Nelson Bowman Sweitzer Colonel, United States Army |
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Bowman Sweitzer of Pennsylvania
Appointed from Pennsylvania, Cadet, United States Military Academy, 1 July 1849 (24) Brevet Second Lieutenant, 2nd U. S. Dragoons, 1 July 1853 Second Lieutenant, 1st U. S. Dragoons, 25 July 1854 First Lieutenant, 3 September 1855 Captain, 7 May 1861 1st U. S. Cavalry, 3 August 1861 Lieutenant Colonel, Aide-de-Camp, 28 September 1861 Honorably mustered out as Aide-de-Camp, 31 March 1863 Colonel, 16th New York Volunteer Cavalry, 12 November 1864 Transfereed to the 3rd New York Provisional Cavalry, 23 June 1865 Honorably mustered out of the volunteer service, 21 September 1865 Major, 2nd U. S. Cavalry, 28 July 1866 Lieutenant Colonel, 8th U. S. Cavalry, 25 June 1877 Colonel, 2nd U. S. Cavalry, 9 January 1886 Retired 29 October 1888 Breveted Major, 1 July 1862, for gallant and meritorious service in the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia Breveted Lieutenant Colonel, 19 September 1864, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Winchester, Virginia Breveted Colonel, 13 March 1865, for distinguished gallantry in the battles of Yellow Tavern and Meadow Bridge, Virginia Breveted Brigadier General, U. S. Volunteers, 13 March 1865, for gallant and meritorious service during the war Died 7 march 1898 Nelson Bowman Sweitzer, a West Pointer, who was an aide-de-camp to McClellan and, most famously, commander of the regiment that tracked down and killed John Wilkes Booth. Nelson B. Sweitzer, as far as can be told,
had little to do with the capture of Booth, however. Lieutenant Edward
P. Doherty was assigned to lead a detachment of twenty-five men from
the Sixteenth New York Cavalry for the special assignment. They tracked
down Booth and David Herold to the barn on the Richard Garrett farm.
WASHINGTON, March 8, 1898 – General Nelson B. Sweitzer, United States Army, retired, died at Washington yesterday. He was a native of Pennsylvania and was graduated from West Point in the same class as McPherson, Schofield and Sheridan in the class of 1853. During the war he served gallantly as a Colonel of New York Cavalry regiments and was brevetted five times for meritorious services in the peninsula campaign in Virginia. He leaves a wife, two sons and a daughter.
SWEITZER, HELEN MCGREGOR W/O NELSON B
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