page_title: Anthony Allaire
section_title: Military career
hierarchical_section_title: Anthony Allaire / Biography / Military career
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of NYPD police inspector Anthony J. Allaire while serving with the 133rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. Uploaded per request at en:WP:IFU.
context_page_description: Anthony J. Allaire was an American firefighter, drillmaster, and military and law enforcement officer. A longtime police inspector for the New York City Police Department, he was responsible for the breakup of numerous street gangs, most notably the Slaughter House Gang and the Dutch Mob, as well as the capture of murderer Daniel McFarland in 1869.
context_section_description: At the start of the American Civil War, the Board of Police Commissioners began plans to raise four regiments to send out to the front. Allaire was serving as drillmaster to a small group of men on Rikers Island and was one of the first to volunteer his services to the Union Army. He and his men were organized as Company E and incorporated into the 133rd New York Volunteer Infantry. Allaire was elected the company's captain and first commander.
  Allaire quickly rose in rank until his eventual appointment as lieutenant colonel of the regiment. He saw action at Port Hudson, Marksville Plains, Fort Bisland, Cross Roads and Vermillion as well as engagements along the Red River. During General Philip Sheridan's campaign against General Jubal Early in 1864, Allaire was placed in charge of guarding a Union pay train carrying $3 million in special back pay for Sheridan's troops and defended the train against Confederate guerillas. Allaire was mustered out June 6, 1865. On December 3, 1867, President Andrew Johnson nominated Allaire for the award of the grade of brevet brigadier general to rank from March 13, 1865, for "meritorious conduct on the field" and the U.S. Senate confirmed the award on February 14, 1868.
caption: Allaire while serving with the 133rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
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