American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-03-21

who had issued orders to dissrm tie ter
ritorial militia, principally Missourians,)
called out BY his predecessor, was endeav-
oring to bring peace out of anarchy
protected Lawrence against their threat
ened attack, and generally dealt with
fairness toward all conten ding factions
in the territory. Not receiving the sup
port from President Buchanan which
was promised him when he accepted the
position, Gen. Gsary, in March, 1857
resigned his office and retsrned homc,
greatly to the regret Of the free-5tate
population. His administration there,
during a period of unexampIed difficulty
will always be spoken of to his praise +
His more receut history, as gallant
General of the Union armies, during the
Great Rebellion, is known to all, aud
needs no repitition here; as we had de-
signed more to call attention to Geary as
civilian than as military man, the du.
ties of the position which he is next to
occupy pertaining almost entirely to the
fermcr character, and requiring the ex-
ecative ability so abundautly shown by
him in the civil positions he has hereto
sore filed.
The Pittsburgh Gasefte gives the fol-
lowing brief but correct resume of Gen.
Geary's military achievements during the
war:
From reports 6led in the Office of the
Secretary of war, it appears that during
his term Of service Gen. Geary was en-
gagged in over fifty hotly contested battles
and important skrmishes, besides many
others of lesser note. Among these en-.
gagements may be especially named that
Boliver Heights, Cedar Mountain, the
three days fight at Charlottesville, the
struggle at Gettysburg, which also lasted
three days, and resulted in driving back
the enemy from the soil of Pennsylvania,
Wauhatehie, Lookout Mountain, Mission
Ridge, Ringgold, Triana, Mill Greek and
Snake Creek Gaps, Resaca, 1.-TWO days
New Hope Church, (seveh days. Muddy
Greek, Nose Greek kolb's Farm, Kene.
saw, Pine Hill, Marietta, Peach Tree
Greek, siege and capture of Atlanta,
Ctwenty days. siege of Savannah, (ten
days,) which was captured by his division
ten hours before any other troops reached
that city as was also Fort jackson, both
of which places were surrendered in
person to Gen. Gsary. In this capture
three hundred aud fifty prisoners, one
hundred and fourteen pieces Of artillery,
thirty y-eight thousand Eve hundred bales
of cotton aud five ocean steamers, with an
immense variety Of ammunition and other
stores, fell into the hands OF the victors.
Upon the capture of Savannah. Gen.
Geary was appointed by Maj. Gen. Sher-
man, its Military Governor, which posi-
ton he filed with signal credit to himself
until he was relieved, that he might ac-
company the triumphant army Of Shcr-
man in its further march through tho
Carolinas.
In the battle of Bolivsr Heights he
received a severe wound in the right knee,
aud at Cedar Mountain he was slightly
woundei ia the LETT ankle, and seriously
through the elbow joint Of the left arm.
He was also struck in the right breast
and severely injured by the fragment OF
shell at Chaucellorsville His two sons
accompanied him to the fcld, the eldest
of whom, young man Of eighteen years,
who had advanced himself by sterling
ability to the command OF battery, with
the rank of Captain, and gave promise
OF the utmost capacity and usefulness,
was killed at the battle of Wauhatchie.
"At the time that he fell" says an elo-
qucnt writer, "he was acting as Leuten-
ant of one section of Knapp's Battery
AS an artillcrest he had no superior in
the army. His gun was his pride. lie
was always beside her, and his aim was
unerring. At this battle, about twelve
hundred and fifty men under command
OF Gen. Geary, were attacked from an
eminenee, by five thousand of the enemy,
at twelve o'clock at night The unequal
fight was gallantly accepted, and though
the command was at first thrown into
some disorder, they speedily rallied, and
not only repused but drove from the
ield the vastly superior numbers Of the
enemy. In the hottest of the aght--in
the ACT of sighting his gun, his forehead
pier,ed with bullet, young Geary fell,
aud instantly expired. Ills father coming
to the spot, clasped in an agonizing EN-
brace the lifeless form OF his boy-then
mounting his horse, dashed wildly into
the thickest ranks of the foe, aud rode
like an aveDging spirit over that bloody
| field until the enemy were utterly routed
and put to flight" This General Hooker
pronounces the most gallant and success
| full charge that has come to his knowledge
during the war.
In this official report Of this battle
Gen. Hooker says:
During these operations a heavy mus
kerry fire, with rapid discharges of artil
lery, continued to reach US from Geary
It was evident that formidable adver
\ sary had gathered around him and tha
he was batteriug him with all his might
For almost three hours, without assist
ance, he repelled the repeated attacks o
vastly superior numbers, and, in the end
drove them ingloriously from the field
At one time they had enveloped him OF
three sides, under circumstances tina
would have dismayed any officer excep
one endowed with an iron will and th'
most exalted courage" SUcu is TIL
CHARACTER OF GENERAL GEARY! =
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