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.In 1866, he was commissioned as second lieutenant inthe 27th Infantry.With the consolidation of regiments, he was as-signed to the 3rd Cavalry at Camp Verde in 1871, moving with theregiment to the Platte where he served in the Big Horn and Yellow-stone Expedition.Crawford was promoted to captain in 1879, and in1882 was assigned to Camp Thomas, Arizona.Upon Crook s returnto Arizona, he assigned Crawford as commander of Indian Scouts, 452 APPENDIXand military superintendent at San Carlos.During the GeronimoCampaign, he was killed in a skirmish with Mexican militia.See alsoTHREE BEARS.(Altshuler, 1991, 84 85; O Neal, 95 96)CRONKHITE, Henry Maclean, served as a private in the Vol-unteers during the Civil War, and in 1867 was appointed assistantsurgeon.He was surgeon major on his retirement in 1890.(Heit-man, 1:340)DAHLGREN, John Adolphus (1809 70), of Philadelphia, ap-prenticed in the navy as a midshipman in 1826.After passing hisexaminations, and spending time with mundane assignments, he wasposted to the Coast Survey in 1834.He also excelled in ordnanceand invented the Dahlgren gun, used extensively as both a navaland a coastal defense weapon during the Civil War.During the CivilWar, he first commanded the Washington Navy Yard, and later theSouth Atlantic Blockading Squadron.He was chief of the Bureau ofOrdnance at the time of his death.(Schneller)DANA, James Jackson (1821 98), of Massachusetts, was commis-sioned second lieutenant of the 4th Artillery in 1855.He served onthe frontier, and then with the Quarter Master Department in theArmy of the Potomac.He was promoted to the active rank of majorin 1867, serving as quartermaster of the Departments of the Lakes,Arizona, and the South, and the District of New Mexico.He retiredas lieutenant colonel in 1885.(Altshuler, 1991, 92 93)DARR, Francis (d.1895), of Ohio, was commissioned first lieu-tenant of Volunteers in 1861.He served with distinction duringthe Civil War, receiving brevets to brigadier general.He resigned in1864.(Heitman, 1:354)DAVIS, George Breckenridge (1847 1914), of Massachusetts,entered the Volunteers as a sergeant in 1863, and was mustered outas first lieutenant.He entered West Point, and graduated in 1871,after which he was posted to Fort D.A.Russell as second lieutenantof the 5th Cavalry.He served in Arizona from 1872 to 1873, whenhe was assigned to the academy as assistant professor.Davis waspromoted to first lieutenant in 1877, and rejoined his regiment inthe Platte.In 1883, he returned to the academy as principal assistantprofessor of history, geography, and ethics, and assistant professorof law, and wrote Outlines of International Law.He was promotedto captain in 1888, and after service in the Indian Territory, waspromoted to major and judge advocate.Later he served for twelve PERSONS MENTIONED IN THE DIARY 453years as judge advocate general of the army.He was a major generalat the time of his retirement in 1911.(Altshuler, 1991, 95)DAVIS, George Whitefield (1839 1918), of Connecticut, enlistedin the Volunteers in 1861, and was commissioned in April 1862.Hefinished the Civil War as a major of Volunteers, and in 1867 was ap-pointed captain in the 14th Infantry, and was posted to Fort McPher-son (later Camp Date Creek), Arizona.He later was chosen to devisea reinforcement for the foundations of the Washington Monument.He retired as major general in 1903, and served as governor of theCanal Zone for the next two years.(Altshuler, 1991, 96 97)De COURCEY, Ferdinand Edwin, of Ireland, enlisted as a privatein the 2nd Infantry in 1857, and by 1861 had risen to sergeant.In1861, he was appointed second lieutenant, and subsequently to firstlieutenant.He was promoted to captain in 1865.He retired as majorin 1891.Although Bourke referred to him as colonel, Heitmandoes not list a brevet rank.(Heitman, 1:364)De JAÑON, PATRICE (d.1892), originally from South America,joined the faculty of West Point as sword master in 1846, and wasnamed professor in 1857.He retired with the pay of colonel in 1882.(Heitman, 1:365)DELANEY, Hayden (1845 90), native of Ohio, served as an en-listed man in the Volunteers during the Civil War.He was appointedsecond lieutenant of the 9th Infantry in 1867, and was brevetedfor service against the Paiute Indians of Oregon in 1868.He wasbreveted a second time for action in Col.Ranald Mackenzie s attackon the Cheyennes on November 25, 1876, during Crook s PowderRiver Expedition in Wyoming.He was promoted to captain in 1889,but suffered from lung hemorrhages.He died during sick leave.(Altshuler, 1991, 100; Bourke, 390 92)De WITT, Calvin, of Pennsylvania, served as a captain in theVolunteers from 1861 to 1863.In 1867, he was appointed assistantsurgeon, and promoted to surgeon major in 1885.In 1901, he be-came colonel and assistant surgeon general.(Heitman, 1: 371)DODD, George Allen (1852 1925), of Pennsylvania, was an 1876graduate of West Point.He was posted to Wyoming as second lieu-tenant of the 3rd Cavalry, and served in Nebraska and Dakota.Hewas promoted to first lieutenant in 1880, and served in the Apachecampaigns in Arizona in the 1880s.He later served in the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, and during Mexican 454 APPENDIXborder disturbances.He retired in 1916 as brigadier general.(Alt-shuler, 1991, 103 4)DODGE, Frederick Leighton (d.1891), native of New Hampshire,enlisted in the Volunteers in 1862, and was appointed first lieuten-ant in 1865.In 1867, he was named second lieutenant of the 23rdInfantry in the Department of the Columbia.He was transferred toFort Whipple, Arizona, in 1872, and promoted to first lieutenant ayear later.His regiment transferred to the Department of the Plattein 1874.In 1889, he suffered a mental breakdown, and retired twoyears later.A few months after his retirement, he committed suicide.(Altshuler, 1991, 105)DODGE, Richard Irving (1827 95), 1848 graduate of West Point,was a grand-nephew of Washington Irving who shared Irving s liter-ary bent.Like Bourke, Dodge was a prolific diarist and observer aswell as a naturalist, publishing several books on western wildlife andon Indian culture.Perhaps his best known are The Black Hills: AMinute Description of the Routes, Scenery, Soil, Climate, Timber,Gold, Geology, Zoology, etc.(1876), and Our Wild Indians: ThirtyThree Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the GreatWest (1882).He spent part of the period prior to the Civil War onthe Texas frontier.Unlike many of his contemporaries, who trans-ferred to the Volunteers to attain advancement during the war,Dodge remained in the Regular service, although he was brevetedto colonel for faithful and meritorious service in the organization ofthe Volunteer armies.Promoted to the active rank of major in 1864,he spent much of the postwar era on the frontier.He was namedlieutenant colonel of the 23rd Infantry in 1873, and promoted tocolonel and aide-de-camp to General Sherman in 1882.He retiredin 1891.Aside from writing a definitive biography, Wayne R.Kimehas edited Dodge s book, The Plains of North America and TheirInhabitants (1989), as well as four volumes comprising his servicejournals from 1875 to 1883
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