CARROLL, Samuel Sprigg
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.