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Vermonters Who Served As Officers ; VERMONTERS Who Served as Commissioned Officers in the U. S. Army, U. S. Navy, U. S. Colored Troops, Veteran Reserve Corps, as General or Staff Officers, and in Organizations from Other States. BY HERBERT SIDNEY FOSTER, CAPTAIN, TWENTIETH INFANTRY, U. S. ARMY. THE following lists comprise the names of 591 ter, Ethan A. Hitchcock, Perley P. Pitkin, U. A. sons of Vermont, who served as commissioned Woodbury, Rush C. Hawkins, Orville E. Babcock, officers in the regiments and batteries of other Chas. E. Hovey, Hannibal Day, Justin Dimick, Amos States, or were officers of the regular army, or the Beckwith, H. S. Burton, Napoleon B. McLaughlin, United States navy, during the War of the Rebellion, Wm. Smith, Gustavus Loomis, Wm. Y. W. Ripley, natives E. Henry Powell, Edward R. Piatt, Asa P. Blunt, being either of or appointed from Vermont ; Geo. or who were general officers, or received general W. Hooker, Merritt Barber, Ira H. Evans, Daniel staff appointments in the volunteer service, or be- D. Wheeler, Lucius J. Dixon, Samuel W. Thayer, came commissioned officers of colored troops, or of Edward E. Phelps, Gardner S. Blodgett, Horatio L. the Veteran Reserve Corps. Wait, Albert S. Kenney, Horatio B. Lowry, Edwin The town mentioned is generally the native place T. Woodward, Emerson H. Liscum, Nathan P. Bow- of the officer, though, in a few cases, the native place man, and many others. Four of these have been at not being known, the town in which he resided, or the head of importantant staff departments of the from which he enlisted, is given. It is not supposed army, and one is the present Paymaster-General. that the lists are complete, and as the information It will be seen that the Sons of Vermont held embodied in them has, in many cases, been obtained commands in the troops of nearly every loyal State in the Union that the from unofficial sources, some inaccuracies may ap- ; State furnished a good pro- portion of officers for the regular army, pear ; but they have been prepared with much labor, the navy, the Veteran Reserve Corps, and the colored have been made as accurate as possible, and, so far troops ; and as known, are the only lists of the kind in existence, that the superior business qualifications of her sons or that have ever been prepared for any State. were recognized by the large number appointed to responsible positions in the The class first mentioned is divided among the Pay, Quartermasters' and Subsistence Departments. The standing : of different States as follows Maine, 3 ; New Hamp- her sur- 1 geons for professional and executive ability is shire, 8 ; Massachusetts, 5 ; Rhode Island, ; Con- shown 1 by the assignment of so many of them to positions necticut, 4 ; New York, 14 ; New Jersey, ; Penn- of great trust, labor and responsibility. ; Ohio, 2 Indiana, I Illinois, sylvania, 4 ; ; 34 Wherever and with Wisconsin, 1 1 Missouri, ; Iowa, whomever they served, Michigan, 7 ; ; 3 30 ; these 2 Virginia, 1 Sons of the Green Mountain State fully Minnesota, 3 ; Kansas, ; West ; North sustained the reputation of the Vermont Carolina, 2; California, 1 ; Tennessee, 1 ; total, 138. organizations. They served in the regular were represented in Fort Sumter Those who army number in 1861 ; they navy, ; as general officers, in helped make the glorious 103 ; in the 109 39 ; record of the Army of the in Potomac they the general staff, 92 ; the colored troops, 103 ; in ; marched with Sherman from Atlanta to the sea and the Veteran Reserve Corps, 6. ; they campaigned with Grant and In the lists we find 7 Major-Generals, 7 Brevet Banks in the Valley of the Mississippi. Their blood Major-Generals, 9 Brigadier-Generals, 16 Brevet was spilled on every battle field of the war from the Brigadier-Generals, and such distinguished names as Susquehanna to the Rio Grande. They fought with William Farrar Smith, Israel B. Richardson, Joseph Foote, Dupont, Porter and Farragut, on river and A. Mower; Thomas E. G. Ransom, Truman Seymour, sea, and won undying fame at Donelson, Charleston, William B. Hazen, Sylvester Churchill, Theodore P. Vicksburg, Fort Fisher and Mobile. They made a Greene, William G. Temple, George Dewej% Francis record of which the State may well be proud, and the M. Lowrey, Benjamin S. Roberts, George C. Strong, memory of their heroic achievements will be an in- George Wright, Benjamin Alvord, Jedediah H. Bax- spiration to coming generations. 676.
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