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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 fort's new commander, Major 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.
BG Samuel P. Heintzelman, Commanding ... Battery H, 1st Pennsylvania Artillery: Cpt James Brady Four 10-lb Parrotts; ... Fort Carroll (present-day Joint ...
The Battle of La Ebonal was fought in December 1859 near Brownsville, Texas during the First Cortina War.Following the Brownsville Raid, on September 28, and a few skirmishes with the Texas Rangers, rebel leader Juan Cortina led his small army into the hills outside of town and dug in near a series of cattle ranches.
In August 1775, Brady was 19 years old when he and his brother enlisted as privates in the American Revolution. Brady fought at the battle of Boston, New York, Trenton, Princeton and Brandywine Creek.
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.
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