male prisoners, all of whom were easily provided for except the female. I did not know what to do with her as there were no rooms about the building where cooking could be done without a great expense, as I myself with several other officers am boarding at these headquarter buildings and have her boarded at $2 per week. But I do not feel justified to continue such board without advising you of the fact and ask you to approve or disapprove of said board of Mrs. Judd. Mrs. Judd was arrested and sent to this prison as a spy by order of General Rosecrans. She has never had any trial but is held in this prison as a spy. Please let me know what I shall do in regard to her board. She resides near Winchester, Tenn.
Added info. Provost-Marshal-General, Fourteenth Army Corps.
SIR: The following is the substance of the testimony elicited in the case of Mrs. Clara Judd, arrested by the army police on charge of attempting to carry through the lines articles contraband of war such as quinine, morphine, nitrate of silver, besides other goods, and one knitting-machine carried as a pattern, which articles, were found and have been purchased by her and brought within these army lines upon a pass obtained under false pretenses.
Mrs. Judd is the widow of an Episcopal clergyman who resides in Winchester, Tenn. He died some two years since leaving a large family of some seven children. Mrs. Judd passed through our lines with permission to take her three youngest children to Minnesota, from whence the family originally came. She took them, leaving them with a sister, she herself returning and passing through our lines to the rebel army. One of her oldest boys had found employment in the rebel establishment at Atlanta, Ga. During her absence her premises were seized on by the Confederates and her children remaining were taken by this young man to Atlanta.
In the autumn of 1862 she returned to Winchester, went thence to Atlanta claims to have received some $500 Southern funds of her son, which she exchanged for money current in the North. She also received funds from persons who desired her to purchase articles from the North for them. Having thus provided herself she came through our lines and was, under her representations that she wished to go to her children in Minnesota, granted a pass North. She states that from conversation of officers of the Confederate service whom she met on the cars going from Atlanta to Murfreesborough she learned I was the intention of John Morgan to strike at our railroad communications near Gallating at a certain time.
She found a traveling companion in the person of a Mr. Forsythe northward. She went as far as Louisville and Jeffersonville or New Albany, procuring the goods specified, returned on a pass to Gallatin. She states that her intention was to stop at Gallatin and set up the knitting-machine and manufacture stockings, &c., for a living, her object in doing so being that she would be near her children in Atlanta; that her living would be cheaper than in Nashville; that she supposed it would be lawful for her to hold her goods in expectation that the enemy would occupy the country and that she would then fall into their lines. It appears that she was tolerably well informed because about the time she expected it Morgan did make an attempt on Gallatin and shortly after broke the road above there.
It is respectfully submitted that she is a dangerous person to remain in these lines; that she is probably a spy as well as smuggler; that cases of this kind being of frequent occurrence by females examples should be made, and that as there is at present no proper tribunal for her especial trial or proper place of imprisonment at Nashville, she be committed to the military prison at Alton in the State of Illinois, for trial. It is well to state further that Mrs. Judd represents her son at Atlanta to be a very ingenious mechanic and that it was her intention to furnish him with the knitting-machine for the purpose of manufacturing others from it taken as a pattern.
Very respectfully, U. S. MILITARY PRISON.
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Alton, Ill., May 11, 1863.
Statement of Mrs. Clara Judd, who has been a prisoner in Alton Military Prison over three months as a spy.
She denies being guilty. Her health is failing very fast (having been in feeble health for several years) from confinement. She wishes to be paroled and go to her parents and little children who are living in Minnesota. She makes a statement here how she came in the south and how she came to be arrested:
"I am the widow of the Rev. B. S. Judd and a native of the State of New York. My parents live in Minnesota where I also resided with my husband seven years prior to going South. We moved to Winchester in November, 1859, on account of my health and on account of there being a chance of educating our children and board them at home and keep them under home influences. We had eight children. Six of them were going to school in 1861, when my husband went to Nashville on business and while there he went to view some statuary at the capitol; accidentally stepped off the parterre and was injured so that he died in just four weeks, leaving me with seven children (one having died in the fall) without money, with a great deal of unfinished business and not a relative or Northern person that I ever saw two years before. My friends in the North wrote to have me come home, but I had taken out letters of administration and had no means and the blockade soon closed all communication. I struggled on with my children's help who went to work at anything they could get to do until Christmas, 1862. I was censured very much because I did not put my oldest children, being boys, into the army. I could not think it my duty to let them go on either side my health being so poor and I liable to die at any time with heart disease. I thought they ought to preserve their lives to take care of those younger. At Christmas I put two of them into a Government factory to keep them from being conscripted. The factory was removed to Atlanta, Ga., in May. I was here and in the meantime I had sent the next oldest into the same business. I could not hear from them or from the North and I had no means to support my four remaining children but what I could to myself. Winchester was taken possession of five different times by the Federals. I always treated them as brothers; had a house full every time they were there. (I never had a Confederate soldier in my house.) The 1st of August Thomas took possession of the town. Among his troops I had many acquaintances who told me they were going to destroy all of the crops except enough to last six weeks. They advised me to get my little children to my parents in the North. I could not stay to dispose of anything. I had three cows and seven acres of crops and my household goods and husband's library. I got a protection from provost-marshal for my things and a little boy twelve years old; borrowed money and took my three youngest children out on the second train through from Decherd to Nashville. I was to be gone four weeks. I arrived in Minnesota on the 11th of August. Three days after I got there I had to take my children and flee from the Indians, which detained me three or four weeks instead of two. I then started with money enough as I supposed to take me to Nashville. I intended to go back and dispose of my effects if possible and get my boys out and go to Nevada Territory for two years. I had made arrangements for my sister to take care of my little children for three years, but when I arrived at Louisville they were expecting an attack from Bragg.
"I went to New Albany and was taken sick; was there six weeks. I after incredible trouble succeeded in hiring some money to pay my expenses and take me to Nashville where I was acquainted with the clergy and would get help there. I started but could not get my trunks through farther than Mitchellville. I was very deficient in clothing myself. I thought I would go to [Louisville] and get me some funds and come back to New Albany and pay the borrowed money and get a few clothes for myself and a hand knitting-machine which I had been talking of getting for several years. I accordingly did so. Told the offices at Nashville my whole business and tried to get a pass to go and come back, but could not get one to come back. When I got to Winchester I found everything destroyed except my husband's library and the son I left gone to the same business the others were at and that I could not get my sons out. When I left I supposed Buell would keep the country. I came back and was detained at Murfreesborough three days in trying to get a pass. When I got one I could not get any conveyance but walked eleven miles after 10 o'clock, the last three miles in my stocking feet, having blistered my feet the first three miles. I got a carriage at La Vergne to take me to where the flag officers were, as there was a flag that day. Just before I got there came a carriage from Murfreesborough bringing a gentleman who was said to be a prisoner of the South. The Federal officers would not let me through until they had been to headquarters. I wrote a statement to Rosecrans. While waiting there the person from Murfreesborough commenced questioning me. He told me he was from Connecticut. My husband and parents were from there. We soon seemed like old acquaintances. He wished to know where I stopped in Nashville. I told. Said he stopped there, and then said he would see Rosecrans about my pass; said he thought he had more power there than Colonel Hepburn. The second day after this the flag officer came out; told me that I could go, but would have to go under guard. I told them I would; I was perfectly willing. I had nothing but some open letters-those I sent to Rosecrans. I walked almost seven miles, my guard mounted. After giving a statement to headquarters of everything I saw while in the South I went to the same hotel where Mr. Forsythe (that is the name of the prisoner from Murfreesborough) put up. He was not there and the house was full. I went to a private house where I was slightly acquainted. The next morning I went to the provost-marshal's office and got a pass to go to Louisville. I found there was a battle near and that I would either stop in New Albany or go to a god-son's in Illinois and wait until times were settled after the battle, but when the clerk gave me my pass he said I could not go. The next day I wanted to go to Mitchellville on account of getting some clothes. I accordingly sent a note to Mr. Forsythe asking him to call wishing to have him provide me with a private conveyance to Mitchelville, he having informed me while out with the flag that he had been a merchant in Nashville for some time before he went to Murfreesborough. When he called he said he was going to Louisville the next day but one; wanted to see my pass. I finally told him my hurry to get through was mainly because I had heard about what time Morgan would interrupt that road and that I feared I would be left South which would trouble me very much on account of paying the money I had borrowed by a certain time, as the people had placed confidence in me. He said he was very glad I had told him as he had $30,000 worth of goods on the road or about to start, but wanted to know why I did to come back. I told him that at that time I feared come back told me before he was a widower; said he would like to become better acquainted with me; said Rosecrans had given him a pass to take my pass and have it changed to come back to Gallatin, where I could get to Murfreesborough after awhile. He went to headquarters and came back with the pass changed but laughed about the wording of it. He sid he would go with me in the morning and would be happy to render my any assistance I might need, and would introduce me to a merchant where I could get my things at wholesale.
"After we started in the morning I asked him how he came to have so much influence with Rosecrans. Said they were old neighbors, but after a little told me he was a Southern man as strong as any dared to be. I found I was in a close place. I could turn neither way, for the conductor would not wait for me to take my trunk aboard at Mitchellville, so that I could leave him in Louisville. He finally after we got there told me not to get anything contraband, but I told him there was nothing contraband while in the United States, and if I stopped finally urged me to buy. I told him I had no means; he offered me some money but I refused it. He then urged me to take the money I had brought to pay the debt I had contracted in New Albany. I was in debt in Winchester and thought if I had money it was a great temptation to buy and to stop in Gallatain and if Morgan took that part of the country it would help me out of debt but I did not yield at first. I went to New Albany and found the lawyer gone from home. Forsythe went with me when he found now things were. He told the gentleman in the office that I had to sacrifice a great deal of my money so that I had not got the clothing I needed and that he would vouch that I would send the money back in two or three weeks through his name to Cahill and Hues, Louisville, and gave his name and theirs in writing. Then as soon as we were in the street told me to buy drugs, and he would send me whatever I wanted in the drug line, and as soon as I could get to Atlanta he would visit me and set me up in a commission store. I supposed it was all understood between him and Rosecrans.
I need not worry about it when I bought my drugs. I traded where I had bought 50 cents worth of goods while I was boarding in town. He did not stop in the store when I traded; I wondered at it. We did not get back to Louisville till 12 at night on Saturday; the ferry-boat detained us. I had agreed to receive my knitting-machine at 7 o'clock that night; I could not get it on Sunday. On Sunday evening he told me he had got a pass to go from Boyle, but he telegraphed to Nashville to see if it was all right; seemed very much elated. I ought to have mentioned before that my drugs were brought from New Albany in a carpet bag. He carried it for me and some little bundles besides. While I lighted the gas he set my things into my room and bid me was not in my room. I called the landlord. He said the guard found it standing on the out door step. I told him he did not for there was a light in the hall; Forsythe preceded me upstairs and that he set it down by my door while I was unlocking it, and that after he bid me good night I looked to see if there was anything left but there was nothing there. The landlord said [he] had it put in the office. The facts were when he bid me good night he took the satchel to the office; had it examined (the key was in it); then telegraphed to Nashville. When to Gallatin without molestation forthwith. My trunk was not opened. I told him on Sunday night I had to stay until Tuesday night on account of my knitting-machine. He said I must go with him and he would leave a line to have it expressed on the next train but I took a carriage and got it before the cars started. The officers from Nashville met us at Bowling Green and arrested me at Mitchellville, fifty miles this side of Gallatin; took me to Nashville where they confiscated everything.
I was arrested on Monday before Christmas and have never known what evidence there was against me nor on what footing I was here until to-day. He has sworn falsely and misrepresented other things then said jocosely. The officer told me at Nashville that the fact of Gallating being attacked the very night I would have got there made it look like a preconcerted plan, but it was a feint of some of his men while like a preconcerted plan, but it was a feint of some of his men while he attacked Elizabethtown, but I knew nothing whatever more than what I had learned by Morgan's adjutant two weeks before, and I had been delayed and so had he by the Hartsville fight, and it was purely accidental my starting that day. I never spoke with Morgan nor any other officer of the Confederacy higher than a lieutenant-colonel and then only about my pass. Perhaps I ought to except General Polk. He is an old acquaintance, but politics were never mentioned. I never had anything to do with political affairs, neither do I wish to have.
"I am perfectly willing to make oath that this is as near the truth as I can get it from memory.
"MRS. CLARA JUDD. "
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MILITARY PRISON, Alton, Ill., May 15, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.:
COLONEL; I have the honor to forward herewith an application* of the female prisoner, Mrs. Clara Judd, now in confinement in this prison, for a parole to go to her friends in the State of Minnesota. She desires this indulgence on account of her health which for some time past has not been very good. The parole is recommended by her attending physician, Assistant Surgeon Wall, of the Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteers, the prison physician. I in close also a copy of the charges against Mrs. Judd. From what I have seen of Mrs. Judd since she has been under my control I am inclined to think if she were permitted to go to Minnesota she would probably remain there and give no further trouble during the war. I have the honor to be, sir, with much respect, your most obedient servant, T. HENDRICKSON, Major Third Infantry, Commanding the Prison.
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OFFICE OF THE COMMISSION
RELATING TO STATE PRISONERS,
Washington, April 1, 1862.
Brigadier General JAMES S. WADSWORTH, &C., Washington.
GENERAL: If they consent* you will please convey Mrs. Rose O'N. Greenhow, * * * prisoners at present held in the Old Capitol Military Prison in this city, beyond the lines of the U. S. forces into the State of Virginia and release them upon their giving their written parole of honor that they will not return north of the Potomac River during the present hostilies without permission of the Secretary of War.
Very respectfully, yours. JOHN A. DIX.
Added info. Cases of Mrs. Greenhow* was arrested on the 23rd day of August, 1861, in the city of Washington by order of the War Department and was placed under military guard at her own house. She was afterward transferred to the Old Capitol Prison. She was charged with being a sply in the interest of the rebels and furnishing the insurgent generals with important information relative to the movements of the Union forces. At the time of her arrest a number of cipher letters and a large quantity of correspondence containing military information evidently intendent for the insurgents were found torn into fragments in the stove where they had probably been cast by her. Some of these fragments were assorted and placed together so as to be read and copied. Mrs. Greenhow while imprisoned did not hesitate to express her sympathy for the success of the rebelion. The said Rose O'N. Greenhow remained in custody in the Old Capitol Prison February 15, 1862, when in conformity with the order of the War Department of the preceding day she was transferred to the charge of that Department.
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MILITARY PRISON, Alton, Ill., May 20, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN,
Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.
COLONEL: I have the honor to report that another female prisoner, a Miss Mollie Hyde, of Nashville, Tenn., has been sent to this prison "for spying and other misdeeds," to be confined during the war or until released by competent authority. She was sent here by order of General Rosecrans.
I have the honor to be sir, with much respect, your obedient servant,
T. HENDRICKSON,
Major Third Infantry, Commandant of Prison.
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OFFICE PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL,
Wheeling, March 9, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
SIR: I have to apologize for an unintentional error in my late report of the female prisoner Mary June Preter. I set her down as one, but it now appears she is two. The jailer informs me that she has been enceinte about five months. This complicates the matter somewhat. I presume I will soon receive final instructions from you concerning this one and Marain McKenzie, both arrested on same charge, wearing soldiers' apparel and frequenting our camps in that grab.
Very respectfully, JOS. DARR, JR., Major and Provost-Marshal-General.
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JULY 16, 1862.
Particulars respecting the five female prisoners in Camp Douglas:
Rebecca Parish, born in Lee County, Ga. ; about twenty-eight years of age; has always lived in Sumter County, Ga., till this last year; has been three years and a half married; her parents live in Barbour County, Ala. ; removed with her husband, a soldier in the Confederate service, and two children to Island Numbers 10 about the 1st of March last. Her husband and two children had died by the middle of April, since which time she has lived under the protection of her brother, and on the 15th of April she was taken prisoner with her brother, a soldier in the Confederate service, at Island Numbers 10. Having no friends there and no money to take her home, she preferred remaining with her brother, although the medical men in charge at Madison, Wis., would have given her her liberty and sent her back as far as Cairo.
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Harriet Redd, born in Wayne County, Miss. ; about twenty-four years of age; has lived the greater part of her life in Pike County, Ala. ; her parents live in Wayne County, Miss. ; two years and a half since she removed with her husband to Pike County, Ala., where she remained till her husband joined the Confederate Army, last January, and was taken prisoner with him at Island Numbers 10, while an invalid and has so continued and lives with her husband in this camp.
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Araminta Palmer, born in Pike County, Ky., is about twenty-two years of age; has mostly lived in Great Bend, [Meigs] County, Ohio; was married about two years since; went to Columbus, Ky., with her husband about a year and a half since, where her husband, an invalid, was sworn to support the Confederacy. Her husband has been dead ten months; was a cook in the Confederate hospital at Island Numbers 10 when taken prisoner on the 8th of last April. Has no relations within 800 miles of her and has been sickly in camp. Her parents are good Union people.
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Amelia Davis, born in East Brandon, Vt. ; is about thirty-three years of age; left Vermont at the age of 18; has lived in many parts of the Union; has been married twice. Her present husband is a seafaring man, whom she married in Baltimore two years since. Both husband and wife were respectively employed as cook and stewardess on board the steamer Red Rover when taken by General Buell at Island Numbers 10 and both sent prisoners to Camp Douglas together with a little boy eight years of age. Does not know that she has any relatives alive.
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Bridget Higgins, born in Galway, Ireland; came to America in 1857; was married in Baltimore. Her husband was obliged to join the Confederate Army about the 1st of October last and became a member of the Nelson Artillery. She has followed the fortunes of her husband since and they were taken prisoners at Island Numbers 10. Does not know that she has any relatives in this country. Is in delicate health.
The army’s now had a problem their prisons were made to hold men sometimes up to 30, thousand. Neither side wanted to put 10, women in with 30, thousand men that would cause more problems then if they hadn’t been caught. The higher commands said they would have to make do. The prison Officers for both sides told their governments for the need of new prisons and both agreed, but asked “where is the money coming from?, if you can find it, will build them.” Some prisons made room by dividing one room into two and putting up to ten women in one room that should only hold three. Because of these close quarters some soon became sick from the air and sanitary needs, and had to be taken to a hospital. Women were moved to city jails, wear houses and any place that could be guarded well. History will state that this war was won for this reason or that reason, but if the truth be known, it was won in part by the stronger sex the woman.
Note. This information will come from the official recorders of the Union and Confederate Armies which is housed at the State University of Ohio.
Note. Not only will there be information of the women in prison but a few report on what the conditions were.
U. S. GENERAL PRISON HOSPITAL,
Saint Louis, Mo., August 20, 1864.
Colonel J. P. SANDERSON,
Provost-Marshal-General Department of the Missouri:
COLONEL: I have the honor to state that there are now held in custody ten female prisoners in one room in Myrtle Street Prison. The room does not contain more than 2,400 cubic feet of air, which is barely sufficient for three persons. If allowed to remain in these quarters sickness will doubtless be one of the results. Illness to a certain extent has already occurred. We would respectfully ask instructions as to what course we must pursue. Shall we treat the cases as they occur in the quarters they now occupy or remove them to hospital?
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. M. YOUNGBLOOD,
Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army, Acting Surgeon in Charge.
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OFFICE INSPECTOR OF PRISONS,
Saint Louis, August 21, 1864.
Respectfully returned, with the suggestion that these female prisoners be removed to Gratiot Street Prison. I have had the honor before of explaining to the colonel the propriety of removing these women from Myrtle Street Prison, as the localities there are in no way the proper ones for that class of prisoners. The so-called lower round room at Gratiot Street Prison seems to be the proper place. It is a large and airy room, and perfectly isolated from the other rooms. One female prisoner is there now, and in one room with a man (the counterfeiter who was ordered to be kept single), and as this prison has no proper room for this purpose, I respectfully recommend that this lower round room be divided into two rooms by a partition, which would make good rooms for both purposes. The female sick may be accommodated in the branch hospital, which is right opposite, and where there is plenty of suitable room. I sincerely believe that this change would be of a great advantage and meet all the desirable points.
GUST. HEINRICHS,
Major and Inspector.
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HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,
Columbus, Ohio, April 23, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary - General of Prisoners:
The Governor of Ohio has in some instances granted paroles to rebel prisoners where in consequence of sickness it has been necessary to remove them from the prison. Yesterday he desired me to request that authority be vested in me to grant paroles in cases of this kind. He also suggested the propriety of paroling the female prisoners now here to the limits of this city. There are at present five female prisoners confined here, there being no suitable accommodations at Camp Chase. They were removed to the second story a house in the city, placed in the immediate charge of a loyal female, strictly guarded and subjected to all the regulations established by you for government of prisons. The house occupied was already in charge of the quartermaster and not renter for the purpose.
your letter of the 20th has been received and your instructions with reference carried into effect, Captain Webber, of the Governor's Guards, being commandant of prisons.
Your obedient servant, JNO S. MASON, Brigadier - General, Commanding.
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Colonel J. P. SANDERSON,
Provost-Marshal-General, Saint Louis, Mo.:
COLONEL: Respectfully referring to the above notes, your will see that our prisons continue to be in good order. I do, in fact, believe they are improving every day, notwithstanding the inefficiency of the buildings. I have also inspected the new female prison, situated opposite Gratiot Street Prison, and find it a very suitable place, provided that these female prisoners be properly classified according to their character. I have the honor, colonel, to suggest the prostitutes be transferred to the work-house of the city, because they are certainly a nuisance in or near a military prison, and it is, furthermore, a very simple matter to settle for their keeping with the city authorities.
I remain, sir, your obedient servant, GUST. HEINRICHS, Major and Inspector.
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MILITARY PRISON, Alton, Ill., July 26, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners:
Two of the female prisoners, Mrs. Nicholson and Mrs. Hyde, were released to-day, the former by an order form Brigadier-General Hurlbut, commanding at Memphis, Tenn., remitting unexpired sentence, and the letter by parole to Nashville, Tenn., by order of General Rosecrans.
I have the honor to be, sir, with much respect, your most obedient servant,
T. HENDRICKSON, Major, U. S. Army, Commandant of Prison.
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OFFICE COMMISSARY - GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Washington, D. C., May 2, 1863.
Major JOSEPH DARR, Jr.,
MAJOR: Please deliver to the provost - marshal in this city Mary J. Green and Maria Murphy, of Braxton County, and Jennie De Hart, female prisoners now in your custody charged with disloyal offenses. If there are any charges of disloyalty against Marian McKenzie or Mary Jane Prater you will send them also. Wearing soldier's clothes in camp is not an offense for which they can be sent South and if that is all that is against them they must be disposed of in some other way. Elizabeth Hays and Mary Summers are very hard cases and will have to remain on your hands until you see a good opening to dispose of them which I hope will soon present itself.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
W. HOFFMAN,
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ALTON MILITARY PRISON, Alton, Ill., February 16, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
COLONEL: On the night of the 23rd of January last a Mrs. Clara Judd, a female prisoner, was brought to this prison in company with several male prisoners, all of whom were easily provided for except the female. I did not know what to do with her as there were no rooms about the building where cooking could be done without a great expense, as I myself with several other officers am boarding at these headquarter buildings and have her boarded at $2 per week. But I do not feel justified to continue such board without advising you of the fact and ask you to approve or disapprove of said board of Mrs. Judd. Mrs. Judd was arrested and sent to this prison as a spy by order of General Rosecrans. She has never had any trial but is held in this prison as a spy. Please let me know what I shall do in regard to her board. She resides near Winchester, Tenn.
Added info. Provost-Marshal-General, Fourteenth Army Corps.
SIR: The following is the substance of the testimony elicited in the case of Mrs. Clara Judd, arrested by the army police on charge of attempting to carry through the lines articles contraband of war such as quinine, morphine, nitrate of silver, besides other goods, and one knitting-machine carried as a pattern, which articles, were found and have been purchased by her and brought within these army lines upon a pass obtained under false pretenses.
Mrs. Judd is the widow of an Episcopal clergyman who resides in Winchester, Tenn. He died some two years since leaving a large family of some seven children. Mrs. Judd passed through our lines with permission to take her three youngest children to Minnesota, from whence the family originally came. She took them, leaving them with a sister, she herself returning and passing through our lines to the rebel army. One of her oldest boys had found employment in the rebel establishment at Atlanta, Ga. During her absence her premises were seized on by the Confederates and her children remaining were taken by this young man to Atlanta.
In the autumn of 1862 she returned to Winchester, went thence to Atlanta claims to have received some $500 Southern funds of her son, which she exchanged for money current in the North. She also received funds from persons who desired her to purchase articles from the North for them. Having thus provided herself she came through our lines and was, under her representations that she wished to go to her children in Minnesota, granted a pass North. She states that from conversation of officers of the Confederate service whom she met on the cars going from Atlanta to Murfreesborough she learned I was the intention of John Morgan to strike at our railroad communications near Gallating at a certain time.
She found a traveling companion in the person of a Mr. Forsythe northward. She went as far as Louisville and Jeffersonville or New Albany, procuring the goods specified, returned on a pass to Gallatin. She states that her intention was to stop at Gallatin and set up the knitting-machine and manufacture stockings, &c., for a living, her object in doing so being that she would be near her children in Atlanta; that her living would be cheaper than in Nashville; that she supposed it would be lawful for her to hold her goods in expectation that the enemy would occupy the country and that she would then fall into their lines. It appears that she was tolerably well informed because about the time she expected it Morgan did make an attempt on Gallatin and shortly after broke the road above there.
It is respectfully submitted that she is a dangerous person to remain in these lines; that she is probably a spy as well as smuggler; that cases of this kind being of frequent occurrence by females examples should be made, and that as there is at present no proper tribunal for her especial trial or proper place of imprisonment at Nashville, she be committed to the military prison at Alton in the State of Illinois, for trial. It is well to state further that Mrs. Judd represents her son at Atlanta to be a very ingenious mechanic and that it was her intention to furnish him with the knitting-machine for the purpose of manufacturing others from it taken as a pattern.
Very respectfully, U. S. MILITARY PRISON.
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Alton, Ill., May 11, 1863.
Statement of Mrs. Clara Judd, who has been a prisoner in Alton Military Prison over three months as a spy.
She denies being guilty. Her health is failing very fast (having been in feeble health for several years) from confinement. She wishes to be paroled and go to her parents and little children who are living in Minnesota. She makes a statement here how she came in the south and how she came to be arrested:
"I am the widow of the Rev. B. S. Judd and a native of the State of New York. My parents live in Minnesota where I also resided with my husband seven years prior to going South. We moved to Winchester in November, 1859, on account of my health and on account of there being a chance of educating our children and board them at home and keep them under home influences. We had eight children. Six of them were going to school in 1861, when my husband went to Nashville on business and while there he went to view some statuary at the capitol; accidentally stepped off the parterre and was injured so that he died in just four weeks, leaving me with seven children (one having died in the fall) without money, with a great deal of unfinished business and not a relative or Northern person that I ever saw two years before. My friends in the North wrote to have me come home, but I had taken out letters of administration and had no means and the blockade soon closed all communication. I struggled on with my children's help who went to work at anything they could get to do until Christmas, 1862. I was censured very much because I did not put my oldest children, being boys, into the army. I could not think it my duty to let them go on either side my health being so poor and I liable to die at any time with heart disease. I thought they ought to preserve their lives to take care of those younger. At Christmas I put two of them into a Government factory to keep them from being conscripted. The factory was removed to Atlanta, Ga., in May. I was here and in the meantime I had sent the next oldest into the same business. I could not hear from them or from the North and I had no means to support my four remaining children but what I could to myself. Winchester was taken possession of five different times by the Federals. I always treated them as brothers; had a house full every time they were there. (I never had a Confederate soldier in my house.) The 1st of August Thomas took possession of the town. Among his troops I had many acquaintances who told me they were going to destroy all of the crops except enough to last six weeks. They advised me to get my little children to my parents in the North. I could not stay to dispose of anything. I had three cows and seven acres of crops and my household goods and husband's library. I got a protection from provost-marshal for my things and a little boy twelve years old; borrowed money and took my three youngest children out on the second train through from Decherd to Nashville. I was to be gone four weeks. I arrived in Minnesota on the 11th of August. Three days after I got there I had to take my children and flee from the Indians, which detained me three or four weeks instead of two. I then started with money enough as I supposed to take me to Nashville. I intended to go back and dispose of my effects if possible and get my boys out and go to Nevada Territory for two years. I had made arrangements for my sister to take care of my little children for three years, but when I arrived at Louisville they were expecting an attack from Bragg.
"I went to New Albany and was taken sick; was there six weeks. I after incredible trouble succeeded in hiring some money to pay my expenses and take me to Nashville where I was acquainted with the clergy and would get help there. I started but could not get my trunks through farther than Mitchellville. I was very deficient in clothing myself. I thought I would go to [Louisville] and get me some funds and come back to New Albany and pay the borrowed money and get a few clothes for myself and a hand knitting-machine which I had been talking of getting for several years. I accordingly did so. Told the offices at Nashville my whole business and tried to get a pass to go and come back, but could not get one to come back. When I got to Winchester I found everything destroyed except my husband's library and the son I left gone to the same business the others were at and that I could not get my sons out. When I left I supposed Buell would keep the country. I came back and was detained at Murfreesborough three days in trying to get a pass. When I got one I could not get any conveyance but walked eleven miles after 10 o'clock, the last three miles in my stocking feet, having blistered my feet the first three miles. I got a carriage at La Vergne to take me to where the flag officers were, as there was a flag that day. Just before I got there came a carriage from Murfreesborough bringing a gentleman who was said to be a prisoner of the South. The Federal officers would not let me through until they had been to headquarters. I wrote a statement to Rosecrans. While waiting there the person from Murfreesborough commenced questioning me. He told me he was from Connecticut. My husband and parents were from there. We soon seemed like old acquaintances. He wished to know where I stopped in Nashville. I told. Said he stopped there, and then said he would see Rosecrans about my pass; said he thought he had more power there than Colonel Hepburn. The second day after this the flag officer came out; told me that I could go, but would have to go under guard. I told them I would; I was perfectly willing. I had nothing but some open letters-those I sent to Rosecrans. I walked almost seven miles, my guard mounted. After giving a statement to headquarters of everything I saw while in the South I went to the same hotel where Mr. Forsythe (that is the name of the prisoner from Murfreesborough) put up. He was not there and the house was full. I went to a private house where I was slightly acquainted. The next morning I went to the provost-marshal's office and got a pass to go to Louisville. I found there was a battle near and that I would either stop in New Albany or go to a god-son's in Illinois and wait until times were settled after the battle, but when the clerk gave me my pass he said I could not go. The next day I wanted to go to Mitchellville on account of getting some clothes. I accordingly sent a note to Mr. Forsythe asking him to call wishing to have him provide me with a private conveyance to Mitchelville, he having informed me while out with the flag that he had been a merchant in Nashville for some time before he went to Murfreesborough. When he called he said he was going to Louisville the next day but one; wanted to see my pass. I finally told him my hurry to get through was mainly because I had heard about what time Morgan would interrupt that road and that I feared I would be left South which would trouble me very much on account of paying the money I had borrowed by a certain time, as the people had placed confidence in me. He said he was very glad I had told him as he had $30,000 worth of goods on the road or about to start, but wanted to know why I did to come back. I told him that at that time I feared come back told me before he was a widower; said he would like to become better acquainted with me; said Rosecrans had given him a pass to take my pass and have it changed to come back to Gallatin, where I could get to Murfreesborough after awhile. He went to headquarters and came back with the pass changed but laughed about the wording of it. He sid he would go with me in the morning and would be happy to render my any assistance I might need, and would introduce me to a merchant where I could get my things at wholesale.
"After we started in the morning I asked him how he came to have so much influence with Rosecrans. Said they were old neighbors, but after a little told me he was a Southern man as strong as any dared to be. I found I was in a close place. I could turn neither way, for the conductor would not wait for me to take my trunk aboard at Mitchellville, so that I could leave him in Louisville. He finally after we got there told me not to get anything contraband, but I told him there was nothing contraband while in the United States, and if I stopped finally urged me to buy. I told him I had no means; he offered me some money but I refused it. He then urged me to take the money I had brought to pay the debt I had contracted in New Albany. I was in debt in Winchester and thought if I had money it was a great temptation to buy and to stop in Gallatain and if Morgan took that part of the country it would help me out of debt but I did not yield at first. I went to New Albany and found the lawyer gone from home. Forsythe went with me when he found now things were. He told the gentleman in the office that I had to sacrifice a great deal of my money so that I had not got the clothing I needed and that he would vouch that I would send the money back in two or three weeks through his name to Cahill and Hues, Louisville, and gave his name and theirs in writing. Then as soon as we were in the street told me to buy drugs, and he would send me whatever I wanted in the drug line, and as soon as I could get to Atlanta he would visit me and set me up in a commission store. I supposed it was all understood between him and Rosecrans.
I need not worry about it when I bought my drugs. I traded where I had bought 50 cents worth of goods while I was boarding in town. He did not stop in the store when I traded; I wondered at it. We did not get back to Louisville till 12 at night on Saturday; the ferry-boat detained us. I had agreed to receive my knitting-machine at 7 o'clock that night; I could not get it on Sunday. On Sunday evening he told me he had got a pass to go from Boyle, but he telegraphed to Nashville to see if it was all right; seemed very much elated. I ought to have mentioned before that my drugs were brought from New Albany in a carpet bag. He carried it for me and some little bundles besides. While I lighted the gas he set my things into my room and bid me was not in my room. I called the landlord. He said the guard found it standing on the out door step. I told him he did not for there was a light in the hall; Forsythe preceded me upstairs and that he set it down by my door while I was unlocking it, and that after he bid me good night I looked to see if there was anything left but there was nothing there. The landlord said [he] had it put in the office. The facts were when he bid me good night he took the satchel to the office; had it examined (the key was in it); then telegraphed to Nashville. When to Gallatin without molestation forthwith. My trunk was not opened. I told him on Sunday night I had to stay until Tuesday night on account of my knitting-machine. He said I must go with him and he would leave a line to have it expressed on the next train but I took a carriage and got it before the cars started. The officers from Nashville met us at Bowling Green and arrested me at Mitchellville, fifty miles this side of Gallatin; took me to Nashville where they confiscated everything.
I was arrested on Monday before Christmas and have never known what evidence there was against me nor on what footing I was here until to-day. He has sworn falsely and misrepresented other things then said jocosely. The officer told me at Nashville that the fact of Gallating being attacked the very night I would have got there made it look like a preconcerted plan, but it was a feint of some of his men while like a preconcerted plan, but it was a feint of some of his men while he attacked Elizabethtown, but I knew nothing whatever more than what I had learned by Morgan's adjutant two weeks before, and I had been delayed and so had he by the Hartsville fight, and it was purely accidental my starting that day. I never spoke with Morgan nor any other officer of the Confederacy higher than a lieutenant-colonel and then only about my pass. Perhaps I ought to except General Polk. He is an old acquaintance, but politics were never mentioned. I never had anything to do with political affairs, neither do I wish to have.
"I am perfectly willing to make oath that this is as near the truth as I can get it from memory.
"MRS. CLARA JUDD. "
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MILITARY PRISON, Alton, Ill., May 15, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.:
COLONEL; I have the honor to forward herewith an application* of the female prisoner, Mrs. Clara Judd, now in confinement in this prison, for a parole to go to her friends in the State of Minnesota. She desires this indulgence on account of her health which for some time past has not been very good. The parole is recommended by her attending physician, Assistant Surgeon Wall, of the Seventy-seventh Ohio Volunteers, the prison physician. I in close also a copy of the charges against Mrs. Judd. From what I have seen of Mrs. Judd since she has been under my control I am inclined to think if she were permitted to go to Minnesota she would probably remain there and give no further trouble during the war. I have the honor to be, sir, with much respect, your most obedient servant, T. HENDRICKSON, Major Third Infantry, Commanding the Prison.
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OFFICE OF THE COMMISSION
RELATING TO STATE PRISONERS,
Washington, April 1, 1862.
Brigadier General JAMES S. WADSWORTH, &C., Washington.
GENERAL: If they consent* you will please convey Mrs. Rose O'N. Greenhow, * * * prisoners at present held in the Old Capitol Military Prison in this city, beyond the lines of the U. S. forces into the State of Virginia and release them upon their giving their written parole of honor that they will not return north of the Potomac River during the present hostilies without permission of the Secretary of War.
Very respectfully, yours. JOHN A. DIX.
Added info. Cases of Mrs. Greenhow* was arrested on the 23rd day of August, 1861, in the city of Washington by order of the War Department and was placed under military guard at her own house. She was afterward transferred to the Old Capitol Prison. She was charged with being a sply in the interest of the rebels and furnishing the insurgent generals with important information relative to the movements of the Union forces. At the time of her arrest a number of cipher letters and a large quantity of correspondence containing military information evidently intendent for the insurgents were found torn into fragments in the stove where they had probably been cast by her. Some of these fragments were assorted and placed together so as to be read and copied. Mrs. Greenhow while imprisoned did not hesitate to express her sympathy for the success of the rebelion. The said Rose O'N. Greenhow remained in custody in the Old Capitol Prison February 15, 1862, when in conformity with the order of the War Department of the preceding day she was transferred to the charge of that Department.
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MILITARY PRISON, Alton, Ill., May 20, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN,
Commissary-General of Prisoners, Washington, D. C.
COLONEL: I have the honor to report that another female prisoner, a Miss Mollie Hyde, of Nashville, Tenn., has been sent to this prison "for spying and other misdeeds," to be confined during the war or until released by competent authority. She was sent here by order of General Rosecrans.
I have the honor to be sir, with much respect, your obedient servant,
T. HENDRICKSON,
Major Third Infantry, Commandant of Prison.
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OFFICE PROVOST-MARSHAL-GENERAL,
Wheeling, March 9, 1863.
Colonel W. HOFFMAN, Commissary-General of Prisoners.
SIR: I have to apologize for an unintentional error in my late report of the female prisoner Mary June Preter. I set her down as one, but it now appears she is two. The jailer informs me that she has been enceinte about five months. This complicates the matter somewhat. I presume I will soon receive final instructions from you concerning this one and Marain McKenzie, both arrested on same charge, wearing soldiers' apparel and frequenting our camps in that grab.
Very respectfully, JOS. DARR, JR., Major and Provost-Marshal-General.
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JULY 16, 1862.
Particulars respecting the five female prisoners in Camp Douglas:
Rebecca Parish, born in Lee County, Ga. ; about twenty-eight years of age; has always lived in Sumter County, Ga., till this last year; has been three years and a half married; her parents live in Barbour County, Ala. ; removed with her husband, a soldier in the Confederate service, and two children to Island Numbers 10 about the 1st of March last. Her husband and two children had died by the middle of April, since which time she has lived under the protection of her brother, and on the 15th of April she was taken prisoner with her brother, a soldier in the Confederate service, at Island Numbers 10. Having no friends there and no money to take her home, she preferred remaining with her brother, although the medical men in charge at Madison, Wis., would have given her her liberty and sent her back as far as Cairo.
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Harriet Redd, born in Wayne County, Miss. ; about twenty-four years of age; has lived the greater part of her life in Pike County, Ala. ; her parents live in Wayne County, Miss. ; two years and a half since she removed with her husband to Pike County, Ala., where she remained till her husband joined the Confederate Army, last January, and was taken prisoner with him at Island Numbers 10, while an invalid and has so continued and lives with her husband in this camp.
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Araminta Palmer, born in Pike County, Ky., is about twenty-two years of age; has mostly lived in Great Bend, [Meigs] County, Ohio; was married about two years since; went to Columbus, Ky., with her husband about a year and a half since, where her husband, an invalid, was sworn to support the Confederacy. Her husband has been dead ten months; was a cook in the Confederate hospital at Island Numbers 10 when taken prisoner on the 8th of last April. Has no relations within 800 miles of her and has been sickly in camp. Her parents are good Union people.
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Amelia Davis, born in East Brandon, Vt. ; is about thirty-three years of age; left Vermont at the age of 18; has lived in many parts of the Union; has been married twice. Her present husband is a seafaring man, whom she married in Baltimore two years since. Both husband and wife were respectively employed as cook and stewardess on board the steamer Red Rover when taken by General Buell at Island Numbers 10 and both sent prisoners to Camp Douglas together with a little boy eight years of age. Does not know that she has any relatives alive.
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Bridget Higgins, born in Galway, Ireland; came to America in 1857; was married in Baltimore. Her husband was obliged to join the Confederate Army about the 1st of October last and became a member of the Nelson Artillery. She has followed the fortunes of her husband since and they were taken prisoners at Island Numbers 10. Does not know that she has any relatives in this country. Is in delicate health.
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