rdfs:comment | - Henry Samuel Welton (July 8, 1827 – October 18, 1899) was was born at Waterbury, Connecticut. He later moved to Virginia. At the start of the American Civil War, he was appointed a brevet Captain in the volunteer 4th Virginia Infantry (US) from June 7 to August 31, 1861. From August 5th, he joined the United States Army, and was attached to the Army of the Potomac, where he commanded the 19th US infantry: Company H, and was appointed to General George McClellan's General Headquarters during the Battle of Antietam in 1862. Later, he joined the Army of Cumberland in the spring of 1863, and retired from the army all together later that year on November 25. After the war, he moved to Springfield, Illinois. He was one of the special Indian agents appointed by President Grover Cleveland to work
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abstract | - Henry Samuel Welton (July 8, 1827 – October 18, 1899) was was born at Waterbury, Connecticut. He later moved to Virginia. At the start of the American Civil War, he was appointed a brevet Captain in the volunteer 4th Virginia Infantry (US) from June 7 to August 31, 1861. From August 5th, he joined the United States Army, and was attached to the Army of the Potomac, where he commanded the 19th US infantry: Company H, and was appointed to General George McClellan's General Headquarters during the Battle of Antietam in 1862. Later, he joined the Army of Cumberland in the spring of 1863, and retired from the army all together later that year on November 25. After the war, he moved to Springfield, Illinois. He was one of the special Indian agents appointed by President Grover Cleveland to work in the Northwest. He died suddenly of heart disease at the Milwaukee depot at Portage, Wisconsin, when he was en route to Chicago.
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