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Civil War Union Brigadier General. He was a brillant engineer-explorer whom as a Colonel in the US Army, made five transcontinental surveys. When the Civil War began, he was sent in behalf of President Lincoln on a secret mission to Governor Houston of Texas and was appointed Brigadier General in May, 1861. At Edwards Ferry, he was badly wounded but still led an outstanding charge at Blooming Gap. On March 2, 1862, he died unexpectedly of pneumonia. 
 
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