James Barnet Fry

Birth Date

1827-02-22

Death Date

1894-07-11

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Illinois soldier. Carrollton, Illinois, native. Married to Caroline Fry. Graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1847. Served garrison duty during the U.S.-Mexican War. Adjutant of the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1854 to 1859. Chief of staff for General Irvin McDowell and General Don Carlos Buell. Provost marshal general of the United States from November 1862 to August 1866. Brevet major general of the United States Army.

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988), 162-63.
"James Barnet Fry" in Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 2, p. 557.

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