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Keyes, Erasmus Darwin 1810-1895

Military officer; born in Brimfield, Mass., May 29, 1810; graduated at West Point in 1832, entered the artillery, and was made assistant adjutant, with rank of captain, in 1838. Becoming full captain in 1841, he was appointed instructor of artillery and cavalry at West Point in 1844. He did service against the Indians on the Pacific coast, and when the Civil War broke out was appointed (May, 1861), colonel of infantry and brigadier-general of volunteers. At the battle of Bull Run, in July, he commanded the first brigade in Taylor's division. Early in 1862 he was appointed commander of the 4th Corps of the Army of the Potomac, and won the rank of major-general of volunteers and the brevet of brigadier-general, U. S. A., by his conduct in the peninsular campaign. He resigned May 6, 1864, and engaged in gold-mining. General Keyes published Fifty years observation of men and events. He died in Nice, France, Oct. 11, 1895.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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