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Samuel Peter Heintzelman (September 30, 1805 – May 1, 1880) was a United States Army general. He served in the Seminole War, the Mexican–American War, the Yuma War and the Cortina Troubles. During the American Civil War he was a prominent figure in the early months of the war rising to the command of a corps.
Samuel P. Heintzelman March 13 – October 30, 1862 George Stoneman: October 30, 1862 – February 5, 1863 Daniel E. Sickles: February 5 – May 29, 1863 David B. Birney: May 29 – June 3, 1863 Daniel E. Sickles: June 3 – July 2, 1863 David B. Birney: July 2–7, 1863 William H. French: July 7, 1863 – January 28, 1864 David B. Birney
The Cortina Troubles is the generic name for the First Cortina War, from 1859 to 1860, and the Second Cortina War, in 1861, in which paramilitary forces led by the Mexican rancher and local leader Juan Cortina, confronted elements of the United States Army, the Confederate States Army, the Texas Rangers, and the local militias of Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas.
Cortina raided and occupied the town with a squad of armed men. They held the city for several months, until they were attacked by a joint effort between the Texas Rangers and U.S. Army, led by John Ford and Samuel Heintzelman. The final battle was fought in March 1860, when Cortina was defeated. [89]
Heintzelman, Samuel P. Colonel, USA (May 14, 1861) Major general, USV (May 5, 1862) USMA, 1826 Herron, Francis Jay: Major general, USV (November 29, 1862) Youngest Major General MOH, Battle of Pea Ridge: Hinks, Edward Winslow (b. Hincks, Edward Winslow; aka Hinks, Edward Ward) Second Lieutenant, USA (April 26, 1861) Brigadier general, USV ...
Together with a regiment of the U.S. Army commanded by Major Samuel P. Heintzelman (who later became a notable general of the Union in the Civil War), Ford's Rangers took part in the Cortina War, and on December 27, 1859, they engaged and defeated Cortina's forces in the battle of Rio Grande City. Pursued and defeated by Ford and his Rangers ...
Heintzelman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ken Heintzelman (1915–2000), American baseball player; Samuel P. Heintzelman (1805–1880), United States Army General; Stuart Heintzelman (1876–1935), American soldier; Tom Heintzelman (born 1946), American baseball player
The fort's new commander, Maj. Samuel Heintzelman, united and coordinated all armed groups to put an end to the Cortina threat. Cortina retreated up the Rio Grande, until on December 27, 1859 Heintzelman and Ford engaged him in the Battle of Rio Grande City. Cortina's forces were decisively defeated, losing sixty men and all their equipment.