Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-05-07

lOfk, anu was COMMISSIONED Coiohei VI
one of the regiments composing 1t. In
September, 1861, he was nominated by the
President brigadier general OF volunteers,
but the nomination was rejected by the
Senate in March, 1862. A second renom-
ination was confirmed, and he received a
commission dating from September 3, 1861.
He fought in the battles of tho Chicka-
hominy campaign, his brigade forming
part of Hooker's division of Gen, Heint-
zelman's 1.-THE 3d) army corps. He sue
oeeded TO Gen. Hooker's command when
that officer took the LIST army corps, and
led that division IN the battles of Antietam
and fredericksburg. He was reelected
to Congress in 1860. He was appointed
major general at the last session of Con-
gress, and assigned to his present command
April Is.
MAJ. GEN. GEORGE G. MEADE,
Commander of the 5th army corps, was
born in Spain in 1916, entered the militia
ry academy at West Point from the Dis
trict of Columbia, and was graduated
there in 1889, and appointed Cd lieutenant
in the Sd artillery resigned his commits
sion October 26, 1886; was appointed I'd
lieutenant in the Typographical engineers
May 10, 1912; was breyetted LIST lieuten-
ant for gallantry at Monterey in lS45;
became lst lieutenant in August, 1851,
captain May 10, 1856, major In June,
1862, and brigader general of volunteers
August 81, 1861. He commanded a brig
ade in McCall's division of Pennsylvania
reserves in the army of the Potomac until
September, 1862, when he took command
of a division in the army corps under Gen.
Reynolds. He was severely wounded in
the battle of White Oak Swamp, June so,
1862. At the last session of Congress he
was appointed major general, and assigned
to the 9Th corps.
MAJ. GEN. JOHN SEDGwICK,
Commander of the 9th army corps, was
born in Connecticut, was graduated at
West Point in 1887, and appointed I'd
lieutenant in the Sd artillery. He was
promoted to be lst lieutenant in 1889, and
brevetted for gallantry at Contreras and
Cherubusco, where he had command of
his company. He was highly distinguish
ed for his conduct at the battles of Moline
del Rey and Chapultepec, and the attack
on the San Cosme gate, where he was
again in command of his company, and
for his gallantry in the second of these en-
gagements was brevetted major. He was
commissioned captain in l849, and in
March, 1856, was promoted to be MAJOR
in the LIST cavalry. On April %, 1861,
he was appointed colonel of the 4th caval-
ry, and on August 81, brigadier general
of volunteers. He was assigned to Gen
Stones command on the Upper Potomac
when that officer was arrested in February,
1862, and during the Chickahomlny cam
paign he led division in Gen, Summers
1the 2d) army corps. He was commits
stoned a major general of volunteers July
4, 1862. At the battle Of Antietam he
was seriously wounded and carried off
the field and on his recovery in Deem
Der he was assigned to the command of the
9th (late Burnside's) army corps, He
was assigned to the 9th corps of the army
of the Potomac April Is.
MAJOR GENERAL OLIVER OTIs HOWARD,
Commander of the llth army corps, was
born at Leeds, Me-, Nov. s, 1910. He
was graduated at Bowdoin College in
1880, and at West Point in 1854. In the
same year he was appointed brevet second
lieutenant Of ordnance, and became a first
lieutenant and instructor of mathematics
at West Point in 1857. He resigned his
commission, in 1861, to take the command
of the Sd regiment of Maine volunteers
At the first battle at Bull Run, he com.
manded the brigade in which the I'd Yer.
mont regiment was, and for his gallant
conduct in that battle was appointed brig,
adier-general of volunteers, Sept. 3, 1861
He was assigned to a brigade in the army
of the Potomac, and, in the battle of Fair
Oaks, June /, 1862, had his right arm
shot off After the battle Of Antietam, he
took Sedgwick's division in Summers
(new Couch's) army corps. Having been
promoted to be major general he was as
signed to the 18th corps of the army OF
the Potomac, April Is.
MAJOR GENERAL HENRY w. SLocuM,
Commander of the 18th corps, was born
at Delphi, New York, Sept "A, 1897,
He was graduated at West Point in 1852,
appointed I'd lieutenant in the LIST artll-
lery and ordered to Florida in the fall Of
the same year. He was promoted to a
LIST heutenancy in 1855, but resigned his
commission in 1857, returned to New
York and settled at Syracuse, oommeac-
ing the practice of law which he had pre-
viously studied. He was elected to the
New York assembly from the I'd district
of Onondaga in 1859. In May, 1861, he
was appointed colonel of the 9th N. Y.
regiment and joining McDowell's army just
as it was about to advance on Manassas,
was assigned to the brigade of Col. Andrew
Porter, in the division Of Col. Hunter. In
the battle of Bull Run he was shot through
the thigh. In August 8, he was appointed
brigadier general of volunteers and took
command of brigade in Franklin's
division of the army of the Poto-
mac he was In the hattla IF Vast Point