History of Tyre, (Seneca County) New York United States of America

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George Lucas Hartsuff, soldier, was born in Tyre, N.Y., May 28, 1830. He removed with his parents to Michigan and was educated there. He was graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1852; was brevetted 2d lieutenant and assigned to the 4th U.S. artillery, serving in Texas, and in Florida in the Seminole war where he was wounded. He was instructor in artillery and infantry tactics in the military academy, 1856-61. He was regularly promoted and in 1861 ranked as captain and was made assistant adjutant-general. He was promoted major, July 17, 1862; was made a brigadier-general in the volunteer army, April 15, 1862; major-general of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862; took command of the 23d corps, April 27, 1863; was promoted lieutenant-colonel and assistant adjutant-general, U.S.A., June 1, 1864; and brevet brigadier- and major-general U.S.A., March 13, 1865. He served at Fort Pickens, Fla., from April to July, 1861; in West Virginia under Rosecrans from July, 1861, to April, 1862; in command of Abercrombie's brigade at Cedar Mountain, and at Antietam where he was severely wounded while leading a charge at Dunker Church, Sept. 17, 1862; and on the board to revise the rules and articles of war, 1863. He was commander of the 23d corps in Kentucky, 1863-64, where he opposed the advance of Morgan in Ohio; in command of works in the siege of Petersburg, Va., March and April, 1865; and adjutant-general, 5th military district, 1867-68, and of the division of Missouri, 1869-71. He was retired for disability from wounds received in battle June 29, 1871, and died in New York city, May 16, 1874.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Tyre, (Seneca County) New York

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