The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-07-23
DEATH OF
GEN. MINDIL
A Brave Soldier Well Known
IN M0riStown Answers
the Final Roll Cali.
YOUNGEST GENERAL OFFICER

Breyet Major General George w.
Mindil. twice medal OF honor man.
died Saturday at his home In Graham
Court, at 1l6th street and Seventh
avenue, New York. Worry over the
criticism of his work in the Custom
House in the valuation Of gems Is be-
lieved to have hastened his death.
Born in Frankfort, Germany, in
l843, of family of soldiers, and COM
ing to this country when six years old,
he entered the service at the age of
eighteen years as a second lieutenant.
Thereafter his record was long list
of gallant acts under fire, which twice
earned him the recognition of Con-
gress by the gift of the medal OF honor.
BY the time he had reached his ma
iority he was commanding officer of
the 9th and of the 33rd New Jersey,
the youngest man to receive a colon
elcy in this country. Besides his ser
vice as a field officer he also served on
the staff of General Mcclellan as as
sistant adjutant general throughout
the peninsular campaign.
While on the staff of General Philip
Kearny at Williamsburg, May 8, 1862,
he volunteered to lead battalion Of
the 10th New York in the final charge
Of the day, which seemed to be for
lorn hope, but which proved decisive
Of this conflict. He won the applause
of his commander, was extolled in the
official report of the battle and receiy-
ed gold medal for his bravery. He
remained with General Kearny, acting
as his chief of staff at the second Bull
Run fight, and was the only staff Of
ficer with him when that gallant gen.
eral was killed at Chantilly.
When only two months past nine
teen years, young Mindil was commits
stoned colonel Of the 9th New Jersey
Regiment, and he commanded bri-
gade of five regiments inthe 9th Army
Corps three months later Upon the
expiration of the term of enlistment
of this regiment, just prior to the Get
tysburg campaign, in the darkest hour
of the war, he volunteered his services
and those of his regiment during the
emergency in Pennsylvania, for which
he received the thanks of the Presi-
dent and Of the War Department. At
the personal request of President Lin=
coin he recruited the SD Regiment of
New Jersey Volunteers at Newark,
and in sixty days brought Them to the
front. This was fighting regiment
and greatly distinguished itself in the
West under General Sherman.
At Mill Greek Gap, near Dalton, Ga,
Mindil led the storming column of
three regiments. and received, at
,twenty-one years of age, the brevet
rank of major general for ''gallant and
meritorious services there and in the
battles of Mission Ridge and Chat
tanooga. He participated in the cam
paign to Atlanta, his command being
the first brigade organization to enter
that stronghold. He took part in
Sherman march to the sea" and in
the campaign through the Carolinas
northward to Washington.
General Mindil was twice married,
his first wife being Miss Elizabeth l..
Lippincott, of Philadelphia. His sec
ond wife,. whom he married about
twelve years ago. was Miss caroline B.
Schaefer, of Harrisburg. Two child
ren, both by his first wife, survive him
Philip Kearny Mindil and Mrs. S. Y.
Pang.
He had been member of the Union
League Club of Philadelphia for many
years, deacon of Christ Reformed
Church, of Philadelphia, member of
the Loyal Legion and Mason. The
burial will be in Arlington Cemetery,
Washington.