John Randolph Lewis Brigadier General, United States Army |
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Randolph Lewis of Pennsylvania
Appointed from Vermont, Sergeant, Company H, 1st Vermont Volunteer Infantry, 2 May to 15 August 1861 Captain, 5th Vermont Volunteer Infantry, 16 September 1861 Major, 16 July 1862 Lieutenant Colonel, 6 October 1862 Colonel, 5 June 1864 Honorably mustered out, 11 September 1864 Colonel, Veteran Reserve Corps, 8 September 1864 Breveted Brigadier General, U. S. Volunteers, 13 March 1865 for gallant service in the Winderness, Virginia Honorably mustered out 31 March 1867 Major, 44th U. S. Infantry, 22 January1867 Unassigned, 15 March 1869 Retired with rank of Colonel, 28 April 1870 Breveted Lieutenant Colonel, 2 March 1867 for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of White Oak Swamp, Virginia Breveted Colonel, 2 Mrch 1867, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of the Wilderness, Virginia Died 8 February 1900
10 February 1900 General John R. Lewis, United States Army, retired, one of the best-known men in the Grand Army of the Republic and in Army circles, died suddenly in Chicago on Thursday. At the outbreak of the Civil War, General Lewis mustered a company of men known as the Fifth Vermont Volunteers, and was commissioned Captain. He was sent South ans rose to the rank of Brevet Brigadier General. He took part in the battle of the Wilderness, where he lost an arm. In 1872 he retired from active service in the Army and went South, settling in Atlanta. Taking up work there, he soon became identified with the public life of the city, and was appointed Postmaster. Recently he gave up life in the South and traveled in the West in search of health. He went to Chicago nine weeks ago. He was at that time ill, and, owing to his condition, but few of his Army friends knew of his presence in the city. He was born in Edinburg, Pennsyvlania in 1835. He leaves a wife, who, with a son, is in Dawson City on the Klondike, where they have resided for two years. The other son is detailed to West Point as an instructor. The funeral will probably he held at Arlington Cemetery, Washington, although the exact place will not be determine until definite worl is received from Lieutenant Lewis at West Point. NOTE: His son, Frederick
Worthington Lewis, Brigadier General, United States Army, is buried
nearby in Arlington National Cemetery.
LEWIS, JOHN R COLOENEL BR BRIG GEN USA DATE OF DEATH: 02/02/1900 BURIED AT: SECTION WS SITE 451 ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Posted: 31 July 2005 Updated: 6 August 2006 Updated: 8 October 2007 |
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