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Civil War Soldiers - Howe
| Howe, Albion P., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Standish, Me., March 13, 1818. He was graduated
at West Point in 1841 and entered the 4th artillery, was teacher of
mathematics at the military academy from 1843 to 1846, and then served
in the Mexican war, winning the brevet of captain for gallant and
meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco. He
became captain in 1855 and subsequently received promotions to the
rank of brigadier-general U. S. A., which he received in 1882, the
year in which he was retired. He was chief of artillery in McClellan's
army in western Virginia in 1861 and commanded a brigade of light
artillery in the Army of the Potomac in the Peninsular campaign of
1862. He became brigadier-general of volunteers, June 11, 1862,
commanding at first a brigade in Couch's division, 4th army corps, and
took part in the battles of Malvern hill, Manassas, South mountain,
Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg, and from 1864- 66 commanded
the artillery depot, Washington, D. C. He was given the brevet ranks
of brigadier-general and major-general U. S. A., March 13, 1865,
having previously been awarded the intervening brevets and on July 13,
1865, was brevetted major-general of volunteers. After the war he
served in the bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands, and
subsequently in command of various posts until retired. He died in
Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 25, 1897. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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