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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.
Following the failure of the California Militia against the Quechan people (Yuma Indians), in the Gila Expedition, the U. S. Army sent the Yuma Expedition under Captain Samuel P. Heintzelman, to establish a post at Yuma Crossing of the Colorado River in the vicinity where it met the Gila River in the Lower Colorado River Valley region of California.
Civil War to the Bloody End: The Life & Times of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 1585445355. ISBN 9781585445356. United States Congress (1878). Index to the reports of committees of the house of representatives for the first and second of the forty fifty congress. United States Government Printing Office.
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 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.
A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole. Samuel Woodward, 27, was sentenced ...
Prosecutors said Samuel Woodward killed Blaze Bernstein, 19, after reconnecting with him on a dating app for men seeking men in 2018. California man with neo-Nazi ties sentenced to life in killing ...
SS Samuel Heintzelman (MC hull number 651) was a Liberty ship built in the United States during World War II. Named after Samuel Heintzelman, a United States Army general, the ship was laid down by California Shipbuilding Corporation at Terminal Island in Los Angeles, and launched on 27 August 1942. [2] It was operated by Coastwise Line.