SIOUX INDIAN/CIVIL WAR GENERAL COLONEL AAG DEPT PACIFIC ORDERS DOCUMENT SIGNED

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SIOUX INDIAN/CIVIL WAR GENERAL COLONEL AAG DEPT PACIFIC ORDERS DOCUMENT SIGNED :
$6.99

RICHARD COULTER DRUM

(1825 – 1909)

CIVIL WAR UNION BVT BRIGADIER GENERAL,

COLONEL and AAG, DEPARTMENT of the PACIFIC,

SIOUX INDIAN WARS GENERAL

FULL BRIGADIER GENERAL and ADJUTANT GENERAL of the UNITED STATES ARMY!

Drum served as an aide-de-camp for General William S. Harneyduring his expedition against the Sioux, and participated in the Battle of Ash Hollow. In 1861 he was appointedas an assistant adjutant general for the far-flung Department of the Pacific. He was quicklypromoted to major and lieutenant colonel, andafter the end of the American Civil War he was brevetted Coloneland brigadier general, forfaithful and meritorious services in the Adjutant-General\'sDepartment during the war. After theCivil War he continued in the regular Army.He was promoted to Colonel in 1869. He was again made AssistantAdjutant-General, for the Military Division of the Missouri, in Chicago fromNovember 28, 1873 to May 2, 1878, where he commanded the Federal troops in the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. He thenserved until retirement in the Adjutant Generals office in Washington D. C.OnJune 16, 1880, he became Brigadier General and Adjutant General of the UnitedStates Army. He retired in 1889,and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

HERE’S AN INDIAN WARS ERA DOCUMENT
SIGNED BY DRUM - on “HEADQUARTERS OF
THE ARMY, ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE”
Letterhead – “Special Orders No. 183,” 2pp., datelined
at Washington, Aug. 30, 1880, regarding various orders,
e.g., leave of absence, discharges, assignments mentioning
Fort Riley, Kansas, HQ Department of Dakota, 7th Cavalry
…Boldly Signed by Drum while a Post War
Indian Wars General, AG of the Army, and serving
under the Command of General W. T. Sherman!

THE DOCUMENT MEASURES 7 ½” x 9 ½” and IS IN VERYFINE CONDITION -- PERFECT FOR DISPLAY WITH A PERIOD CDV PHOTOGRAPH or ENGRAVINGOF THE GENERAL!

A RARE & Excellent Piece of Union Militaria to add to your Civil War “Generalsin Blue” Autograph, Manuscript & Ephemera Collection!

Biography of the Honorable

Richard Coulter Drum

Richard Coulter Drum, soldier, born in Pennsylvania, 28 May 1825. He studied at JeffersonCollege, entered the army as a private in the 1st Pennsylvania volunteers on 8December 1846, was engaged at the siege of Vera Cruz, and appointed a SecondLieutenant of U. S. infantry on 18 February 1847. He was brevetted FirstLieutenant for bravery at Chapultepec and the capture of the City of Mexico.

After the war with Mexico he was transferred tothe artillery, was engaged in the action at Blue Water, Nebraska, served asaide-de-camp to General Harney in the Sioux expedition, and was in Kansasduring the troubles of 1856. From 1856 till 1858 he served as acting assistantadjutant general at the headquarters of the Department of the West, andsubsequently as adjutant in the artillery school.

At the beginning of the Civil War he wasappointed Assistant Adjutant General of the U. S. army, and promoted to Captain on 14 May 1861, Major on 3 August1861, and Lieutenant Colonel on 17 July1862. On 24 September 1864, he was brevetted Colonel, and on 13 March 1865, Brigadier General for servicesduring the war.

He continued in the Adjutant General\'sDepartment, was stationed in 1866-1868 at Philadelphia, in 1868-69 at Atlanta,the headquarters of the Department of the South, receiving promotion as Colonelon 22 February 1869, and on 15 June 1880, he succeeded General Townsend, on the latter\'sretirement, as Adjutant General of the Army, with the rank of Brigadier General.

His elder brother, Simon Henry Drum, soldier, born inGreensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in June 1807; killed in actionat the storming of the City of Mexico, 13 September 1847, was graduated at theU. S. Military Academy in 1830. He was assistant instructor of infantry tacticsthere in 1830-32, was engaged in the Florida war and the Canada borderdisturbances, and as Captain of Artillery in the occupation of Texas in 1846served through the Mexican war, distinguished himself at Contreras, where herecaptured two fieldpieces taken from his regiment at Buena Vista, and fell atthe assault on the City of Mexico after he had entered the Belen gate whiledirecting the fire of a gun he had captured.

NOTE: Another relative, William Findlay Drum, Lieutenant Colonel, UnitedStates Army, is buried adjacent to him in Arlington National Cemetery.

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