The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-12-20


GEN. REyHOTDs. vet Second Lieutenant.
Among the members Of
his class that afterward became famous in the
Union history OF the rebellion were Gen. u. :.
Grant, Gen William b. Franklin, Gen. John J.
Peck. Gen. G. C. Augur, Gen. Fred. Steele aud
Gen. Rufus ingalls,, all OF them but the latter
being army or corps commanders.
he took part in the military occupation Of
Texas In lo45, g. and in the latter year, be-
ing promoted % the 81 ART. he was detailed as
Professor Of Philosophy 70 West Point, where
be served until 1855, meantime being pr5lgt-
al 20 Firs. Lieutenant I'D March, 1871. Alter
leaving dEfv at the Military Academy he serv-
"a on the frontier i0r year, but, firing Of the
rontiue ct Army life in tine OF peace, resigned
in February I-5l. 60 become Professor Of Me-
ChauiCs aud Engineering iu Washington nj
Versity. SGT Louis.
Rasieniuz his profess1rship IN 1859. he re-
turned % his old home At Lafayette Ind TO
enter into business rs a merchant, and he was
thus engaged when the rebellion broke out.
rendering his services 10 Gov. Morton, he was
al once placed IN command Of Camp Morton,
st Indianapolis; bat April ., 1861, he was
made Colonel OF the 10th Ind. and May 10
Brigadier-General Of Indiana troops. 4 week
later he was appointed Brigadier-General of
volunteers and ordered 70 West Virginia. where
he served IN command OF the Cheat Mountain
District, taking part in a number Of minor
affairs and the action at Green Brier River in
October, 1861
His services were needed at home in Indiana.
aud Jan. %, 1852, he resigned as Brigadier to
assist in organizing Indiana volunteers, serv-
ing without commission until Aug. q, 1862,
when he was made Colonel of the 18th Ind In
less than a month later Sept. Il, 1862 Presi-
Gent Lincoln specially appointed him again as
BrigadIeT- General OF volunteers, comforting the
commission for his distinguished services the
year before in West Virginia.
lie was al once sent TO the Army Of the
Cumberland, and took prominent part in the
campaign of 1862, 3 under Gen. Buell. and Gen.
Rosecrans and was in the meanwhile Nov.
%, le62, promoted to Major-General, accepting
the appointment Feb. 2, 1863. At the battles
Of HoOVers Gap, Tenn, June % 1868. aud
Chlckamauga he commanded division; aud
early IN October succeeded the late President
Garfield rs Chief Of StaH 70 Gen. Rosecrans,
and continued IN the same capacity with Gen.
George ii. Thomas until the following Deem
Der. For Eailantry at the battles OF Chicka-
manga and Missionary Ridge he was afterward
brevetted Brigsdier and MajoT-GeAeraI in the
Regular Army.
From January to June, 1861, he commanded
the defenses Of New Orleans, and was next
engaged until August in commanding the
Ainefeenth Corps aud in organizing the forces
that laid siege to and captured Forts Gaines
and Morgan, in Mobile BAY. lie next con-
manded on the Mississippi from Mcmphis TO
tie Passes at the mouth until Nov. % 1854
when he assumed command of the Seventh
Corps and the Department of Arkansas, which
be retained Hntll April, l-t6, the Seventh
Corps being disbanded and mustered ont Of
service Aug. -, 1860, and he was mustered out
Of the volunteers sept !, 1856.
In the same month he accepted the CoI0ueicv
Of the 18Th u S Inf, which had been formed
from the ID battalion Of the 18th InE when
The Regular Army was increased and the fol-
--s-r a 81
Grauae frontier. Subsequently De was ussig ned
70 duty-With bis brevet 81 Aai0r-Ccueral IN the
Army. In command of the Department Of Texas.
and throughout the recouE. rurtiUu times was
Military Governor Of that state. his admiais-
tration az aGaiFs there not only won him the
strong ressrd of The Union men resident in the
State, hnt TIE respect Of the rebel element, and
had he been ambitions for political preferment.
could easily have been elected u. ). Senator
from Texas
When The Army was reorganized and re-
dUCad in 1853 %. he was finally assigned as
Colonel Of the % Cav and held that rank
when he WAS retired June % 1871 for dis
ability, although for mos Of the time be had
been continued in command Of a department
under his assignment by his breVet rank.
Mrs. Reynolds was member Of the family of
Bainbridaes, which has given so many distin-
guishcd members 10 the service and her eldest
son, now the senior First Lieutenant in the Sd
CIV. his fathers old regiment) is named Balm
bridge Reynolds
Gen. Henry Van Ness Boyntoa is the senior
veteran Of The war among The newspaper cor
respondents here, and has a gallant record as
one q the Ohio soldiers Of the rebellion. He
was born July p. 1885, IN Berkshire Co, Mass,
but removed With his fathers family to Cincin-
matt ln 1856, aud attended the public schools
There uutii entering the Kentucky Military
Academy ~ Lexington. where he graduated IN
l1J- with such distinguished standing that IN