Letters : to George Baird / by Frank Dwight Baldwin, 1891.

Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925

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Miles was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, on his family's farm. He worked in Boston, read military history, and mastered military principles and techniques, including battle drills. Miles was working as a crockery store clerk in Boston when the American Civil War began. He entered the Union Army as a volunteer on September 9, 1861, and fought in many crucial battles. He became a lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel of t...

Butler, Edmond Borgia, 1896-

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Baldwin, Frank Dwight, 1842-1923

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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 ...

Whited, Patton G.

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Baird, George William, 1839-1906.

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Born in Milford, Connecticut in 1839, Baird attended Yale College until his junior year when he enlisted in the First Connecticut Light Battery in 1862. He served in the Civil War in South Carolina and Florida, and in March 1864, he was promoted to colonel and assigned to the command of the 32nd Regiment of U. S. Colored Troops. After the war he acccepted a commission as 2nd lieutenant and served in the Indian Wars in Kansas, New Mexico, Indian Territory, Texas and Montana until 1878, when he wa...