Samuel Breck

Birth Date

1834-02-25

Death Date

1918-02-23

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Massachusetts soldier. Middlesborough, Massachusetts, native. Married to Caroline Juliet Breck. Father of Samuel J. Breck. Graduate of United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, on July 1, 1855. Served in the Third Seminole War. Professor of geography, history and ethics at West Point Academy in New York. Served in the 1st United States Artillery as first lieutenant and captain from 1861 to 1862. Served in the U. S. Army under General Irvin McDowell as assistant adjutant general on November 29, 1861. Brevetted brigadier general on March 13, 1865.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, California, San Francisco County, San Francisco, Ward 8, p. 189.
John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 1 (New York: Appleton, 1889), 364.
James Lorenzo Bowen, "Brevet Brigadier General Samuel Breck," Massachusetts in the War, 1861-1865 (Springfield, Massachusetts: Clark W. Bryan and Company, 1889), p. 888–90.

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