CARROLL, Samuel Sprigg

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Affiliation:  Union

Born: September 21 1832, Takoma Park DC

Died:  January 28 1893, Montgomery Cty MD

Pre-War Profession: Graduated West Point 1856, frontier duty, quartermaster at West Point.

War Service: December 1861 Col. of 8th Ohio, commanded 4th Bde/Shields' Divn in Shenandoah Valley campaign, Cedar Mountain, wounded on the Rapidan, Fredericksburg, commanded 1st Bde/3rd Divn/II Corps at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness (w), Spotsylvania (w), May 1864 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded Dept of West Virginia, commanded a division of the Army of the Shenandoah.

Post War: Army service in inspector general's department, retired through invalidity 1869.