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See also: American soldier, was See also: born at Busti, in See also: Chautauqua county, New See also: York, on the 8th of See also: August 1822
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He graduated at West Point in 1846, served as second See also: lieutenant with the Mormon See also: battalion in California during the Mexican War, and became a captain in 1855
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In See also: February 1861, while in command of Fort See also: Brown,
See also: Texas, he disregarded the orders of his See also: superior officer, Major-General D
.
E
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Twiggs, to surrender to the Confederate forces, and escaped with the garrison
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He served on McClellan's staff during the West Virginia See also: campaign, and was commissioned brigadier-general of See also: volunteers and appointed chief of cavalry of the Army of the See also: Potomac in August 1861, in which capacity he took See also: part in the Peninsula campaign and the Seven Days' See also: Battle
.
He commanded the III. corps in the Fredericksburg campaign; and was promoted, in See also: November 1862, to be major-general of volunteers
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During the See also: Chancellorsville campaign he made an unsuccessful cavalry See also: raid toward See also: Richmond
.
In the early months of 1864 he commanded the See also: XXIII. corps, and then, as See also: commander of the cavalry of the department of the See also: Ohio, took part in the See also: Atlanta campaign
.
While attempting to seize the Confederate prison at See also: Andersonville (See also: July 31, 1864), he was captured at See also: Clinton, See also: Georgia
.
After his See also: release in See also: October he commanded cavalry in See also: East See also: Tennessee, making successful raids into Virginia and See also: North Carolina, and on the 12th of See also: April 1865 defeated a Confederate force near See also: Salisbury, North Carolina, and captured a large number of prisoners
.
After-See also: ward he held commands in Tennessee and Virginia until 1868
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He was mustered out of the volunteer service in See also: September 1866, but served in the See also: regular army as colonel and brevetmajor-general till 1871
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He then removed to California, was elected governor by the Democrats, and served from 1883 to 1887
.
In February 1891 he was made a colonel on the retired See also: list, U.S
.
Army, and on the 5th of September 1894 died at See also: Buffalo, New York
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