AZ Research A Buffalo Company [16 July 1891]
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EDITOR
BUFFALO EXPRESS:
— Among the organizations that Buffalo sent to the "Wah" the gallant
"Majah" Wheeler seems to have omitted G Co. 33d N. Y. Vols., which
served in the erstwhile Army of the Potomac, and, as a body, certainly brought
no discredit on Buffalo. Its first captain was Theodore B. Hamilton, son of
Frank Hamilton, the celebrated surgeon and one of Buffalo's prominent citizens,
who also served in the Army of the Potomac as Medical Director. Capt. Hamilton
was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the 62d New-York after the peninsular
campaign. Elery A. Eustaphteve was first lieutenant, but, owing to feeble
health, had to resign and come home to die. His family were also among
Buffalo's prominent people. George A. Gale the first orderly sergeant, was a
typo in the Courier office, and succeeded Hamilton as captain. George W.
Marshall was promoted from sergeant to first lieutenant, and was a Third - ward
boy, brother to the present City Clerk, Charles Marshall George died a few
years after the War from disease contracted while in the service. Hamilton and
Gale are living; the former in New-York and the latter in the West. These
were all brave
soldiers and good officers. The rank and file have long since – nearly all –
gone to join the phantom army. In Buffalo I recall but one living survivor'
Police-Captain John Kraft. ONE OF THE MUSKET
CARRIERS. Philadelphia, Pa., July
14th. Buffalo Express, 16/07/1891,
Thursday, July 16, 1891, p.6. Anderson
Zouaves
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