Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1831, Sept.29 | Born, Gerry, N.Y. |
| 1843 | Moved to Illinois |
| 1853 | Graduated, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
| 1853-1855 | Stationed at Fort Moultrie, S.C., and Fort Capron, Fla. |
| 1855-1860 | Assistant professor of natural and experimental philosophy, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
| 1857 | Married Harriet Bartlett (died 1888) |
| 1860-1861 | Professor of physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. |
| 1861 | Major in First Missouri Infantry (Union) Chief of staff to General Nathaniel Lyon |
| 1861-1862 | Commander, Missouri Enrolled Militia |
| 1862-1863 | Commander, Army of the Frontier |
| 1863 | Commander, Third Division, Fourteenth Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland Commander, Department of Missouri |
| 1864 | Commander, Twenty-third Army Corps and Army of the Ohio |
| 1865 | Commander, Department of North Carolina |
| 1865-1866 | Confidential agent in France on behalf of Department of State |
| 1866-1867 | Commander, Department of the Potomac |
| 1867-1868 | Commander, First Military District (Virginia) |
| 1868-1869 | Secretary of war |
| 1869 | Commander, Department of the Missouri |
| 1870 | Commander, Division of the Pacific (included Department of Arizona) |
| 1872-1873 | Participant, military survey of the Hawaiian Islands |
| 1876-1881 | Superintendent, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
| 1878 | President, board reviewing 1862 court-martial case of General Fitz-John Porter |
| 1882 | Commander, Division of the Pacific |
| 1883 | Commander, Division of the Missouri |
| 1886 | Commander, Division of the Atlantic |
| 1888-1895 | Commanding general of the United States Army |
| 1891 | Married Georgia W. Kilbourne (died 1927) |
| 1892 | Awarded Medal of Honor |
| 1895 | Commissioned lieutenant general Retired from the army |
| 1897 | Published Forty-six Years in the Army. New York, Century Co. |
| 1906, Mar. 4 | Died, St. Augustine, Fla. |