HOWE, Albion Parris

Affiliation:  Union

Born: March 13 1818, Standish ME

Died: January 25 1897, Cambridge MA

Pre-War Profession: Graduated West Point 1841, instructor at West Point, Mexican war, frontier and garrison duty, present at Harper's Ferry when J ohn Brown arrived.

War Service: 1861 Capt. in artillery, served under McClellan in Western Virginia, Peninsula campaign, commanded 1st Bde/1st Divn/IV Corps in Seven Days, June 1862 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded 2nd Bde/1st Divn/IV Corps at Second Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam, commanded 2nd Divn/VI Corps at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, commanded the Artillery depot in Washington

Post War: Army service, served in honor guard over Lincoln's corpse, member of the commission which tried the conspirators, retired 1882