New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-26
GENERAL EMORY,

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Augur relieves this distinguished soldier
from the command Of the Department OF
the Gulf. Brevet Major General W. H.
Emory was born in Maryland, and ap-
pointed from that State a cadet at the
Military Academy in 1926. He was at
tached to the Fourth Artillery as brevet
second lieutenant in 1881. During the
two years following he became acquainted
with the rebel element of the South by
being stationed at Charleston Larbor when
notification was threatened in South
Carolina. The attempt there made in
1888 to set the State government up in
opposition to and Independent of the
United States was promptly sup
pressed by the President. After an
Indian campaign, the General re-
signed his commission in 1886, and
became q civil engineer. In 1883 be was
reappointed in the army as first lieuten-
ant of engineers. in which corps he dis
tinguished himself as an able officer. In
the two years following 1874 he was en-
gagged on the survey of o boundary line
between the United States and the British
Provinces, and afterward participated in
the Mexican war. In 1916 no accompa-
MED General Kearney's expedition to Cali
fornia as the chief typographical engineer,
and was engaged in the combat at San
Pasqual, for which service he was brevet-
ted. At the battles of San Gabriel and
on the plains Of Mesa he commanded a
regiment of Maryland and District of Co.
lumbia volunteers. About that time he
declined an appointment as major of the
Third Dragons, preferring the engineer
service, and from 1S4S to 1853 he
was employed as astronomer for the
demarcation of the boundary line be-
tween California and Mexico, and as com
missioner to run the boundary, under the
Gadsen treaty of December 80, 1853, be-
tween the United States and Mexico. For
this service he was brevetted lieutenant
colonel. He was made a major of the
Second Cavalry in 1856. General Emory's
published reports of his typographical
work are among the most valuable of the
Of the engineer department; con-
the hardships endured in making
surveys, and the unsettled condition.
of the country they are remarkably
thorough and accurate.
At the outbreak of the Southern rebel
lion General Emory was lieutenant
colonel of the First Cavalry, and was in
command of the troops stationed at
Cobb, Smith and Washita, on
the Washita river, in the Indian
Territory. These troops be concentrated
at Fort Arbuckle, and retreated with them
in good order to Fort Leavenworth,
capturing in the meantime the
advance guard Of the rebel forces of
Texas sent out to cut off and demoralize
the troops of the United States. In 1852
be vas made Brigadier General of volun-
teers, and was given active command in
the Virginia campaigns Of the Army of the
Potomac. >In October of that year he
organized an infantry division in Balti-
That General Emory is no stranger to
the citizens of Louisiana is shown from |
he record, which says that he commanded
The defenses of New Orleans from De-
,ember, 1852, to July, 1863, engaging in the
attack on Port Hudson, the fight at Camp
Bisiand, the repulse of the enemy at
Lafourche Crossing, and of the rebels at
.onaldsonville. He fought on the. Red
campaign at Sabin Cross Roads, at