United States Volunteers - DeTrobriand's Staff & Wounded at Gettysburg - NEW

Item CDV-11619

Description

Benjamin M. Piatt, husband of Theodora M. Piatt, enlisted in the late war in 1861 as a volunteer, and was appointed assistant adjutant-general with rank of captain in the volunteer army on the 16th of May 1862; promoted brevet major and major March 2,1865, and honorably mustered out November 22,1865. Entered the regular Army as second lieutenant in the Forty-fourth United States Infantry Veteran Reserve Corps, because not able to accept appointment of first lieutenant in the Twenty-fifth Regiment (active); promoted July 2,1867, first lieutenant by brevet “for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Chancellorsville,” and to captain by brevet “for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Gettysburg.”
 
Died:  April 17, 1885
 
 
Source:  The Committee on Invalid Pensions; case of Mrs. Theodora M. Piatt.