Stanton, Thaddeus Harlan, 1835-1900.
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Thaddeus Stanton (1835-1900) was a native of Indiana. In 1851 he moved to Iowa and briefly wrote for an abolitionist newspaper. He fought with John Brown in the Kansas Border War, joined a three-month regiment at the outbreak of the Civil War, and, after a short time in Iowa public office, organized and led the 19th Iowa Infantry. By 1862 Stanton had become paymaster general of the Union Army. After the war he traveled west and served as chief of scouts for General Crook, leading an attack on Crazy Horse at the Powder River in 1876 and participating in Little Bighorn. He was made a colonel in 1893 and became paymaster general of the United States in 1895. Stanton continued his military career through the end of the Spanish-American War and died in Nebraska in 1900.
Thaddeus H. Stanton was a United States Army major and paymaster.
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