ANDREWS, Christopher Columbus

Affiliation:  Union

Born: October 27 1829, Hillsboro NH

Died: September 21 1922, St Paul MN

Pre-War Profession: Lawyer, Treasury clerk, writer, politician.

War Service: 1861 Pvt., Capt. in 3rd Minnesota, captured in Tennessee, exchanged after 3 months, Lt. Col., August 1863 Col., Arkansas campaign, January 1864 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded 2nd Divn/XIII Corps in Mobile campaign.

Post War: Politician, minister to Norway and Sweden, newspaper editor, census supervisor, consul general to Brazil, forest commissioner