Robert Brown Potter

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Robert Brown Potter (July 16, 1829 February 19, 1887) was a United States lawyer and a Union Army general in the American Civil War. Potter was born in Schenectady, New York. His father was Alonzo Potter (1800 1865), American bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Pennsylvania. Potter served as an attorney in New York City prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. At the start of the Civil War, Potter enlisted as a private in the New York militia, was promoted to lieutenant, and then commissioned as a major on October 14, 1861. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on November 1 of that year. He was wounded at the Battle of New Bern on March 14, 1862, while serving under Brig. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. Potter commanded the 51st New York Volunteers in IX Corps at Second Bull Run. Promoted to the rank of colonel on September 10, he led the regiment at the Battle of Antietam. Potter was wounded at Antietam while participating in Burnside''s attack on the Confederate right flank.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786130923181
• ISBN-10: 613092318X
• Artikelnr.: 29839745