Charles F. Walcott

George F.Walcott
Lt Colonel Charles Folsom Walcott and wife Anna Morrill Wyman Walcott (late 1864)
Birth nameGeorge Folsom Walcott
Born(1836-12-22)December 22, 1836
Hopkinton, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJune 11, 1888(1888-06-11) (aged 51)
Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.
Buried
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Allegiance United States
Service / branchUnion Army
RankBrigadier General
Commands21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
12th Regiment of Massachusetts Militia
61st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
Battles / warsAmerican Civil War
Alma materHarvard Law School

George Folsom Walcott was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War.

George F. Walcott was born December 22, 1836, in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.[1] He was a graduate of Harvard University in 1857 and Harvard University Law School in 1860 and a lawyer.[1]

On August 5, 1861, Walcott was appointed captain of the 21st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.[1] He resigned on April 25, 1863.[1] He was appointed captain of the 12th Regiment of Massachusetts Militia on May 16, 1864.[1] He was mustered out of the volunteers on August 15, 1864.[1] He was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 61st Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry on September 24, 1864, and colonel of the regiment on February 28, 1865.[1] Walcott was mustered out of the volunteers on June 4, 1865.[1] On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Walcott for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers for gallant and meritorious service resulting in the fall of Richmond, Virginia, and surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, to rank from April 9, 1865, and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866.[2][3]

Walcott was the author of History of the Twenty-First Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in the War for the Preservation of the Union, 1861-1865. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882. OCLC 228668643.[1]

Charles F. Walcott died June 11, 1881, in Salem, Massachusetts.[1] He was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1. p. 548.
  2. ^ Eicher, 2001 p. 760.
  3. ^ Hunt, Roger D. and Jack R. Brown, Brevet Brigadier Generals in Blue. Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books, Inc., 1990. ISBN 978-1-56013-002-4. p. 643.