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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 15 : (search)
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16 : ecclesiastical History. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], A singular wound. (search)
Brig. Gen. George B. Crittenden, of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, is a native of Kentucky, and a graduate of West Point of the class of 1832.
He was appointed Second Lieutenant 4th infantry in that year, but resigned from the army in the spring of 1833.
At the opening of the Mexican war he was appointed Captain of a corps of mounted riflemen, and commissioned on 25th May, 1846. For gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, 20th August, 1847, was brevetted Major; on 30th December, 1856, was raised to the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel. Gen. Crittenden will be remembered as having been in Charleston to attend a court-martial held at Fort Moultrie for the trial of Surgeon B. M. Byrne in the spring of 1859.
The distinguished cavalry officer, Col. Charles May, was also one of the Court.