The Cogswells in America - citizen hylbom blog

62 1
morning. This fate, however, was averted by the action of the United States
Government toward the privateers, and Col. Cogswell was exchanged Sept.
2 1, 1S62. Eight days after, Col. Cogswell took command of the Second
Heavy Artillery. He was brevetted Major in the Regular Army, Oct. 21,
1861, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Ball's Bluff, Va.
After a few months' sen'ice in defence of Washington, Col. Cogswell resigned
his Volunteer Commission, .-Ipril 8. 1863. He was appointed Commissary
of Musters, Seventh Army Corps, then put in command of United States
Eighth Infantry at Fort Columbus, New York, from Dec. 31, 1863, to April
13, 1S64. He was Provost Marshal General in the Richmond Campaign
from May 3, 1S64, to Sept. 17, 1864, and brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel in the
Regular Army, July 30, 1864, for gallant and meritorious service in front
of Petersburg, Va. He was commissioned Major of tlie Eighth Infantry.
U. S. A., Oct. 8, 1864, and in command of General Recruiting Depot and
Port of Fort Columbus. New York, Feb. 7 to June 10, 1865. He received
Brevet Colonel, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during
the Rebellion. He was in garrison in Baltimore, Md., June 27, 1865, to July
10, 1S66; .A.cting Judge .Advocate of the Department of North Carolina, July
10 to Oct. 30, 1866; .\ssistant Commissary of Musters, Department of North
Carolina, Aug. 4 to Nov. 30, 1866 ; Assistant Commissioner of Freedman's
Bureau, Central District of North Carolina, Nov. 8. 1866. to .April 20, 1867;
on duty at headquarters of the regiment, Raleigh, N. C, till Feb. 24, 1868 ;
ordered on the staff of Brevet Major-Gen. Canby, same date ; appointed Pro-
visional Mayor of Charleston, S. C, March 7, 1868; relieved from that duty,
July 6, 186S ; in charge of Bureau of Civil Afifairs for the States of North and
South Carolina, from July 6, 1868; Commanding Post of Columbia. S. C
Dec. I, 1868 ; commanding Post of Charleston, S. C, March 5, 1869 ; awaiting
orders, March 15, 1869; assigned to Twenty-first Infantry. March 26. 1869,
and joined regiment at Richmond, Va., April 4, i86g ; left Richmond, April 12,
1869, en route for California ; arrived .April 17, 1869, at Omaha. Nebraska; left
Omaha Barracks, May 4, 1S69, in command of headquarters, and companies
F, S, H, Q. and K, Twenty-first Infantry, for San Francisco, Cal. ; arrived in
that city, May 14, 1869 ; left San Francisco, June 5, 1869, in command of
companies B, D, F, and Q, en route to Camp Goodwin, Arizona Territory,
where he arrived Aug. 24, 1869, with companies B and F, Twenty first
Infantry ; commanded camp McDowell, Arizona Territory, from Sept. iS,
1869, to March 30, 1870; commanded the sub-district of Southern Arizona,
headquarters in Tucson, from March 26 to June 22, 1870; on special duty
at headquarters of department of Arizona, Prescott, July 3, 1870; Acting
Assistant Inspector-General of the Department of Arizona, from July 3, 1870,
and placed on the retired list, Sept. 5, 187 i. Col. Cogswell resided for a time
in Plainfield, N. J.,and was chosen an Alderman of that city in 1875. He was
appointed June i, 1877, Deputy Governor of the Soldiers' Home, in Washing-
ton, D. C, and was relieved by President Garfield, June i, 1881, but reap-
pointed, May I, 18S2, and held this position at the time of his death, which