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1863. Aide-De-Camp, Major, Died, After a Short Illness, at St. Louis

ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE, ORDERS. Washington, June 25, 1863. It is the melancholy duty of the Adjutant General to announce to his Department the decease of one of its valued members, Lieutenant Colonel Albert V. Colburn, Additional Aide-de-Camp, Major, and Assistant Adjutant General, who died, after a short illness, at St. Louis, Missouri, on the 17th instant Lieutenant Colonel Colburn graduated at the Military Academy, and entered the 1st regiment of Cavalry as a Brevet Second Lieutenant in" 1855, and was promoted Second Lieutenant in the same year. In 1857 he was appointed Adjutant of his regiment As Acting Assistant Adjutant General to Colonel Sumner, during the campaign against the Comanche and Kiowa Indians in I860, his energy and zeal won for. him the esteem of that lamented veteran. In July, 1861, he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General, witli the brevet rank of Captain, and was shortly after assigned to duty with Major General McClellan. In the same year he was appointed an Additional Aide-de-Camp for that General, with the rank of Lieu- tenant Colonel. He served at the Headquarters of the Army of the Potomac during the campaign on the Peninsula and in Maryland, and enjoyed, in a high degree, the confidence of the Commander of that Army In December, 1862, he was assigned to the Headquarters ot the Department of the Missouri, where he filled an important and responsible position up to the period ofhis death. Lieutenant Colonel Colburn was distinguished for his gallantry as a soldier, and also for his many social qualities. He had thus won the respect and affection of a large circle of his brethren in arms, who will long mourn his loss. As a token of respect to his memury, the Officers of the Department will wear the usual badge of mourning on the left arm for thirty days. L. THOMAS, Adjutant General. Official: Assistant Adjutant General..

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