Albemarle Cady

Albemarle Cady
Albemarle Cady with the medal of the Aztec Club
Born(1807-02-15)February 15, 1807
Keene, New Hampshire[1][2][3]
DiedMarch 14, 1888(1888-03-14) (aged 81)
New Haven, Connecticut
Buried
Concord, New Hampshire
AllegianceUnited States of America
Service/branchUnited States Army
Years of service1829–1864
RankColonel
Brevet Brigadier general, U.S. Army
CommandsDistrict of Oregon (military)
Camp for Draftees – New Haven, Connecticut
Battles/warsSecond Seminole War
Mexican–American War First Sioux War
American Civil War

Albemarle Cady (February 15, 1807 – March 14, 1888) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Second Seminole War, Mexican–American War, First Sioux War and the American Civil War. During the Civil War, he was briefly lieutenant colonel of the 7th Infantry Regiment (United States). He then served in administrative positions in the Department of the Pacific, including the District of Oregon. He received brevet appointments for his service in the Mexican–American War and the Civil War.[4] He retired from the Regular Army as a colonel on May 18, 1864. On July 17, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated and on July 26, 1866, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of Cady as a brevet brigadier general in the Regular Army, to rank from March 13, 1865.[5]

  1. ^ Cullum, George W. George W. Cullum's Register of Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy. Revised and Extended. Vol. 1. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1891. OCLC 1417240. Retrieved March 23, 2020. p. 437.
  2. ^ Cullum's Register also can be retrieved online as of March 20, 2020, at Cullum's Register online.
  3. ^ Aztec Club website biography gives Cady's place of birth as Trenton, New Jersey, but other sources, such as Eicher, agree with Cullum. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  4. ^ Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1. p. 158.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Eicher732 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).