George Alexander Forsyth served with the Eighth Illinois Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War. He saw action in all the major campaigns of the Army of the Potomac and fought in many cavalry actions in the Shenandoah Valley, where he served as aide-de-camp to Major General Philip Sheridan. After the war he received a commission in the regular army as a major in the Ninth U.S. Cavalry on July 28, 1866. In 1868 Forsyth raised a band of fifty frontiersmen to serve as scouts into Indian territory, leading this group to victory at the Battle of Beecher Island. He later served as military secretary to Lieutenant General Philip Sheridan (1869-1873) and as Sheridan's aide-de-camp (1878-1881). He received a promotion to lieutenant colonel of the Fourth U.S. Cavalry on June 26, 1881. Forsyth retired from the Army in March 1890 and was promoted to colonel on the Retired List in April 1904.
John B. Guthrie served with the First Kentucky Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, rising to the rank of second lieutenant. He was made a second lieutenant in the Thirteenth U.S. Infantry Regiment in 1866, a first lieutenant in 1871, and captain in 1882. He was promoted to major in the Fifteenth U.S. Infantry Regiment in 1898.
From the description of John B. Guthrie field notes, 1882, 1915. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 725508310
