Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rufus Ingalls (August 23, 1818 January 15, 1893) was an American military general who served as the 16th Quartermaster General of the United States Army. Ingalls was born in the village of Denmark in what is now Maine (at the time, it was a part of Massachusetts). His father Cyrus was a prominent local mill owner and politician who was among those at the Maine constitutional convention in 1819. Through his father''s political connections, Rufus Ingalls was appointed to the United States Military Academy, graduating in the Class of 1843, which included his friend Ulysses S. Grant. Ingalls was brevetted as a Second Lieutenant and assigned to garrison duty in the western frontier.