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208 Appendix merriam chronological service locations 1862 Aug. 29 Appointed Captain, 20th Maine Infantry 1862–63 Sept. 1862–June 1863 20th Maine Infantry, Army of the Potomac, participated in the Battles of Antietam (Sept 17), Shepherdstown (Sept 19), and Fredericksburg (Dec 11–15) 1863–65 Mar. 1863–Oct. 1865 80th, 85th, 73rd US ColoredTroops in Department of the Gulf, participating in the siege of Port Hudson, La. (1863) and the campaign against Mobile, Ala. (Mar.–Apr. 1865) 1866–67 Oct. 1866–Mar. 1867 Recruiting Service, Missouri 1867 Mar.–June 1867 With 38th Infantry, Fort Harker, Kans. 1867–69 June 1867–Sept. 1869 En route with troops to and at Fort Bayard, N.Mex.Terr. 1869–71 Sept. 1869–May 1871 At Fort Bliss,Tex. 1871–72 May 1871–Jan. 1872 At Fort McKavett,Tex. 1872 Jan.–Mar. 1872 On Leave 1872 Mar.–Dec. 1872 At Fort Duncan,Tex. 1872–73 Dec. 1872–Mar. 1873 At Fort Ringgold,Tex. 1873 Mar.–Dec. 1873 Commanding troops patrolling Rio Grande frontier 1873–74 Dec. 1873–June 1874 At Fort Brown,Tex. 1874 June–Dec. 1874 On Leave 1874–76 Dec. 1874–Mar. 1876 At Fort Brown,Tex. 1876 Mar.–Oct. 1876 Commanding Fort McIntosh,Tex. 1876–77 Oct. 1876–June 1877 McPherson Barracks, Atlanta, Ga. 1877 June–July 1877 On Leave 1877–78 July 1877–Apr. 1878 With 2nd Infantry at Fort Lapwai, IdahoTerr. 1878–79 Apr. 1878–Sept. 1879 At Fort Coeur d’Alene, IdahoTerr. 1879–80 Sept. 1879–Jan. 1880 At Camp Chelan,Wash.Terr. 1880 Jan.–May 1880 Detached service atVancouver Barracks,Wash. Terr. 1880 May–Oct. 1880 With 2nd Infantry, Camp Chelan,Wash.Terr. 1880–82 Oct. 1880–Sept. 1882 At Fort Colville,Wash.Terr. 1882–85 Sept. 1882–Aug. 1885 At Fort Spokane,Wash.Terr. 1885 Aug.–Oct. 1885 Commanding 7th Infantry, Fort Laramie,Wyo. Terr. 1885–86 Oct. 1885–Feb. 1886 On Leave 1886–87 Feb. 1886–Mar. 1887 Commanding 7th Infantry, Fort Laramie,Wyo. Terr. Appendix 209 1887 Mar to July 1887 On Leave 1887–89 July 1887–Oct. 1889 Commanding 7th Infantry, Fort Laramie,Wyo. Terr., and Fort Logan, Colo. 1889–94 Oct. 1889–June 1894 Commanding 7th Infantry, Fort Logan, Colo. 1894 June–Aug. 1894 With NewYork National Guard 1894–97 Aug. 1894–July 1897 Commanding 7th Infantry, Fort Logan, Colo. (Also commanding Department of the Colorado, May 10–27, 1897) 1897–99 July 1897–Jan. 1899 Commanding Department of the Columbia, Vancouver Barracks,Wash. 1898–99 Apr. 1898–June 1899 Commanding Department of the Columbia and Department of California, Presidio, San Francisco , Calif. 1899–1901 Jan. 1899–Nov. 1901 Commanding Department of the Colorado, Denver, Colo. (Also commanding Department of the Missouri, Mar. 31, 1899–Dec. 4, 1900, and Mar. 2–Aug. 13, 1901) 1901 Nov. 13 Retired from active service [34.200.248.66] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 02:31 GMT) 211 NOTES preface 1. Denver Post, July 20, 2008, 12E. chapter 1 Epigraph.War Department, Medals of Honor Circular, 85 (copy in Merriam Papers, Fort Laramie Archives). Also see War of the Rebellion:A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 128 vols. (Washington, DC: GPO, 1880–1901), ser. 1, 49(1):313: “Medals of Honor, Merriam, Henry C. Lieutenant-Colonel 73rd U.S. Colored Troops, April 9, 1865, Distinguished gallantry at the assault and capture of Fort Blakely, Ala.” (Note that the fort’s name is variously spelled as “Blakely” or “Blakeley.”) 1. Henry C. Merriam, “The Capture of Mobile” (paper presented to the Maine Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, May 3, 1905), Merriam Papers , Fort Laramie Archives. 2. Lt. Col. H. C. Merriam to Acting Assistant Adjutant General, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Blakely [sic], Ala., Apr. 10, 1865, Merriam Papers, Special Collections, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa.This letter constitutes Merriam’s after-action report and is hereafter cited as Merriam, Blakeley Report. 3. Merriam, “Capture of Mobile.” 4. Brig. Gen.William A. Pile, Official Report 82, Apr. 13, 1865, War of the Rebellion, 49(1):288–89. General Andrews was commander of the Second Division, XIII Corps. 5. Merriam, “Capture of Mobile,” 13. 6. Ibid., 18. 7. Merriam, Blakeley Report. Louis A. Snaer, Company B, 73rd USCT, was the only black officer on the battlefield that day. “Snaer was considered a free person of color in New Orleans upon his joining the Louisiana Native Guards in 1862.” See Camille Corte, “History of 73rd U...