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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
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had seen twice wounded while most nobly carrying out my orders upon the field. After this report, but before the final capitulation of General Johnston, Colonel Crews was promoted to brigadier-general. Brigadier-General Alfred Cumming Brigadier-General Alfred Cumming, a native of Augusta, Ga., was appointed to the United States military academy in 1845, and graduated in 1849, with promotion to brevet second lieutenant of the Eighth infantry. He was on duty in convoying a train to Pecos, Tex., was stationed at Fort Lincoln in 1850, subsequently at Jefferson barracks, and again in Texas at Brownsville. He was aide-de-camp to General Twiggs, 1851-53, subsequently on frontier duty, engaged in escorting the Mexican boundary commission, and in the Utah expedition. When Georgia seceded, he promptly sent in his resignation January 19, 1861, and then entering the military service of his State, was elected lieutenant-colonel commanding the Augusta volunteer battalion, a wellequipped