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George H. Steuart

STEUART, George H., soldier, born in Baltimore, Maryland, 24 August, 1828. He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1848, became 2d lieutenant in the 2d dragoons, 11 November, 1849, 1st lieutenant in the 1st cavalry, 3 March, 1855, and captain, 20 December, 1855. He resigned in April, 1861, and on 16 June, 1861, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Maryland (Confederate) regiment. On 21 July, 1861, he was promoted its colonel, and on 18 March, 1862, he became brigadier-general. In Stonewall Jackson's advance on General Nathaniel P. Banks, in May, 1862, he led the cavalry, and he afterward had charge of an infantry brigade. He was badly wounded at Cross Keys, 8 June, 1862, and his brigade suffered severely in the attack on Culp's Hill, at Gettysburg. He defended the "bloody angle" at the battle of the Wilderness against Hancock's corps, and was taken prisoner, but exchanged in the winter of 1864-'5. Since the war he has resided in Baltimore.

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