George Augustus Armes
Major George Augustus Armes (May 29, 1844 – December 18, 1919) was a United States Army officer on the staff of Winfield Scott Hancock who participated in the Battle of the Saline River.[1] He was court-martialed three times.[2]
Biography[]
He was born in Fairfax, Virginia, on May 29, 1844, to Josiah Orcutt Armes and Caroline Olive Older.[3]
He fought in the American Civil War on the side of the Union Army. He participated in the Battle of the Saline River on August 2, 1867.[3] He married Lucy Hamilton Kerr (1851–1927), daughter of John Bozman Kerr, on October 14, 1874.[3] They had eight children, among them, the writer Ethel Armes.
In 1900 he wrote Ups & Downs of an Army Officer.[3] In 1902 he was shot by his former tenant.[2] He married Marie Atkinson on December 24, 1910, in Philadelphia.
He died on December 18, 1919, in Ventnor City, New Jersey.[1]
External links[]
- George Augustus Armes at Find a Grave
- Kansas, Texas, & Indian Territory, U.S. War Department, 1867. This map gives names and locations of places Armes recorded his maneuvers in the conflicts of 1867 and 1868 in Ups & Downs of an Army Officer.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Major Armes Dies. Was Civil War Veteran". Harrisburg Telegraph. December 19, 1919. Retrieved 2015-04-12.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Major Geo. A. Armes Shot. Retired Army Officer Injured by a Former Tenant. The Major's Exciting Career" (PDF). New York Times. August 22, 1902. Retrieved 2015-04-12.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Ups & Downs of an Army Officer. 1900.
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