Henry B. Carrington
| Henry Beebee Carrington | |
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Henry B. Carrington
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| Born |
March 2, 1824 Wallingford, Connecticut |
| Died | October 26, 1912 (aged 88) Boston, Massachusetts |
| Place of burial | Fairview Cemetery Hyde Park, Massachusetts |
| Allegiance |
United States of America Union |
| Service/branch |
United States Army Union Army |
| Years of service | 1861–1870 |
| Rank |
 Colonel (USA) Brigadier General (USV) |
| Commands held |
18th U. S. Infantry District of Indiana |
| Battles/wars |
American Civil War Indian Wars |
| Other work |
Adjutant-General of Ohio author, lawyer |
Henry Beebee Carrington (March 2, 1824 – October 26, 1912) was a lawyer, professor, prolific author, and an officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and in the Old West during Red Cloud's War. A noted engineer, he constructed a series of forts to protect the Bozeman Trail, but suffered a major defeat at the hands of the warchief Red Cloud.
Carrington was born in Wallingford, Connecticut. An ardent abolitionist in his youth, he was graduated from Yale University in 1845. He was professor of natural science and Greek at the Irving Institute in Tarrytown, New York from 1846 to 1847. Under the influence of the school's founder, Washington Irving, he subsequently wrote Battles of the American Revolution, which appeared in 1876.
In 1847 he studied at Yale Law School, taught school briefly at a women's institute, and the following year moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he practiced his profession in partnership with William Dennison, Jr. (who was to become Governor of Ohio in 1860). Carrington was an active anti-slavery Whig, and helped organize the Republican Party in 1854. He became a close friend and supporter of Governor Salmon P. Chase and the later appointed him Judge Advocate General in 1857. In the next year he became Adjutant-General of Ohio and was charged with reorganizing the state militia.
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