Autograph General Rufus Ingalls

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(1818-93) Graduated in the West Point class of 1843, and was commissioned 2nd lieutenant in the Mounted Rifles, and later in the 1st Dragoons. He was awarded the brevet of 1st lieutenant for his service during the Mexican War. At the beginning of the Civil War, Ingalls was appointed Chief Quarter Master of the Army of the Potomac. He served successively under Generals' McClellan, Burnside, Hooker and Meade, rendering outstanding service to each of them in this position of great importance, a task which...  

Autograph Surgeon Charles H. Alden

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(1836-1906) Alden was an 1856 graduate of Brown University and received his medical degree from Pennsylvania Medical College in 1858. In 1859, he passed the examination for the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army, and was immediately employed to accompany recruits to Fort Defiance where he participated in a campaign against the Navajo Indians. On June 23, 1860, he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army Medical Staff.

At the outbreak of the Civil War he was captured together with the greater part of the 7th U.S....  

Autograph General John T. Averill

(1825-89) Served as a member of the Minnesota State Senate, 1858-60. Averill began his Civil War military career, when he enlisted on August 22, 1862, and was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 6th Minnesota Infantry. Upon the news of the Indian uprising in Minnesota, Averill was sent to Fort Ridgely in command of 4 companies of the regiment. Going into camp at Birch Coolie, they were attacked by 500 Indians about 4 o'clock the next morning. The engagement was brisk until 10 o'clock, when the Indians ceased firing. The attack was renewed and on the...  

Autograph General Richard Arnold

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(1828-82) Descending from an old New England family which included the notorious Benedict Arnold, he was the son of a Rhode Island governor and U.S. Congressman. He graduated in the West Point class of 1850. As a captain of the 5th U.S. Artillery, he commanded a battery at 1st Bull Run and lost all his guns while covering the panic stricken retreat of the Union army. During the Peninsular campaign, he was chief of artillery of Gen. Franklin's division, and was brevetted for gallantry at Savage's Station. In...  

Autograph General Romeyn B. Ayres

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(1825-88) Graduated from West Point in 1847. He served in garrison duty at Puebla and Mexico City and was captain of the 5th U.S. Artillery at the start of the Civil War. He commanded a battery at 1st Bull Run and served with the Army of the Potomac until Lee's surrender at Appomattox. His gallant leadership as an artillery commander was noteworthy during the battles of Antietam and Fredericksburg and as a brigade and division commander at Chancellorsville, and from Gettysburg to Appomattox. By war's end he had been...  

Autograph General William W. Averell

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(1832-1900) Graduated from West Point in 1855. His pre war army career included garrison duty at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., a tour at the Cavalry School in Carlisle, Pa., and two years of rugged service fighting the western Indians, during which time he was severely wounded and put out of action from 1859 until the outbreak of the Civil War. He took part in the 1st battle of Bull Run and was commissioned colonel of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry. He fought in the Peninsular campaign, at Antietam and Fredericksburg, and in various...  

Autograph General Christopher C. Augur

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(1821-1885) Graduated in the West Point class of 1843 which furnished ten general officers to the North and three to the South. He was a Mexican War veteran and later became commandant of cadets at West Point. His first active field command during the Civil War was on the line of the Rappahannock during the Peninsular campaign. Augur was one of several professional soldiers victimized by General N. P. Banks's poor showing at Cedar Mountain and was severely wounded in the Federal rout. Banks asked for him as second in...  

Autograph Admiral John J. Almy

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He captured the Confederate spy Belle Boyd!

(1815-95) Rear Admiral Almy's career was one of considerable length and he certainly had his share of excitement and thrilling experiences on the high seas in both the Mexican and Civil Wars. He began his naval life at age 14 as a Midshipman beginning as an apprentice on the U.S.S. Concord in 1830. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, on April 24, 1815, he lost his parents while still a boy and the Navy was really the only home he ever knew for many years. He rose through...  

Autograph General John Jacob Astor, Jr.

(1822-90) Born in New York City, he was the wealthiest member of the Astor family in his generation. Attended Columbia University, and Harvard Law School. During the Civil War he served as an aide-de-camp on the staff of General General George B. McClellan with the rank of colonel. He was brevetted brigadier general for his services during the 1862 Virginia Peninsular campaign. A capitalist and philanthropist, he dabbled in railroad investment, but his principal business interest was the vast Astor Estate real estate holdings in New York...  

Autograph, General Alexander S. Asboth

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(1811-68) He served as chief of staff of General John C. Fremont in 1861. Appointed brigadier general on March 21, 1862, he was wounded while in command of a division at the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas. In 1863, he was in command at Columbus, Ky., and later the District of West Florida. In 1864, at the battle of Marianna, he was badly wounded in the left cheek bone and the left arm. He was appointed U.S. Minister to the Argentine Republic and Uruguay in 1866.

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Autograph, General Christopher C. Andrews

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(1829-1922) A lawyer by occupation, he became a member of the Minnesota state senate in 1859. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as a private, but soon after was commissioned captain of the 3rd Minnesota Infantry. Taken prisoner near Murfreesboro, Tenn., in July 1862, he was exchanged in October of that year. He was promoted to colonel of the 3rd Minnesota Infantry, and commanded the regiment in the 1863 Arkansas campaign, and on January 5, 1864, was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers. He...  

Autograph, Colonel Cornelius G. Attwood

25th Massachusetts Infantry, wounded at Cold Harbor, Va. in 1864

(1836-88) A native of Massachusetts, he was a clerk before the war. He was commissioned second lieutenant of Co. D, 3rd Massachusetts Rifles on May 19, 1861, a 90 days unit. Attwood was commissioned captain of Co. C, 25th Massachusetts Infantry, on October 12, 1861. He and the regiment fought in the battle of Roanoke Island on February 8, 1862, and in the battle of New Berne, on March 14, 1862. Promoted to major on October 29, 1862, he fought at Drury's Bluff, May 14-16, 1864,...