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Samuel Breck (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S. Army))

b. 1834-02-25 d. 1918-02-23

About

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.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

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.

Citation

Breck, Samuel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201140 (November 12, 2026).

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The people, organizations, and places listed below appear in the same documents as Samuel Breck (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S. Army)). They are sorted by the number of documents they share.

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Edward D. Townsend, Special Orders, No. 496
1863-11-07
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Edward D. Townsend, Special Orders, No. 528
1863-11-28
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William A. Nichols, Special Orders, No. 173
1865-04-17
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William A. Nichols, Special Orders, No. 203
1865-05-03
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William A. Nichols, Special Orders, No. 8
1865-01-06

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