CDV of Union General Charles P. Stone
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CDV of Union General Charles P. Stone:
$39.99
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CDV of Union General Charles P. Stone
Nice looking CDV of Union general Charles P. Stone with backmark reading \"J.E. McClees, Artist, 910 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.\" Bottom edges trimmed but in otherwise good shape with wear as shown.
From HDS:
Stone, Charles P., brigadier-general, was born in
Greenfield, Franklin county, Mass., in 1826. He entered the
United States military academy in 1841 and graduated in 1845,
when he was appointed a brevet second lieutenant of ordnance.
A month later he was appointed acting assistant professor of
ethics in the military academy, an office he held till Jan.,
1846, when he was ordered to duty in Mexico. He distinguished
himself in several battles under Gen. Scott, was brevetted
first lieutenant Sept. 8, 1847, for gallant and meritorious
conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey, captain five days
later for similar conduct at Chapultepec, and commissioned
first lieutenant in the regular army in Feb., 1853. In 1851
he was sent to California where he constructed the Benicia
arsenal and acted as chief of ordnance for the Pacific coast.
He resigned from the army in 1856, was engaged in the banking
business in San Francisco for a year and then undertook a
survey of Sonora and Lower California under a commission from
the Mexican president. Just before the inauguration of
President Lincoln, Mr. Holt, the secretary of war, called
Lieut. Stone to Washington, appointed him a captain in the
army and assigned him to the duty of inspector-general of all
the militia in the District of Columbia then organizing for
the protection of the national capital. On May 14, 1861, he
was appointed colonel of the 14th U. S. infantry and three
days later was made brigadier-general of volunteers. He
served in the Shenandoah valley under Gen. Patterson during
July, and when Gen. McClellan assumed command of the Army of
the Potomac, after the battle of Bull Run, Gen. Stone was
selected to command a division and directed to occupy the
valley of the Potomac above Washington as a corps of
observation. On Jan. 5, 1862, he appeared before the
Congressional committee on the conduct of the war and was
rigidly examined as to every detail of the battle of Ball\'s
bluff, which he had been accused of bringing on without due
preparation. His responses were given frankly and seemed to
satisfy the committee, but in February he was arrested and
imprisoned in Fort Lafayette, N. Y. harbor, where he was kept
in confinement for seven months without any charges having
been preferred against him, despite his appeals to Sec.
Stanton and President Lincoln for such a hearing as the
military code provided for every accused officer. After his
release he served in the siege of Port Hudson, was one of the
commissioners to receive its surrender, and as chief of staff
of Gen. Banks was engaged in the skirmish of Bayou Teche and
the battles of Sabine crossroads and Pleasant Hill in April,
1864. He was mustered out of the volunteer service the same
month and remained unemployed till August, when he was
assigned to the command of a brigade in the Army of the
Potomac, retaining it till after the surrender of Petersburg
and then resigning from the army. He was engineer and
superintendent of the Dover mining company of Virginia from
1865 to 1869, and in 1870 entered the service of the Khedive
of Egypt, becoming chief of the general staff or practically
commander-in-chief of the entire army. For his valuable
services in command, organization and administration he was
decorated commander of the Order of Osmanieh Oct. 10, 1870,
grand officer of the Order of Medjii Jan. 24, 1875, and raised
to the dignity of a pasha in 1878. Early in 1883 Gen. Stone
resigned his commission in the Egyptian service, returned to
the United States and was appointed engineer-in-chief of the
construction of the pedestal for Bartholdi\'s statue of Liberty
in the harbor of New York, which proved his last work. Gen.
Stone died in New York city, Jan. 24, 1887.
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CDV of Union General Charles P. Stone:
$39.99