Amos Beebe Eaton

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Amos B. Eaton

Amos Beebe Eaton (born May 12, 1806 in Catskill , New York , † February 21, 1877 in New Haven , Connecticut ) was an American brigadier general in the US Army in the Civil War .

Life

The Battle of Buena Vista (1847)

Eaton, a son of the well-known botanist Amos Eaton , entered the US Military Academy at West Point after school and graduated in 1826. After a subsequent employment as a lieutenant in the US Army Commissariat, he took part in the Second Seminole War from 1835 to 1842 . At the beginning of the Mexican-American War in 1846 he was appointed chief commissioner for the livelihood of the army units of General Zachary Taylor and after the Battle of Buena Vista in February 1847 he was awarded the rank of major .

After the end of the Mexican-American War, he returned to the US Army Commissariat and worked there for 23 years until 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was appointed lieutenant colonel commissioner for the New York shopping depot in 1861 , before being appointed commissioner general of the Washington, DC bureau in 1864 . In the following years he was promoted to colonel in quick succession and to brigadier general in June 1864 and finally received the rank of major general at the end of the civil war in March 1865 . In 1874 he was adopted into retirement .

His son Daniel Cady Eaton was in turn a recognized botanist and longtime professor of botany at Yale University . His granddaughter Elizabeth Selden Rogers was a prominent suffragette .

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SURNAME Eaton, Amos Beebe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Brigadier General of the Northern States in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Catskill , Maine
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1877
Place of death New Haven , Connecticut