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VII.
list of Massacusetts Officers in regular Army and staff Corps.
note. The basis of admittance to the following list is the same with that already explained in connection with the list of
General Officers.
A seeming confusion sometimes results, in this list, from the fact that the relative rank of an officer in the U. S. (regular) Army is determined, not by the date of his commission, but by the date of his formal acceptance of it, until which last event he still retains his lower rank, and may serve for a time as a lieutenant, for instance, after he is commissioned a captain.
Thus, in the case of
Bancroft, Eugene Adolphus, he appears as a private of Illinois Volunteers from May 6 to Nov. 9, 1861, because, although commissioned on Oct. 24, 1861, as
Second Lieutenant, 4th U. S. Artillery, he did not accept the promotion until Nov. 9.
In most cases the date of acceptance cannot here be given, because it is only recently that the annual Army Register has included it; but the apparent discrepancies in successive dates in this list proceed almost wholly from this cause, and are thus unavoidable.
Born at
Beverly, Mass , Oct. 22, 1841.
Private and
Sergeant, 17th U. S. Infantry, July 1 to Nov. 14, 1862.
Second Lieutenant, Nov. 10, 1862.
First Lieutenant, Apr. 27, 1863.
Brevet Captain, U. S. Army, July 2, 1863.
Died, July 8, 1863, of wounds received at the
battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.
See
General Officers.
See
General Officers.
See
General Officers.
Born in
Massachusetts.
Private, 22d Mass. Infantry, Sept. 16, 1861, to Aug. 19, 1862.
Second Lieutenant, 6th U. S. Colored Cavalry, Oct. 21, 1864.
First Lieutenant, Feb. 24, 1866.
Mustered out, Apr. 19, 1866.
Second Lieutenant, 36th U. S. Infantry, Aug. 24, 1867.
Resigned, Apr. 7, 1869.
See
General Officers.
Born in
Massachusetts.
Second Lieutenant, 33d Mass. Infantry, July 17, 1862.
First Lieutenant, Nov. 29, 1862.
Resigned, Mar. 28, 1863.
Private, Corporal and
Sergeant, 2d Battalion, 17th U. S. Infantry, May 11, 1863, to July 25, 1864. Second and
First Lieutenant, June 30, 1864.
Brevet Captain, U. S. Army, Aug. 18, 1864.
Cashiered, Feb. 22, 1865.
Born at
Westfield, Mass., Apr., 1840.
Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1857, to June 24, 1861.
Second Lieutenant, 4th U. S. Infantry, June 24, 1861.
First Lieutenant, June 24, 1861.
Captain, Aug. 9, 1862.
Resigned on account of sickness, June 29, 1864.
Died at
Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1865.
Born in
New Hampshire.
Major,
Surgeon, 22d Mass. Infantry, June 25, 1862.
Major,
Surgeon, U. S. Volunteers, Nov. 7, 1862.
Brevet Lieut. Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, June 1, 1865.
Mustered out, July 27, 1865.
Died in 1878.
Born in
Massachusetts.
Private and
Q. M. Sergeant,
Birge's Sharpshooters, Ill. Volunteers, Dec. 1, 1861, to Aug. 12, 1863.
Captain,
Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 12, 1863, to Dec. 2, 1865.
Captain,
Assistant Quartermaster, U. S. Army, Nov. 27, 1865.
Brevet Major, U. S. Army, Mar. 2, 1867.
Resigned, Dec. 9, 1871.