MARTINDALE, John Henry

Affiliation:  Union

Born: March 20 1815, Sandy Hill NY

Died: December 13 1881, Nice, France

Pre-War Profession: Graduated West Point 1835, resigned US Army 1836, lawyer

War Service: August 1861 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded 1st Bde/1st Divn/III Corps in Peninsula campaign, Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Malvern Hill, military governor of Washington DC, commanded 2nd Divn/XVIII Corps at Cold Harbor, Bermuda Hundred, Petersburg, September 1864 resigned due to ill health.

Post War: Lawyer, state attorney-general