James Sanks Brisbin

Birth Date

1837-05-23

Death Date

1892-01-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Centre County, Pennsylvania, teacher, editor, and soldier. Pennsylvania native. Married to Mary "Jane" Brisbin. Father of Caroline Brisbin. Attended Boalsburg Academy. Editor in Centre County in 1860. Commissioned as second lieutenant in the First Dragoons in the U.S. Army on April 26, 1861. Served in the 6th U. S. Cavalry Regiment as captain from 1862 to 1863. Served in the 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry as colonel from March 1, 1864. Brevetted major general of U.S. Volunteers on May 2, 1865. Superintendent of U.S. Army troops in Kentucky in spring 1865. Mustered out of service on January 15, 1866.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 2, p. 383A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Centre County, p. 311-12.
"Brisbin, James, S.," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 1, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 378.
"Caroline Wade Leaverton (1863-1947)," Find A Grave, Memorial #39539809, accessed November 8, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39539809.
Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press), 45.

"James Sanks Brisbin Biographical Note," James Sanks Brisbin papers, 1850-1891, Archives West, Orbis Cascade Alliance, http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27706 (accessed January 29, 2018).
“MG James Sanks Brisbin (1837-1892),” Memorial #5892343, accessed June 5, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5892343.
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies ser. 1, vol. 49, pt. 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1890), 895.

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