The National tribune., 1906-01-11

MouiitdlIl, lOr Wnlcn ne received q
brevet of Colonel in the Regular Army.
He was promoted to. Major-General
Q. Volunteers, Aug. 81 1862, and was
assigned to command the left wing OF
the army in the siege of Port Hudson.
Later he was appointed President Of
the Military Commission at Washing
ton. ID. c., and to the command of the
Department of Washington and the
Twenty-second Corps. He received a
brevet of Brigadier- General i'm the Reg
ular Army for his services at Port Hud-
son and Of Major-General for services
during the war, and was retired in 1886
as Brigadier- GeneraI
Augur's First Brigade was command
ed by Col. Edward P. Chaplin, of Buff
falo, N. Y, and Colonel Of the 116th N
T., gallant and able officer, who was
killed during the siege.
The Second Brigade was commanded
by Brig.-Gen. Godfrey Weitzel, a fine
engineer officer, who was later to arise
to the rank Of Major-General COM
mandlng corps, and who was assigned
during the siege to command the right
wing, with provisional division being
made for him.
The Third Brigade was commanded
by Col. Nathan A. M. Dudley, Of the
30th Mass, and a Captain in the Regu-
lar Army. He rose to be Colonel Of
the 1st U. S. Cav, received brevets IN
the Regular Army for Baton Rouge.
Port Hudson and for meritorious ser
vices during the war, and was retired
as Colonel, Aug. 90, 1889.
The Second Division was commanded
by Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Sherman, a
man of more advanced years thar his
colleagues, as he had graduated from
West Point in 1896. He was Rhode
Island man, who had been commits
stoned In the artillery, was Captain
OF a battery which made smuch repIta-
ton in the Mexican War, where he re-
ceived brevet for ga1lantry at Buena
Vista, and was Major in the Sd u. S.
Art. at the opening of the rebellion.
He was promoted to Brigadier- General
Quoted very successful expedition to
Port Royal, Oct 21, 1861. He later
commanded division in the Army of
the Tennessee in the advance upon CO.
rinth, and was then assigned to the
command Of division in the Depart
ment of the Gulf He lost his right leg
during the siege, and did no more field
service. He was brevetted a Brigadier-
General. u. S. A., for Port Hudson and
Major-General OF Volunteers for SER
vices during the war. He was retired
with the rank Of Major-Genera Dec.
81, 1870, and died March 16, 1879.
Shermars First Brigade was COM
manded by Brig.-Gen. Neal Dow, who
had achieved eminence IS q Temper
ance reformer. He was wounded and
captured during the siege. /.
Sherman's Third Brigade was COM
Me-. who was promoted Ito Brigadier-
General.
The Third Division had been COM
manded by Brig.-Gen. William H. EN-
ory, and very capable Commander he
was. He was a Marylalnd man. and
OF 1891 and served during the Mexican
War in the Engineers. receiving two
brevets for conspicuous gallantry The
opening of the rebellion found him
Lieutenant-Colonel of the tst u. s. Cav.
Stung by unmerited suspfcions of his
loyalty, he rendered hfss resignation.
knew him felt that he was too valuable
a man to be lost, and they secured his
reappointment. He was commissioned
Brigadier-General Of Volunteers. March
II. 1862. and commanded brigade on
the peninsular Campaign receiving a
breyet of Colonel for Hanover Court
House, and was assigned 10 the division
intended for service i'm the Department
OF the Gulf I'm October, 1862 His
health broke down during the Teche
Campaign, and Gen. Banks put him in
leans. which was a loss to the army in
the field, but gain to the security Of
its principal position In the rear.
Brig Gen. William dwight COM
manded Emory's Division temporarily
and then succeeded to the command of
Sherman's He had been q cadet at
West Point from 1849 to 1853, and en-
tered the army as the Iieutenant-Colo-
mel OF the 10th N. Y, became Colonel
ana was promoted to Brigadier- Gen.
eral. Nov. 29. 1852. He was a man of
much firmness and decision OF charac-
ter. and did good work on the Teche
Campaign as afterward. Banks had is
sued a very stringent order against
plundering. While in the Teche coun-
try Dwight. then distant from the main
column. caught membeE of the 1s1st
N. 7. absent from his regiment with
strong circumstantiai evidence that he
had been engaged in The nefarious
work. Dwight did not bother to call
a court-martial or to conmunicate with
the commanding General but ordered
the man shot to death III front OF his
brigade at sunset. an action which
caused a great deal OF comment I'm the
army but which Banks afterward sus-
tained. The division was assigned per-
manently to Brig.-Gen. Halbert E.
Paine, Wisconsin man, who had been
Colonel Of the 4th Wis. Cav, and pro-
NOTED to Brigadier- General He was
severely wounded during the siege and
lost a leg.
The First Brigade was commanded
by Col. Timothy Ingraf1am. Of the 3sth
Mass. who was brevettedFa Brigadier-
General.
The Second Brigade, was commanded
by Col. Hawkes. Fearing. Colonel of the
Sth N II.
The Third Brigade was commanded
by Col. Oliver p. Gooding. Colonel OF
the 31st Mass.
The Fourth Division was command
ed by Brighten. Cuvier Grover, a
Maine man. who graduated from West
Point the fourth in the class OF 1850,
and was appointed to the artillery. The
outbreak Of the rebellion found him a
Captain in the 10th U. s.. and he was
appointed Brigadier-GeHeral OF Vol
unteers. April IA, 1869. He command
ed brigade on the Peinsular Cam
paign. and received hrdvets for Will
liamsburg and Fair Oaks, He was sent
to the Department of the Gulf in De-
cember. 1862, and assigned to the COM
mand Of division in the Nineteenth
Corps. which he retained throughout
the siege, the Red River Campaig the
next year and the opefations in the
Shenandoah Valley, receiving a brevet
OF Major-General OF Volunteers for
Winchester and Fishats Hill and Brig
ad!er-General,. us, A.. for Cedar
Creek. and~Major- Generai,s u. S. A., for
services during the war. He died June
6, 1856. n
3 Hts First Brigade was commanded
by Col. Richard sE. Holcomb. OF the 1st
La. who was killed during the siege.