Person:Amos Eaton (1)

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Maj. Gen. Amos Beebe Eaton
b.12 May 1806 Catskill, Greene County, New York
d.21 Feb 1877 New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
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Name[1] Maj. Gen. Amos Beebe Eaton
Gender Male
Birth[1] 12 May 1806 Catskill, Greene County, New York
Marriage Abt 1831 (his 1st wife, her 2nd husband; 3 children)
to Elizabeth Selden
Marriage 1868 (his 2nd wife, her 2nd husband; no issue)
to Mary Isaacs Jerome
Death[1] 21 Feb 1877 New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
Burial[1] Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut

Civil War Union Brevet Major General. A West Point graduate, he served as a Lieutenant in the US Army Commissariat, 1834 to 1836 and in the Mexican American War. At the start of the Civil War in 1861, he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel assistant commissary general. His task was to create an effective supply system for the large number of troops entering the Union Army for the war. For his work provisioning and distributing supplies to the troops, he was promoted Brigadier General Commissary General of the subsistence bureau in Washington, D. C. He held the position of Commissary General for the entire war and for distinguished service was brevetted Major General of US Volunteers in March 1865. After the war, he remained in the Regular Army as Commissary General, until he retired in 1874. (From: Amos Beebe Eaton, taken from an unknown source)

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