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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 5 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), IV . Cold Harbor (search)
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Index (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cullum , George Washington 1809 -1892 (search)
Cullum, George Washington 1809-1892
Military officer; born in New York City Feb. 25, 1809; graduated at West Point in 1833, entering the engineering corps, and becoming captain in July, 1838.
He was made major in August, 1861; lieutenantcolonel in March, 1863, and colonel, March, 1867, and was retired in 1874.
In the volunteer service he reached the rank of brigadier-general and brevet major-general during the Civil War. He was one of the most accomplished and useful officers of enginee dede-camp to General Scott in 1861, and on the staff of General Halleck in 1862, accompanying him to Washington.
He was an efficient member of the United States sanitary commission, and superintendent of West Point Academy from 1864 to 1866. General Cullum published several books on military affairs, and a Biographical register of the officers and graduates of West Point (1st ed., 1868; 2d ed., 1879; 3d ed., revised and extended, 1891). He bequeathed $250,000 for the erection of a military memo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sanitary commission , the United States (search)