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Civil War Soldiers - Burns
| Burns, William W., brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was
born in Coshocton, Ohio, Sept. 3, 1825, was graduated at West Point in
1847, and joined the 3d infantry. He served throughout the war with
Mexico, and, after ten years of frontier, garrison and recruiting
duty, was given a staff appointment as captain and commissary of
subsistence. His experience in the supply department led to his
appointment for similar duties of an important nature during the Civil
war. He served with the Army of the Potomac, was wounded at Savage
Station, June 29, 1862, and was in the field with the Army of the
Potomac up to and including the battle of Fredericksburg. He was then
appointed chief commissary of the Department of the Northwest, and
subsequently, during the closing years of the war, was in charge
successively of commissary departments of the Carolinas, Georgia,
Florida, and finally of the entire south. After the war he was on duty
at Washington. He was brevetted brigadier- general, U. S. A., March
13, 1865.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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