Carrington family papers. Correspondence, 1866-1912 [microform].
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Carrington, Henry Beebee, 1824-1912
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Early life Carrington was born in Wallingford, Connecticut. An ardent abolitionist in his youth, he was graduated from Yale University in 1845. He was professor of natural science and Greek at the Irving Institute in Tarrytown, New York from 1846 to 1847. Under the influence of the school's founder, Washington Irving, he subsequently wrote Battles of the American Revolution, which appeared in 1876. In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the...
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Henry Beebee Carrington was born in Wallingford, Conn. in 1824. He graduated from Yale in 1845 and Yale Law School in 1847. He practiced law in Ohio. During Civil War he was appointed colonel of the 18th U.S. Infantry (1861) and brigadier general (1862) and supervised military tribunals in Indiana and Ohio which were later ruled illegal. After the Civil War he established Fort Philip Kearney and led military campaigns against Sioux Indians and made a treaty with Flathead Indians. He wrote severa...
