BURNS, William Wallace

Affiliation:  Union

Born: September 3 1825, Coshocton OH

Died: April 19 1892, Beaufort SC

Pre-War Profession: Graduated West Point 1847, recruiting duty, frontier duty, staff duty.

War Service: August 1861 Maj. and chief of commissary to McClellan in Western Virginia campaign, September 1861 appointed Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, commanded 2nd Bde/2nd Divn/II Corps in Peninsula campaign (w), commanded 1st Divn/IX Corps at Fredericksburg, resigned volunteer commission March 1863, reverted to rank of staff major, chief commissary in the Dept. of the Northwest.

Post War: Army service in the commissary department, retired 1889.