Baldwin, Frank Dwight, 1842-1923

Frank Baldwin (1842-1923) was born in Manchester (Mich.) and graduated from Hillsdale College and the Univ. of Mich. He enrolled in the Chandler Horse Guard in 1861, eventually rising to the rank of Maj. Gen. Frank received two Congressional Medals of Honor. Alice Blackwood Baldwin (1846- ) was the daughter of Thomas Blackwood and graduated from Albion Female Seminary. She married Frank in 1867. Alice wrote a biography of her husband. She died after 1929 in Santa Monica (Calif.), while visiting her daughter, Mrs. A.P.G. Williams-Foote, and was later buried besides her husband in Arlington Cemetery. (Information from the collection.) The Clarke Historical Library has copies of the Baldwins' books.

Francis Leonard Dwight Baldwin, (1842-1923), United States general, recipient of two Congressional Medals of Honor. During the Civil War, he served with 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry, taking part in the battle of Thompson's Station, Atlanta Campaign, Sherman's March to the Sea, and the campaigns of the Carolinas. In 1866 he entered the Regular Army and served as 2nd and then 1st Lieutenant of the 19th and 37th Regiments of U.S. Infantry before transferring to Col. Nelson A. Miles' 5th U.S. Infantry in 1869. From 1869 to 1889, he served in the West, taking part in the Red River War, the operations agains the Sioux (1876-1880), the Nez Perce (1877), the Apache (1886), the wars against the Sioux (1890-1891). He also was judge advocate of the Department of Columbia (from 1881 to November 1885) and investigated the Wounded Knee tragedy. From 1891 to October 1894 Baldwin was inspector of small arms practice for the Department of the Missouri, and then served as agent at the Anadarko Agency in Indian Territory. In 1900-1902, he served in the Philippines, first as Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th U.S. Infantry, and then Colonel of the 27th Infantry. In June 1902, he was promoted to Brigadier General, and in February 1903 appointed commander of the Department of the Colorado, a post he held until his retirement in 1906. During the World War I, he briefly left retirement to serve as Colorado's Adjutant General.