Amos Beebe Eaton

Infobox Military Person
name=Amos Beebe Eaton
born= birth date|1806|5|12
died= death date and age|1877|2|21|1806|5|12
placeofburial=


caption=General Amos B. Eaton
placeofbirth=Catskill, New York
placeofdeath=New Haven, Connecticut
placeofburial= New Haven, Connecticut
allegiance=flagicon|United States United States of America
branch= United States Army
serviceyears=1826-1874
rank= Brigadier General
unit=
commands=
battles= Mexican-American War American Civil War
awards=
relations=Elizabeth Selden Rogers (grandaughter)
laterwork=

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.

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 brevetted a 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 earned him the rank of brigadier general.

Eaton took over the position of commissary general of the Regular Army upon Brigadier General Joseph P. Taylor's retirement, and was brevetted a major general dating from March 13, 1865. He held the brevet until he retired in 1874, and 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.

ee also

*List of American Civil War generals

External links

*findagrave|11864 Retrieved on 2008-08-11

Persondata
NAME= Eaton, Amos Beebe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Union Army General
DATE OF BIRTH= May 12, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH= Catskill, New York
DATE OF DEATH= February 21, 1877
PLACE OF DEATH= New Haven, Connecticut