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John White Geary (December 30, 1819 – February 8, 1873) was an American lawyer, politician, Freemason, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco , a governor of the Kansas Territory , and the 16th governor of Pennsylvania .
The first engagement on Bolivar Heights was the Battle of Bolivar Heights, which took place exactly two years after the John Brown raid, on October 16, 1861. The day before, Union Colonel John White Geary crossed the Potomac River from Maryland Heights and captured wheat stored by the Confederates near Bolivar Heights. [4]
On October 15, 1861, Union Major General Nathaniel P. Banks ordered Colonel John White Geary to cross the Potomac River from Maryland Heights, part of Elk Ridge (Maryland) and capture wheat stored by the Confederate States Army near Bolivar Heights. [1] Geary crossed the river with 600 men but sent 500 of them back that night. [1]
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The Affair at Glenmore Farm was a small cavalry skirmish that took place October 16, 1862 in Loudoun County, Virginia between Confederate forces under First Lieutenant Frank Myers and Union forces under General John Geary during the American Civil War. The skirmish resulted in a Union victory.
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The 28th Pennsylvania Infantry was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a three-year enlistment and mustered on June 28, 1861, under the command of Colonel John W. Geary. (Unusually, the regiment initially contained fifteen companies.)
John Bidwell: 1819–1900 Chautauqua County, New York, U.S. politician, soldier founder of the city of Chico, California: Samuel Brannan: 1819–1889 Saco, Massachusetts (now Maine), U.S. politician, businessman, journalist first to publicize the California Gold Rush, and California's first millionaire: Juana Briones de Miranda: c. 1802 – 1889