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Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri Thomas H. Leas (Pennsylvania, soldier (U.S.A.)) N00007402 1830? Categories: People

Pennsylvania, soldier. Adams County, Pennsylvania, native. Served in the 11th New York Infantry (U.S.A.) from October 23, 1860, to September 26, 1863. Served as 1st sergeant and 2nd lieutenant in the 95th New York Infantry (U.S.A.) from September 26, 1863 to July 16, 1865.

Relationships Military: Alexander Hamilton Bowman (West Point, colonel, superintendent (U.S.A.)) Military: James B. McPherson (Union General )

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of New York, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M233, Roll 25. James B. McPherson (Union General ) N00007395 1828-11-14 1864-07-22 Categories: People

Sandusky County, Ohio, native. Graduate of West Point in 1849. Served as aide-de-camp, brigadier general, major general in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1849 to 1864. Instructor of practical engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1849. Died at the battle of Atlanta on July 22, 1864.

Jeff Wallenfeldt, ed., The American Civil War and Reconstruction: People, Politics, and Power (New York: Britannica Educational Publishing, 2010), 144. Find A Grave, "James Birdseye McPherson (November 14, 1828 - July 22, 1864)," Memorial #4423, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4423 (accessed June 22, 2017). Margaret E. Wagner, Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkelman, eds., The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference (New York: Grad Central Press, 2002), 416-417. Alexander Hamilton Bowman (West Point, colonel, superintendent (U.S.A.)) N00007399 1803-03-30 1865-11-11 Categories: People

West Point, New York, soldier and engineer. Pennsylvania native. Son of Samuel Bowman. Married to Mary Louise Bowman. Father of Mary Ellen Bowman, Eulalie Bowman, Louisa Bowman, Eliza Chase Bowman, Alexander Bowman. Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1825. Served as private, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, captain, major, and colonel in the United States Corps of Engineers from 1825 to 1865. Professor of geography, history, and ethics at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point in 1825. Captain of West Point engineers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1850. Employed Margaret Welch in Charleston in 1850. Instructor of practical military engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from 1851 to 1852. Major of engineers in Luzerne, Pennsylvania, from 1857 to 1860. Employed Jacob Maun, Jane McFarlane, Margaret Riley in Luzerne in 1860. Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy and colonel of engineers in West Point from March 1, 1861, to July 8, 1864.

Relationships Military: James B. McPherson (Union General )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, South Carolina, Charleston County, St. Andrews, p. 371B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Pennsylvanie, Luzerne County, Wilkes Barre, p. 1079-1080. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398. Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 Vol. 1, p. 339. St. Louis, Missouri P00003268 Categories: Places

City in east-central Missouri. Located on the Mississippi River.

38.627, -90.1994 USGS: Earth Explorer, "St. Louis, Missouri," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on May 4, 2020). Boston, Massachusetts P00000524 Categories: Places

Capital of Massachusetts. Seat of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Located on the Atlantic Ocean.

42.3601, -71.0589 Matt Stefon et al., "Massachusetts" in Encyclopedia Britannic, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Boston/Administration-and-society#toc9655) (accessed May 17, 2017). Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri 1861-12-21 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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St. Louis Mo -- Decr 21st 1861 --

Thos H. Leas Company "C" Engineers Sir

Your favor of the 11th inst has just come to hand, and in answer to your request, I can state most cheerfully, that during the time you were on duty with me in Boston Harbor I was favorably impressed with your Activity and intelligence displayed in drilling and disciplining the men enlisted in the Company and hope that your services

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will be fully appreciated by the proper authority

Very Respectfully Your obt. Servt.

Jas B. McPherson Lt. Col: A. D. C --

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I very cheefully endorse Col McPhersons statement within --

A, H, Bowman Col of Engineers West Point N. Y. June 30. 1863