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Curtis, Samuel Ryan -1866
Military officer; born near Champlain, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1805; graduated at West Point in 1831, and the following year left the army and studied law; served under General Taylor in the war with Mexico, and was General Wool's assistant adjutant-general in that war. He was for a while governor of Saltillo.
He became a member of Congress in 1857, retaining that post until 1861, and was a member of the Peace Congress.
In May, 1861, he was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, and in March, 1862, major-general.
Commanding the army in Missouri, he gained the battle of Pea Ridge (q. v.). After the war he was appointed United States commissioner to treat with Indian tribes—
Samuel Ryan Curtis. Sioux, Cheyennes, and others.
He died in Council Bluffs, Ia., Dec. 26, 1866