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Civil War Soldiers - Hamilton
| Hamilton, Andrew J.,
brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born in Madison county, Ala., Jan.
28, 1815. He was for some years clerk of the circuit court of his
native county, moved to Texas in 1846 and practised law at Austin,
becoming attorney-general of the state and a Buchanan elector. He was
a representative in the 39th Congress, 1859-61, having been elected as
a Republican, opposed the secession of Texas in 1861 and removed
north. He was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862, and
in the same year was appointed by President Lincoln military governor
of Texas. He commanded the U. S. troops at Matamora. In 1865 he became
provisional governor of the state under appointment of President
Johnson, and in 1866 he became a justice of the supreme court of the
state. The same year he was delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists'
convention, and also delegate to the soldiers' convention held in
Pittsburg. He was an independent candidate for governor of Texas in
1869, but was defeated. Gen. Hamilton died in Austin, Tex., April 10,
1875. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Hamilton, Charles S., major-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Westernville, N. Y., Nov. 16, 1822. He was
graduated at the United States military academy in 1843, went to
Mexico in 1846 as 1st lieutenant in the army of occupation, was
brevetted captain for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco, and was
severely wounded at Molino del Rey. He subsequently served on frontier
duty until 1853, when he resigned his commission and engaged in
farming and milling at Fond du Lac, Wis., returning to the service of
the United States at the beginning of the Civil war as colonel of the
3d Wis. volunteers, May 11, 1861, and being promoted six days later to
brigadier-general. When Banks opposed the advance of "Stonewall"
Jackson in northern Virginia, Gen. Hamilton commanded the 1st
division. He was transferred to the Army of the Potomac in 1862 and
served in the operations of that year, including the siege of
Yorktown, receiving promotion to the rank of major-general of
volunteers Sept. 19, 1862. Being transferred to the Army of the
Mississippi, he commanded the 3d division at Iuka, Sept. 19, 1862, and
at Corinth on Oct. 3 and 4, and was then, until Jan., 1863, commander
of the left wing of the Army of the Tennessee. Resigning from the army
in April, 1863, he returned to Wisconsin, was member of the board of
regents of the University of Wisconsin, 1866-75, being president of
the board, 1869-75, and from 1869 to 1875 was United States marshal
for the district of Wisconsin. Gen. Hamilton died in Milwaukee, Wis.,
April 17, 1891.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Hamilton, Schuyler, major-general,
U.S. Army, was born in New York city, July 25, 1822. He was graduated
at West Point in 1841, entered the first infantry and served on the
plains and as assistant instructor in tactics at West Point. In the
Mexican war he served with conspicuous distinction, being brevetted
1st lieutenant for gallantry at Monterey, where he was severely
wounded, and captain for gallantry at Mil Flores, where in a
hand-to-hand encounter with Mexican lancers, he was wounded by a
lance, which passed entirely through his body. He was promoted 1st
lieutenant in March, 1848, was acting aide-de-camp to Gen. Scott from
1847 to 1854, and in 1855 resigned from the army. At the beginning of
the Civil war he reentered the national service, volunteering as a
private in the 7th regiment, N. Y. state militia, served for a time on
the staff of Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, and afterwards acted as military
secretary to Gen. Scott until the latter's retirement, being
instrumental in preventing the murder of certain Confederate prisoners
of war captured on the battle field of Bull Run. He was subsequently
assistant chief of staff to Gen. H. W. Halleck, with the rank of
colonel, was commissioned brigadier- general of volunteers on Nov. 12,
1861, and ordered to command the Department of St. Louis. He served
with Grant's army operating in western Kentucky and Tennessee,
suggested to Gen. Pope the cutting of a canal to turn the enemy's
position at Island No. 10, and commanded a division in the assault on
that island and New Madrid, for which he was promoted major-general of
volunteers on Sept. 17, 1862. He commanded the reserve at the battle
of Farmington. On Feb. 27, 1863, he was compelled to resign on account
of feeble health. After the war Gen. Hamilton made a number of
attempts to be reinstated on the army list as lieutenant-colonel and
colonel U. S. A., but was unsuccessful, and his friends have always
maintained that in neglecting to restore him to rank the government
was guilty of gross injustice to a brave and faithful officer. He was
hydrographic engineer for the department of docks, New York city,
1871-75. Gen. Hamilton died March 18, 1903.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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