Asa P . Blunt Asa Peabody Blunt ( October 19 , 1826 – October 4 , 1889 ) was a draughtsman and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Early life . Blunt was born in Danville , Vermont . In 1850 , Asa and his wife Mary were living in Southampton , New York , where he was an overseer in a cotton mill . By 1860 , they were living in St . Johnsbury , Vermont . Blunt was a draughtsman for Erastus and Thaddeus Fairbanks . Civil War . Blunt was appointed adjutant , 3rd Vermont Infantry , on June 6 , 1861 , and was mustered into Federal service on July 16 . On September 25 , he was promoted to lieutenant colonel , 6th Vermont Infantry , and then Colonel of the 12th Vermont Infantry on September 19 , 1862 . On October 27 , the 2nd Vermont Brigade was formed from the 12th , 13th , 14th , 15th , and 16th , Vermont Infantry regiments , and Blunt assumed temporary command of the brigade as the ranking colonel , filling this position until December 7 , when Brigadier General Edwin H . Stoughton arrived and assumed command . Stoughton was not popular with the officers and men of the brigade , so when he was captured by Confederate partisan John S . Mosby on March 9 , 1863 , few mourned his loss . Colonel Blunt assumed command of the brigade again , turning it over to the new brigade commander , Brigadier General George J . Stannard , on April 20 . By the end of June , most of the brigade was waiting to muster out , their nine months obligation ended . But Robert E . Lee ' s incursion into Pennsylvania delayed that for a few weeks , and the brigade finally got to see some action . Blunt ' s 12th and the 15th regiments , however , were left behind in Emmitsburg , Maryland , guarding the supply trains , and were not able to participate in the brigade ' s flanking movement that helped stop Pickett ' s Charge on July 3 at the Battle of Gettysburg . On July 4 , Blunt ' s regiment was released to return to Vermont , and he mustered out with the regiment on July 14 , 1863 . Just more than six months later , On February 24 , 1864 , Blunt was appointed Captain and Assistant Quartermaster , Volunteers , and was ordered to report to the Commanding General , Department of Virginia and North Carolina , for duty in the Quartermaster ' s Department , which duties he assumed on April 25 . He became the Depot Quartermaster for the Army of the James on May 4 , 1864 , and served in this position until late 1865 . On March 13 , he was rewarded for his meritorious service at the Battle at Lee ' s Mills and Savage ' s Station with a brevet promotion to brigadier general . He also received brevet ranks of major , lieutenant colonel and colonel , Quartermaster ' s Department , on June 9 . Postwar life . On July 14 , he was transferred to Fort Monroe , remaining there until July 1866 . In late August , he was transferred to the position of Chief of Quartermaster Department of the Potomac . He received a Regular Army commission as Captain and Assistant Quartermaster on March 28 , and the same day , brevets to major and lieutenant colonel . On April 5 , 1867 , he was ordered to duty in connection with the National Cemeteries in the valleys of the James and Appomattox rivers and south of Richmond , and on April 11 appointed Chief Quartermaster , First Military District , with headquarters in Richmond . He was later ordered to Washington , D . C . , and placed in charge of Lincoln Depot and the various National Cemeteries in the Department of Washington . By March 1 , 1869 , he was Department Quartermaster in Charleston , South Carolina . Between 1877 and 1888 General Blunt was Commandant of the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas . He died on October 4 , 1889 , and is buried in Pine Grove Cemetery , Manchester , New Hampshire .