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Civil War Soldiers - Curtis
| Curtis, N. Martin, brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in De Peyster, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., May 21,
1835, was educated in the common schools and at the Gouverneur, N. Y.,
Wesleyan seminary, and became prominent in local Democratic circles,
being postmaster in his home town 1857-61, and candidate for the
assembly in 1860. He enrolled a volunteer company, April 14, 1861, was
commissioned captain on May 7, and served with the Army of the
Potomac. He participated in the first battle of Bull Run, July 21,
1861 ; was severely wounded at West Point, Va., May 7, 1862; was
promoted lieutenant-colonel in Oct., 1862, and colonel of the 142nd N.
Y. volunteers in Jan., 1863, and was assigned to command a brigade in
June, 1864, after the battle of Cold Harbor, in which he had commanded
a brigade whose leader was killed in action. He advanced with his
brigade on Petersburg, June 15, 1864, and took part in all the
operations before Petersburg and Richmond until Dec. 5, when he was
assigned to the first expedition against Fort Fisher. For his services
at the capture of Fort Fisher in Jan., 1865, when he was several times
wounded, losing his left eye on account of one of the wounds, he was
promoted brigadier-general on the field, and thanked by the
legislature of New York state. He was brevetted major-general of
volunteers, March 13, 1865, and assigned to duty as chief of staff to
Gen. E. O. C. Ord; was given command of southwestern Virginia, with
headquarters at Lynchburg, July 1, 1865, and was mustered out there
Jan. 15, 1866. After the war Gen. Curtis was collector of customs;
special agent of the U. S. treasury department; member of the New York
assembly, 1884-90; and representative in Congress from 1891 to 1897.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Curtis, Samuel R., major-general, U.S.
Army, was born in Clinton county, N. Y., Feb. 3, 1807, was taken as a
child to Ohio, was graduated at West Point in 1831, and, after a year
in the army, resigned to take up civil engineering. He afterwards
studied law, became actively interested in state militia affairs, and,
having risen to colonel of Ohio militia in 1843, in 1846 was made
adjutant-general of Ohio for the special purpose of organizing the
state's quota for service in the Mexican war. He served in that war as
colonel of the 2nd Ohio volunteers, and while in charge of the army
stores at Camargo defeated an attempt made by Gen. Urrea to capture
the place, driving the Mexican general through the mountains to Ramos,
and thus opening communications with Gen. Taylor. He subsequently
served on the staff of Gen. Wool and, after the war, opened a law
office in Keokuk, Ia. While residing in Keokuk he was elected to
Congress, served two terms and part of a third, and then resigned, in
1861, to become colonel of the 2nd Iowa regiment. He was one of the
first officers to receive a commission, May 17, 1861, as
brigadier-general, and during the summer organized and had charge of a
camp of instruction at St. Louis. He commanded the district of
southwestern Missouri from Dec. 26, 1861, to Feb., 1862, and the Army
of the Southwest until Aug. of that year, defeating in a decisive
battle at Pea Ridge on March 6-8, 1862, a Confederate force commanded
by Gens. Price and McCulloch, for which action he was promoted
major-general of volunteers. He then marched over one thousand miles
through swamps and wilderness and captured Helena, Ark., which place
he held from July 14 to Aug. 29, 1862. He commanded the Department of
Missouri, 1862-63, and the Department of Kansas, 1864-65, being in
command at Fort Leavenworth in Oct., 1864, and aiding in the defeat
and pursuit of Gen. Price's army. He commanded the Department of the
Northwest from Feb. to July, 1865, and was United States Indian
commissioner during the latter part of that year. He was early
interested in the Pacific railroad, having presided over the
convention that met in Chicago in Sept., 1862, and was a commissioner
to examine the road in 1866. He died at Council Bluffs, Ia., Dec. 26,
1866.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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