The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-12
Lieut.. George w. kingsbury.

The San Francisco Bulletin has brief
sketches of the military commission ap.
pointed to try the Modoc murderers, and
among them, one quite complimentary to
Lieut. Kingsbury a native Of Chester
this state. whom many will remember
was an officer in the old 18th which saw
such hard service within week or two
after its muster into the L. s. eorvico.
1.-THE appointment of Second Lieutenant Geo.
w. hingsbury as member of the Commission is
handsome compliment to gallant soldier and
an accomplished gentleman. Lieutenant Kings
bury enlisted private soldier in the Sixteenth
Regiment Of Vermont Volunteers in 1862, and in
1864 was promoted to the position ofSecond Lieu
tenant. lie was with the First and Ninth Corps
in the Army of the Potomac, and served through
the second Maryland Campaign; was in the bat
tie of Gettysbuigh, and in Grants campaign of
"a and 60, which terminated in the fall of Rich
nond. AT the battle Of Spottsylvania Va he
received remarkably close call, ball passing
into his chest, through the left lung, and thence
to the spine, making its exit between the eighth
and ninth ribs. He was brevetted three times for
gallant and meritoriOus services on the battle
field of the Wilderness and Spottsylyania. Lieu
tenant kingsbury honorably discharged, for
wounds received, in October, 1864, and received
an appointment rs Second Lieutenant in the Vet
eran Reserved Corps. Twenty-thrd Regiment;
was placed in command of Company D.. and sta
toned at Jacksonville Indiana, where lie re-
manned until the fall of 1865. Next he served
as Adjutant at the mastering out camp of the
Wisconsin Volunteers, and subsequently he Joined
his regiment at Milwaukee. lie was assigned To
duty in the Freedncns' Bureau in the spring Of
1866, and served in Virginia, Kentucky and Ala
bama until the fall of 1860 lie was appointed
second sec Lieutenant in the regular army in May,
Oo, and joined his regiment, the Forty-third In.
fantry, in 1869. lie was afterward transferred
to the Twelfth Infantry, and in February. 1870
was assigned to duty at Camp Castor, Cal, where
he acted rs Post AdjutaDt Quartermaster and
Commissary until the Modoc troubles came. AT.
ter Colonel Wrights death, Lieutenant Kingsbury
assumed charge of Company i. Twelfth Infantry,
and retains the command. Though little less
than thrty-three years of ago, he is thoroughly
grounded in military matters and up)n the le.
gal questions arising during the trial his advice
will be of value. Lieutenant Kingsburv has been
Judge Advocate of the Court-Martial held in the
Held under General Davis orders IIo is by no
means a novice in military law. lie is trim.
light eomplexioncd benedict, and will kick the
beam at one hundred and twenty-five lie is the
junior member of the Commission"
The above account of this gallant ofic.
er is in the main correct, but there are
some inaccuracies of statement which
ought not to be perpetuated by the press
when they are liable to find their way in.
to historical records.
Lieut.. Kingsbury was member ofthe
Sixteenth Regiment of Vt. Vols. and serv.
ed his time out with that Regiment. In
April 1864 he was mustered into the
United States Service as I'd Lieutenant
Of Co. Of" 18th VT. Vol. With that
Regiment and Company he served until
May 10th Of that year, doing his duty
faithfully as a soldier through the battles
of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court
House. and while on duty as officer of
picket, and visiting his posts was shot
through the lungs by our own sentinel.
who in his watchiul alarm, it was
thought, did not wait sufficiently for the
answer to his challenge. Kingsbury did
not recover from this wound so as to be
able to rejoin his Company but Wis trans.
ferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps. He
was not brevetted, as stated in this arti.
Gle, though he richly merited promotion.
Alter his transfer TO the Reserve Corps,
which of course involved his discharge
from the 18th, he has been in the service
as above stated and is. no doubs, an eflic-
lent officer as well as a polished gentle
man.