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First Lt. Arthur Cranston, Sr.
Facts and Events
| Name |
First Lt. Arthur Cranston, Sr. |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2] |
Abt 1842 |
Brighton, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Military[2] |
25 Apr 1861 |
OhioPvt. 7th Ohio Infantry |
| Military[2] |
16 Oct 1861 |
Ohio2nd Lt., 55th Ohio Infantry |
| Military[2] |
15 Mar 1862 |
OhioResigned from Military |
| Military[2] |
1 Jul 1862 |
United States Military Academy Post Cemetery, West Point, Orange, New York, United StatesCadet |
| Military[2] |
17 Jun 1867 |
United States2nd Lt. 4th U. S. Artillery |
| Marriage |
1869 |
Washington, District of Columbia, United Statesto Mary Bacon |
| Military[2] |
30 Nov 1871 |
United States1st Lt. 4th U. S. Artillery |
| Death[2] |
26 Apr 1873 |
Siskiyou, California, United StatesKilled in Action Modoc War |
| Burial[1] |
Aft 27 Apr 1873 |
San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United StatesSan Francisco National Cemetery Also known as: Post Cemetery, Presidio Cemetery |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Arthur Cranston, in Find A Grave.
Photo and Biography of Arthur Cranston Sr., by Leon Edmund Basile added to site on 02 Feb 2008.
"Arthur Cranston was born in Brighton, Massachusetts, in 1842, but grew up in Ohio. He served in the 7th and 55th Ohio Infantry regiments in the early part of the Civil War, then, in 1862, he was appointed a cadet at the U.S.M.A., graduating there in 1867. This portrait (autographed) was taken by Charles D. Fredricks & Co., New York, when Cranston was a cadet. He married Mary Bacon in Washington, D.C., in 1869, and they had a son, Arthur junior, in 1871. (Arthur junior would serve as a lieutenant in the Spanish American War.) Mary B. Cranston married an Army surgeon, Dr. Fred C. Ainsworth, in Texas in 1881".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Massachusetts in the army and navy during the war of 1861-65. (Boston, 1895)
Vol. 2. Page 409.
Cranston, Arthur. Born in Massachusetts. Private, 7th Ohio Infantry, Apr, 25, 1861, to Aug. 22, 1861. Second Lieutenant, 55th Ohio Infantry, Oct. 16, 1861. Resigned, Mar. 15, 1862. Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1862. Second Lieutenant, 4th U. S. Artillery, June 17, 1867. First Lieutenant, Nov. 30, 1871. Killed in action with Modoc Indians at the Lava Beds, Cal., Apr. 26, 1873.
- Riddle, Jeff C. The Indian History of the Modoc War and the Causes that Led to It. (San Francisco, California: Marnell and Company, 1914)
Page 119.
There were 76 officers and men and also Donald McKay and his Warm Spring Scouts; Lieut. T. F. Wright, Lieut. A. B. Howe and First Lieut. Arthur Cranston. Captain Evan Thomas was also killed. Lieut. George M. Harris, dangerously wounded, died three days later on. Surgeon Semig, seriously wounded, leg amputated. A total of 27 killed and 17 wounded. These officers were killed on April 26th.
Telegram to: General Scofield, San Francisco, California.
From: Headquarters in the Field, Tule Lake, California, May 8, 1873.
I sent two friendly squaws into the Lava Beds day before yesterday. They returned yesterday, having found the bodies of Lieut. Cranston and other parties, but no Modocs…
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