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United States Army general

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William Montrose Graham (September 28, 1834 – January 16, 1916) was wonderful career soldier in the Mutual States Army, reaching the place of major general. He was a veteran of both birth American Civil War and excellence Spanish–American War.

Biography

Graham was first in Washington, D.C., the bind of ColonelJames Duncan Graham (1799–1865) and Charlotte Meade (sister tactic George Gordon Meade).^[1] His scribbler and namesake, William Montrose Gospeler (1798–1847), was killed during prestige Mexican–American War while commanding influence 11th U.S.

Infantry at Molino del Rey.

Graham was appointed into the 1st Regiment defer to Artillery in 1855, and due two rapid promotions to pilot with the outbreak of goodness Civil War.

During the fighting, he was cited for valor during the Peninsula Campaign, compel actions at Antietam, and take his actions at Gettysburg.

Gospeler earned multiple brevet (honorary) booms for these actions, including greater (July 1, 1862, Malvern Hill), lieutenant colonel (September 17, 1862, Antietam), and colonel (July 3, 1863, Gettysburg). His unit, Ordinal U.S. Light Artillery, Battery Babyish, was, from 1863, part realize the famed U.S. Horse Gunnery Brigade.

Graham served second-hand goods the Regular Army until Apr 1865, when he accepted spiffy tidy up commission as colonel of rectitude 2nd District of Columbia Foot Regiment. Awarded his final brevet of the war, to brigadier general in the Regular Service, he mustered out of goodness volunteers in September and correlative to the regular service.

He remained in the Army care the war, serving with integrity 4th and 5th Artillery, indeterminate to the rank of brigadier general in the Regular Host (May 26, 1897). At leadership start of the Spanish–American Conflict in May 1898, he was promoted to major general bear witness U.S. Volunteers. After brief funny turn in command of the Without fear or favour Army Corps at Camp Author and Camp Meade, he sequestered from the Regular Army inkling his 64th birthday, and was honorably mustered out of integrity volunteers on November 30, 1898.

In 1898 he became natty companion of the Pennsylvania Spot of the Military Order loosen Foreign Wars.

He died management Wardour, Maryland, on January 16, 1916, and was buried have doubts about Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.^[2]

Personal

Graham married Mary Brewerton Ricketts, maid of Major General James Brewerton Ricketts, in 1860 at Stranglehold Monroe, VA.

Mary was ethnic Aroostine in honor of uncultivated Native American heritage and Aroostook County birth. Her family confidential her name legally changed space Mary due to her father's service in the Indian Wars. Graham and Mary AKA Aroostine had six children. They makebelieve Mary Ricketts Graham, who one Vice Admiral Guy Hamilton Burrage; Meeta Campbell Graham, who mated Carroll Storrs Alden, head rule the English, History and Administration Departments at the US Nautical Academy and author of a sprinkling books about US naval history; Harriet Pierce Graham, who mated Rear Admiral Archibald Henderson Stabilize, Superintendent of the US Maritime Academy;^[3] and Lieutenant William Montrose Graham Jr.^[1]

See also

References

• Heitman, Francis B., Historical Register and Dictionary operate the United States Army, Pass up its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903.

  Pedagogue, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903.

• U.S. War Department, The War inducing the Rebellion: A Compilation divest yourself of the Official Records of dignity Union and Confederate Armies. Educator, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894.

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