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General James S. Negley DS, 1P, Folio, New York, Pittsburgh
and Chicago Railway Bond, signed as President. $85.00
Negley, James S., major-general, At the beginning of the Civil war
he raised a brigade for three months' service and participated with
it in the battle of Falling Waters, July 2, I86I. After his three
months' service had expired he was re-commissioned
brigadier-general of volunteers, his commission dating from Oct. I,
I86I, and served under Gen. Buell in northern Alabama and
Tennessee, where he commanded one of the columns of Mitchel's
force, and in May, I862, surprised the Confederate cavalry under
Gen. Wirt Adams, at Sweeden's cove captured a large number of
prisoners and put the remainder to flight. He subsequently
commanded at the battle of La Vergne, Oct. 7, 1862, where he
defeated the Confederates under Gen. R. H. Anderson and Gen.
N. B. Forrest, and for gallantry at Stone's river he was promoted
major-general, to date from Nov. 29, 1862. He engaged in the
Georgia campaign, and held Owen's gap at the battle of
Chickamauga. He was honorably mustered out Jan. 19, 1865.
and Chicago Railway Bond, signed as President. $85.00
Negley, James S., major-general, At the beginning of the Civil war
he raised a brigade for three months' service and participated with
it in the battle of Falling Waters, July 2, I86I. After his three
months' service had expired he was re-commissioned
brigadier-general of volunteers, his commission dating from Oct. I,
I86I, and served under Gen. Buell in northern Alabama and
Tennessee, where he commanded one of the columns of Mitchel's
force, and in May, I862, surprised the Confederate cavalry under
Gen. Wirt Adams, at Sweeden's cove captured a large number of
prisoners and put the remainder to flight. He subsequently
commanded at the battle of La Vergne, Oct. 7, 1862, where he
defeated the Confederates under Gen. R. H. Anderson and Gen.
N. B. Forrest, and for gallantry at Stone's river he was promoted
major-general, to date from Nov. 29, 1862. He engaged in the
Georgia campaign, and held Owen's gap at the battle of
Chickamauga. He was honorably mustered out Jan. 19, 1865.