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Civil War Soldiers - Barnard
| Barnard, John C., brigadier-general, was born in
Sheffield, Mass., May 19, 1815. In 1833 he was graduated at West
Point, standing second in a class of forty-three, and was from that
time until the outbreak of the Mexican war employed in various
engineering works, being promoted in the meantime to captain. In the
Mexican war he superintended the construction of the defenses of
Tampico, and surveyed the battle-fields about the city of Mexico. For
these services he was brevetted major, and in 1850 was appointed chief
of a scientific commission to survey the isthmus of Tehauntepec, his
report of this work being the first full topographical account of the
isthmus. From then until the outbreak of the Civil war he was engaged
in various important engineering works, with the exception of the
years 1855 and 1856, when he was superintendent of the military
academy at West Point. He was promoted major of engineers in 1858, and
at the outbreak of the Civil war served as chief engineer of the
Department of Washington and then as chief engineer to Gen. McDowell
in the first Bull Run campaign. In the Virginia peninsular campaign of
1862 he served as chief engineer of the Army of the Potomac with rank
of brigadier-general, and was later made chief engineer of the
defenses of Washington, being promoted to lieutenant-colonel of
engineers, March 31, 1863. He was on the staff of Gen. Grant in 1864
and at the close of the war was made colonel of the corps of engineers
and brevetted major-general, U. S. A. After the war he was a member of
various boards having charge of the fortifications and river and
harbor constructions. He was the author of a number of valuable works
on engineering subjects. Gen. Barnard died in Detroit, Mich., May 14,
1882.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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