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William Scott Ketchum

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for the voyage to eastern United States in the late fall of 1861. Ketchum was promoted to lieutenant colonel in late 1861. He was made a brigadier general of Volunteers in February 1862. For the rest of the war he had staff duties in Washington, D.C., and was concerned with inspection, recruiting,
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Following the Civil War, General Ketchum spent four years on special service in the adjutant general’s office in Washington, D.C., then retired in December 1870. He died on June 28, 1871, in
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on 27 July 1953 in the episode entitled ‘The Final Day of General Ketchum’. Ketchum was portrayed by
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The War of the Rebellion SERIES I, Volume L, Chapter LXII - Operations on the Pacific Coast, Part I
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The mysterious circumstances surrounding General Ketchum’s death were dramatized in the
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Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon's Fork
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Der Deutsche Correspondent (Baltimore, Maryland)05 Dec 1871, TuePage 4
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Medical Histories of Union Generals: William Scott Ketchum
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American military personnel of the Mexican–American War
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At the start of the Civil War, Major Ketchum now with
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American Civil War
Norwalk, Connecticut
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York
Seminole Wars
1857 Cheyenne Expedition
Edwin Vose Sumner
Cheyenne
Battle of Solomon's Fork
6th Infantry Regiment
US Fourth Infantry Regiment
Fort Dalles
Oregon
San Bernardino, California
Fort Yuma
San Pedro
Baltimore, Maryland
CBS
Crime Classics
Russell Simpson
Jack D. Welsh, Medical Histories of Union Generals: William Scott Ketchum, Kent State University Press, 2005. pp. 191-192
William Y. Chalfant, Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon's Fork, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002
The War of the Rebellion SERIES I, Volume L, Chapter LXII - Operations on the Pacific Coast, Part I, pp.16,27,28,429,450,466,512,515,567,569,585,594,595,601-602,606,607,612,614-615,617,660-661,663,669-670,687
1871-1872 accounts of the Warton case
Categories
1813 births
1871 deaths
People from Norwalk, Connecticut
American military personnel of the Mexican–American War

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