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 4th 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