I’m having more troubles than expected compiling the Charles Meinhold biographical sketch.  Since I don’t want to have issues of long silences on the blog, I will finish up the regimental staff series in the interim.

As with the staffs of the other regiments, there are a few items of note with this one.  Other than the Bull Run campaign, none of the field grade officers served with e regiment during the war.

The gaps in the positions of adjutant and quartermaster are not nearly as prolonged as in the first four regiments.  As with the 4^th Cavalry, after 1862 all of the adjutants and quartermasters were officers who were enlisted when the war started.  Thomas Maley was a very interesting individual, and deserving of a separate article of his own.  This regiment did not have a regimental quartermaster for the last five months of the war.  I suspect the duties were covered by the Reserve Brigade quartermaster and the regimental quartermaster sergeant.

 

Colonels

Albert S. Johnston                   March 3, 1855 – May 3, 1861

George H. Thomas                   May 3, 1861 – October 27, 1863

William H. Emory                    October 27, 1863 – July 1, 1876

 

Lieutenant Colonels

Robert E. Lee                           March 3, 1855 – March 16, 1861

John Sedgwick                         March 16, 1861 – April 25, 1861

George H. Thomas                   April 25, 1861 – May 3, 1861

Delos B. Sackett                      May 3, 1861 – October 1, 1861

Lawrence P. Graham               October 1, 1861 – May 9, 1864

Andrew J. Smith                      May 9, 1864 – July 28, 1866

 

Majors

George H. Thomas                   May 12, 1855 – April 25, 1861

Earl Van Dorn                         June 28, 1860 – January 31, 1861

Edmund K. Smith                    January 31, 1861 – April 6, 1861

James Oakes                            April 6, 1861 – November 12, 1861

Innis N. Palmer                                    April 25, 1861 – September 23, 1863

James H. Whittlesey                November 12, 1861 – November 30, 1863

E. A. Carr                                July 17, 1862 – January 7, 1873

David H. Hastings                    September 23, 1863 – December 7, 1863

David S. Stanley                      December 1, 1863 – July 28, 1866

William B. Royall                    December 7, 1863 – December 2, 1875

 

Adjutants

William W. Lowe                           May 31, 1858 – May 9, 1861

Abraham K. Arnold                 June 1, 1861 – May 9, 1862

Thomas E. Maley                     May 9, 1862 – December 1, 1862

James Hastings                                    December 1, 1862 – July 31, 1866

 

Quartermasters

J. F. Minter                              October 1, 1856 – March 31, 1861

Andrew P. Porter                     April 1, 1861 – August 1, 1861

Charles H. Tompkins               August 28, 1861 – November 13, 1861

William H. Brown                    November 13, 1861 – December 1, 1862

Thomas E. Maley                     December 1, 1862 – November 30, 1864

 

Commisaries

Philip Dwyer                            November 29, 1862 – July 31, 1876

 

Sources: Heitman, pgs 34