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Rh chief quartermaster military division of the Southwest, with rank of colonel, staff volunteers, June 3 to July 17, 1865; of the military division of the Gulf, July 17, 1865, to August 15, 1866; and of the Department of the Gulf, August, 1866, to April 1, 1867, and of the fifth military district, April 1, to August 31, 1867. He was brevetted major, lieutenant-colonel and colonel, United States army, March 13, 1865, for "faithful and meritorious services during the rebellion," and brigadier-general United States army "for faithful and meritorious services in the quartermaster's department during the rebellion," and continued on quartermaster's duty in the various departments up to August 19, 1896, when he was made quarter-master-general United States army with the rank of brigadier-general. He remained at the head of the department until he was retired from active service, February 16, 1897.

He entered the army through personal preference; and his military service received commendation from Generals Grant, Sheridan, Canby, Hancock, Ingalls, Porter, Williams, Schofield, Howard and Stoneman, and from Quartermaster-Generals Meigs and Holabird. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, a companion of the military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; of the Sons of the Revolution; of the University club of New York city; of the Metropolitan club of Washington, District of Columbia, and of the Chevy Chase clubs of Washington, District of Columbia and of Maryland.

He was married March 30, 1869, to Alice Chester, daughter of Edmund Sewall and Sarah (Stacey) Munroe of Englewood, New Jersey, and their three children were living in 1905.