George Augustus Armes between 1903-1905
George Augustus Armes in 1917
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 (1807–1873) and Caroline Olive Older (1801–1862).[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) on October 14, 1874.[3]
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 (1864–1944) on December 24, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He died on December 18, 1919 in Ventnor City, New Jersey.[1]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Major Armes Dies. Was Civil War Veteran". December 19, 1919. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Augustus_Armes_obituary.png. Retrieved 2015-04-12.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Major Geo. A. Armes Shot. Retired Army Officer Injured by a Former Tenant. The Major's Exciting Career". August 22, 1902. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1902/08/22/118476299.pdf. Retrieved 2015-04-12.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Ups & Downs of an Army Officer. 1900. https://archive.org/details/upsanddownsanar00armegoog.
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.
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