Showing posts with label 15th US INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 15th US INF. Show all posts

Saturday, July 11, 2020

Death Of General George P. Buell.

General George Pearson Buell, Brevet Brigadier-General of the United States army, and Colonel of the 15th United States Infantry, died at his home near this city yesterday afternoon at 3:10 o'clock. He was born at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, October 4, 1833, and graduated from Norwich Military University, Vermont. He entered the volunteer service in December, 1861, as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 58th Indiana Infantry, was in all the battles of the western army, except the battle of Nashville, and rose to the rank of Brigadier-General of volunteers. Was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 29th United States Infantry on the 28th of June, 1866, and Colonel of the 15th United States Infantry March 20, 1879. He was breveted Brigadier-General, United States army, March 2, 1867, for long, faithful and most valuable services.

After the war General Buell was united in marriage to Miss Rochie Brien, only daughter of the late Judge John S. Brien, by Rev. Samuel D. Baldwin. General Buell leaves surviving him his wife and only son, Don Carlos Buell. General Buell was a gallant and faithful soldier, sterling patriot, a gentleman of high culture, a pure and good man, whose warm heart and generous disposition endeared him to all his acquaintances. He is a loss to the army and the nation. His deeply affected and distressed family have our sincerest sympathy and condolence.

SOURCE: John J. Hight, History of the Fifty-eighth Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry, p. 569

Monday, December 22, 2008

ATTENTION, SOLDIERS!!

WANTED – 100 able bodied men between the ages of 18 and 35 years, not less than 5 feet 3 inches high, of good moral character, for the 15th Regiment of the United States Infantry. The term of service for persons enlisting before January 1st, 1863, is three years unless sooner discharged. The regiment is commanded by superior Regular Army officers of known ability and experience, and the headquarters is at Newport Barracks, Ky.

Pay from $13 to $22 per month from date of enlistment, and $100 additional in cash, when honorably discharged from service.

The recruits will be well clothed and cared for under my personal supervision, and all necessary subsistence and rations supplied as soon as enlisted.

Recruiting rendezvous in Turner’s Law Office on Court Avenue, between 2nd & 3d streets, Des Moines, Iowa, where all required information will be given.

E. McBaron Timoney,
1st Lieut. 15th U.S. Infantry,
Recruiting Officer

April3d, dtf.

– Published in the Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, Sunday, April 13, 1862 & Saturday April 19, 1862