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UNITED STATES. 



of Gens. Kearney, Mason, and Eiley, 1847-49 ; 

 chief of staff to Com. Shubrick, 1847-'8 ; aided 

 in forming the Constitution of California, 1849 ; 

 promoted to captaincy of engineers, 1853 ; re- 

 signed in 1854, to engage in the practice of 

 law in San Francisco ; abandoned a large and 

 lucrative practice in the summer of 1861 ; ap- 

 pointed major-general of the regular army, and 

 put in charge of the Department of the West. 

 Head-quarters at St. Louis. 



Major-General Don Carlos Buell is a native 

 of Ohio, born in 1820 ; entered "West Point, 

 1837; graduated in 1841 ; became second lieu- 

 tenant same year; first lieutenant in 1846; 

 brevetted captain in 1848 for gallant and mer- 

 itorious conduct at the battle of Monterey ; was 

 adjutant in 1847 and 1848 ; distinguished him- 

 self at Cerro Gordo ; was brevetted major for 

 services at Contreras and Churubusco, and se- 

 verely wounded in the latter battle ; assistant 

 adjutant-general in 1848 ; relinquished his rank 

 in the line in 1851, but subsequently resumed 

 it, and was in service as major in California at 

 the commencement of the war ; appointed brig- 

 adier-general by Congress May 17, 1861, and 

 given a command on the Potomac ; assigned to 

 the Department of Ohio on resignation of An- 

 derson, and made major-general. 



Major-General David Hunter, a native of the 

 District of Columbia, born about 1802, gradu- 

 ated at West Point in 1822 ; became first lieu- 

 tenant in 1828 ; captain First Dragoons, 1833 ; 

 resigned in 1836, but returned to the army as 

 temporary paymaster in 1841, and paymaster 

 in 1842. In the present war, colonel in May at 

 Washington; brigadier-general, and engaged 

 in battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 ; sent to 

 Missouri, made major-general, and took Gen. 

 Fremont's place temporarily ; transferred to 

 Department of Kansas in December, 1861. 



Major-General John Ellis Wool was born at 

 Newburgh, New York, 1789. At the commence- 

 ment of the war with Great Britain in 1812, he 

 obtained a captain's commission in the Thir- 

 teenth Regiment of infantry, and joined the 

 army on the Niagara frontier. At the battle 

 on Queenstown Heights he distinguished him- 

 self, but by the surrender was made a prisoner ; 

 upon his exchange was assigned to the Twenty- 

 ninth Regiment infantry, having previously 

 been appointed major. In September, 1861, 

 appointed inspector-general, with the rank of 

 colonel ; in 1818 lieutenant-colonel, and in 1826, 

 " for ten years' faithful service," brevetted brig- 

 adier-general ; in 1836 assisted in the removal 

 of the Indians from the Cherokee country to 

 Arkansas; appointed brigadier-general in 1841 ; 

 distinguished himself in the war with Mexico, 

 and was brevetted major-general in 1848 ; after 

 the Mexican war, Gen. Wool was assigned to 

 the command in the Eastern Military Depart- 

 ment ; on August 12, 1861, he was ordered 

 to the command of the forces at Fortress Mon- 

 roe, and was subsequently raised to the rank of 

 major-general. 



Major-General Benjamin F. Butler is a native 



of New Hampshire, born about the year 1818 ; 

 chose the legal profession ; was admitted to the 

 bar in 1842, and settled in practice at Lowell, 

 Mass., where he became distinguished as a 

 criminal lawyer, and a rising politician; was 

 democratic candidate for Governor in 1859 ; 

 volunteered in command of one of the three- 

 months Massachusetts regiments in April, 

 1861 ; was appointed brigadier-general in May ; 

 stationed first at Baltimore, and subsequently 

 at Fortress Monroe ; ordered the expedition to 

 Great Bethel ; was promoted to major-general- 

 ship ; commanded the land forces in Hatteras 

 expedition, and subsequently in the Ship Island 

 expedition. 



Major-General John Adams Dix was born in 

 Boscawen, New Hampshire, July 24, 1798 ; en- 

 tered West Point Military Academy in 1812 ; en- 

 sign Fourteenth Infantry, 1813; second lieuten- 

 ant, 1814; first lieutenant artillery, 1818 ; aide- 

 de-camp to Gen. Brown in 1819; captain artil- 

 lery, 1825 ; resigned, 1828, and same year settled 

 as a lawyer in Cooperstown, New York ; adju- 

 tant-general of State, 1830 ; Secretary of State, 

 1833 ; United States Senator, 1845-49 ; assist- 

 ant treasurer United States, New York, in 

 1853 ; postmaster New York City, 1860 ; Sec- 

 retary of the Treasury, (close of Buchanan Ad- 

 ministration,) 1861 ; appointed brigadier-gen- 

 eral, and major-general in summer of 1861 ; in 

 command of Federal forces at Baltimore. Has 

 travelled extensively abroad, and is the author 

 of "Resources of the City of New York," 

 1827; "A Winter in Madeira," 1851; "A 

 Summer in Spain and Florence," 1855. 



Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks born in 

 Waltham, Mass., January, 1816. In 1848 was 

 representative for Waltham. In 1850 was sent 

 to the State Senate ; in 1852 was elected to 

 Congress ; was chosen Specter of the 34th 

 Congress ; in 1856 elected Governor of Massa- 

 chusetts, serving three terms. Was appointed 

 major-general of volunteers in the United 

 States army, May 11, 1861 ; was first com- 

 mander of the Department of Annapolis, and 

 since, of that of Shenandoah. 



Brigadier-General Edwin V. Sumner, born in 

 Massachusetts about 1800 ; appointed second 

 lieutenant of infantry in 1819 ; first lieutenant, 

 1823; assistant commissary of subsistence in 

 1827; captain of dragoons, 1833; major Second 

 Eegiment of dragoons, 1846 ; brevet lieutenant- 

 colonel for gallant and meritorious conduct at 

 Cerro Gordo, where he commanded a regiment 

 of mounted rifles and was wounded ; brevet col- 

 onel for conduct at Molino del Rey ; lieutenant- 

 colonel, 1848 ; colonel First Cavalry, 1855 ; de- 

 feated a body of Cheyenne warriors in Kansas 

 in 1857 ; remained in Kansas till 1859 ; mode 

 brigadier-general in August, 1861. 



Brigadier-General Samuel P. Heintzelman is 

 a native of Pennsylvania, born about 1806; 

 graduated at West Point, 1826; second lieu- 

 tenant infantry same year ; first lieutenant, 

 1833 ; assistant commissary, 1836 ; assistant 

 quartermaster, 1838 ; captain same year ; bre- 





