394 HARTSUFF, GEORGE L. 



HAVEMEYER, WILLIAM F. 



in Tyne, Seneca County, 1ST. Y., May 28, 1830 ; 

 died in New York City, May 16, 1874. His 

 family removed to Michigan in his childhood, 

 and he was appointed a cadet at West Point 

 from that State in 1848, and graduated thence 

 in 1852 as second brevet-lieutenant of the 

 Fourth Artillery, and did garrison duty in New 

 York and on the Texas frontier till 1853, when 

 he was transferred as second-lieutenant to the 

 Second Artillery, and ordered to Florida on 

 topographical duty. In 1855 he was promoted 

 to be first-lieutenant in the same regiment, and 

 in a skirmish with the Seminoles was left for 

 dead on the field, being pierced by three balls, 

 one in the chest (which was never removed). 

 and one in each leg. He dragged himself by 

 his arms for fifteen miles through the Indian 

 country, reached camp, and recovered. From 

 1856 to 1859 he was detailed as assistant in- 

 structor at West Point. He was on frontier 

 duty at Fort Mackinac from 1859 to 1860. 

 While stationed there he took passage on the 

 ill-fated steamer Lady Elgin, on Lake Michigan. 

 Four hundred persons perished, but he escaped 

 by seizing a piece of floating timber, and was 

 finally washed ashore. After a leave of ab- 

 sence in 1860 and 1861, he did garrison duty in 

 the vicinity of Washington. In March, 1861, 

 he was appointed brevet-captain, and assigned 

 to duty as assistant adjutant-general, in which 

 capacity he went with the secret expedition 

 under command of Colonel Harvey Brown to 

 Fort Pickens. In July, with the rank of cap- 

 tain, he became chief of staff of Brigadier- 

 General Rosecrans, commanding the Depart- 

 ' rnent of West Virginia, and participated in the 

 action at Carnifex Ferry, September 10, 1861, 

 and the other battles of the campaign. He was 

 assigned in April and May, 1862, to special 

 duty at the War Department as assistant adju- 

 tant-general to the Secretary of War. In the 

 latter part of May he took command of a bri- 

 gade of volunteers in the field, with the First 

 Army Corps. His brigade was in the night battle 

 at Cedar Mountain in August, and bore itself 

 bravely, throughout that and other actions in 

 which it was afterward engaged. At Rappa- 

 hannock Bridge his command was the only one 

 that crossed the river, and it held the eminences 

 south of the river, for several days, despite the 

 almost continuous fire of the enemy. When 

 the Army of the Potomac was retreating, his 

 brigade formed a part of the protecting line, 

 and, for twenty days, he was within the reach 

 of the enemy's guns. He also bore a conspicu- 

 ous part in the battles of South Mountain and 

 Antietam, and was promoted to the rank of 

 brevet-colonel on September 17, 1862, for gal- 

 lant and meritorious services in the last-named 

 action, when he was severely wounded. He 

 then received leave of absence, on account of 

 his wounds, until December 18, 1862. In the 

 mean time he was appointed Major-General of 

 the United States Volunteers on November 

 29th, and, upon his convalescence, served as 

 member of the Board to revise Rules -and Arti- 



cles of War, and to prepare a code for the 

 government of the armies in the field. From 

 April to November, 1863, he was in command 

 of the Twenty-third Army Corps during the 

 operations in Kentucky and the occupation of 

 East Tennessee. Being again incapacitated for 

 field duty by reason of the wounds which he 

 had received at Antietam, he was not placed 

 on duty until July, 1864, when he served on 

 courts-martial until January, 1865. On March 

 13, 1865, he was promoted to the rank of 

 brevet brigadier-general of the United States 

 Army for gallant services in the campaign ter- 

 minating with the surrender of the insurgent 

 army under General R. E. Lee, and was placed 

 in command of the Bermuda front of the works 

 for the siege of Petersburg. As Brevet Major- 

 General of the United States Army, to which 

 position he was promoted on the same date 

 that he was made a brevet brigadier-general, 

 he was afterward assigned to the command of 

 various important posts in Virginia, until he 

 was. mustered out of the volunteer service on 

 August 24, 1865. He afterward did duty as 

 adjutant-general of the Department of the 

 Gulf and of the Fifth Military District, com- 

 posed of Louisiana and Texas. At the time of 

 his retirement he occupied the position of as- 

 sistant adjutant-general of the Military Division 

 of Missouri, with headquarters in Chicago. 

 The wounds which incapacitated him having 

 been received when in the discharge of his 

 duty as major-general (at Antietam), he was 

 retired with that rank and full pay. After 

 some time he went abroad, and interested him- 

 self in bringing American improvements in 

 artillery to European attention. He had finally 

 returned with the purpose of making New York 

 his homeland had just completed his prepara- 

 tions for settling down to house-keeping, when 

 he was attacked with pneumonia from becom- 

 ing overheated, and the inflammation of the 

 lungs around the cicatrix of the old wound re- 

 ceived in Florida caused the disease to prove 

 fatal in a very few days. He was buried at 

 West Point at his own request. 



HAVEMEYER, WILLIAM F.. a prominent 

 citizen of New York ; at his death, Mayor of 

 New York for the third time ; born in New 

 York City, February 12, 1804 ; died at his office, 

 in the City-Hall of that city, November 30, 1874. 

 He was of German ancestry, his father having 

 emigrated to this city in 1798. He received 

 an excellent education in the best schools of 

 the city, and graduated from Columbia College 

 at the age of nineteen. After his graduation he 

 entered the sugar-refinery of his father, ac- 

 quired a thorough knowledge of the business, 

 and in 1828 succeeded to it, having a cousin 

 as a partner. In 1842 he nominally retired 

 from business with a handsome fortune, but 

 retained an interest as silent partner for some 

 years. He had always been an active politi- 

 cian, was a warm admirer of General Jackson, 

 and a stanch friend to his successor. In 

 1844 he was a presidential elector on the Polk 



