Amos Beebe Eaton

Amos Beebe Eaton (May 12, 1806 – February 21, 1877) was a career officer in the United States Army, serving as a general for the Union during the American Civil War.

Amos Beebe Eaton
General Amos B. Eaton
Born(1806-05-12)May 12, 1806
Catskill, New York
DiedFebruary 21, 1877(1877-02-21) (aged 70)
New Haven, Connecticut
Place of burial
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut
AllegianceUnited States of America
Union
Service/branchUnited States Army
Union Army
Years of service1826–1874
Rank Brigadier General
Brevet Major General
Battles/warsMexican–American War
American Civil War
RelationsAmos Eaton (father)
Elizabeth Selden Rogers (granddaughter)
Daniel Cady Eaton (son)

Biography

Amos B. Eaton was born in Catskill, New York. He graduated from West Point in 1826; he was an infantry lieutenant until the Florida campaigns of the late 1830s. After that, his only fighting experiences took place in the Mexican–American War, for which service he was appointed a brevet major. Eaton served for 12 years as a field officer in the U.S. Army, then joined the commissary department for 23 years.

Appointed a lieutenant colonel and assistant commissary general in 1861, Eaton was given the task of creating an effective supply system for the fledgling Union army. The large number of troops entering the Army at the beginning of the war was overloading the existing system. His work provisioning and distributing supplies to the troops led to President Abraham Lincoln's July 6, 1864, appointment of Eaton to the rank of brigadier general, U.S. Army, to rank from June 29, 1864.[1] President Lincoln formally nominated Eaton for the appointment on June 30, 1864, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on July 2, 1864.[1] Eaton took over the position of commissary general of the Regular Army at the same time due to the death of Brigadier General Joseph P. Taylor on June 29, 1864.[2] On March 8, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Eaton for appointment to the brevet grade of major general to rank from March 13, 1865, and the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination on May 4, 1866, and re-confirmed it on July 14, 1866, in order to have line officers precede staff officers in rank.[3] He retired May 1, 1874, with the grade of brigadier general, USA, and commissary general of subsistence.[4] He then moved to New Haven, Connecticut. Eaton died in New Haven, on February 21, 1877, and was buried there.

Relations

His daughter Frances Spencer Eaton married Charles Atwood White, the great-grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman. They were the parents of U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson's wife Mabel Wellington Stimson and women's suffrage leader Elizabeth Selden Rogers. Eaton is the son of Amos Eaton.

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See also

Notes
  1. Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. p. 716
  2. Eicher, 2001, p. 717
  3. Eicher, 2001 p. 707
  4. Eicher, 2001, p. 221

References
  • Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
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