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The Daily Dispatch: March 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
oted their lives to the service of a country that has at last been yielded to the oppressor. He graduated as a Cadet, if we are correctly informed, in the class of 1818; was appointed 2d Lieutenant in the 1st Infantry in December, 1820; 1st Lieutenant in December, 1824, and was engaged in the Black Hawk war; was appointed Assistant Commissary of Subsistence in September, 1828, and Captain in March, 1833. He was transferred to the 8th Infantry in July, 1838, and distinguished himself under Col. Worth, in the Florida war; was appointed Major in the 6th Infantry in February, 1847, and transferred in 1852 to the 5th Infantry. A soldier, who fought under his command in Mexico, informs us that there never was a more gallant officer, and mentions, among his other acts, the holding of Fort Loreto, in Puebla, for thirty-two days, with a small force, against Santa Anna and his army. Since his return from Mexico, Maj. Gwynne has been unable, owing to blindness, to perform active duty. He