RARE " Quartermaster General " Henry Brewster Stanton Hand Written Document
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Henry Stanton (c 1796–1856) was a United States Army officer who was brevettedbrigadier-general for meritorious conduct in the Mexican War (1846–1848). Stanton born in Vermontabout 1796. He was appointed a lieutenant in the light artillery on June 29, 1813, assis...tant deputy quartermaster-general in July 1813, military secretaryto General George Izard in 1814, deputyquartermaster-general, with the rank of major on May 13, 1820, actingadjutant-general under General Thomas S.Jesup in Florida from 1836 to 1837, assistant quartermaster-general, with the rank of colonel on 7 July 7, 1838, and was brevetted brigadier-generalfor meritorious conduct in the Mexican War on January 1, 1847. He died at Fort Hamilton, New York on 1 August 1856.