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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Wilkinson, James 1757-
Military officer; born in Benedict, Md., in 1757; was preparing for the medical profession when the Revolutionary War broke out. He repaired to Cambridge after the battle of Bunker (Breed's) Hill, where he was made a captain in Reed's New Hampshire regiment in the spring of 1776.
He served under Arnold in the Northern army, and in July, 1776, was appointed brigademajor.
He was at the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and was made lieutenantcolonel in January, 1777.
He was Gates's adjutant-general, and bore to Congress an account of the capture of Burgoyne, when he was brevetted brigadier-general and made secretary to the board of war, of which Gates was president.
Being implicated in Conway's cabal he resigned the secretaryship, and in July, 1779, was made clothier-general to the army.
At the close of the war he settled in Lexington, Ky., and engaged in mercantile transactions.
In 1791-92 he commanded, as lieutenant-colonel of infantry, an expeditio