President Abraham Lincoln Appoints an Officer to the Commissary Department Who Would Later Serve as Aide-de-camp to General James Barnes at Gettysburg
Percy B. Spear, in the famed Fifth Corps at Little Round Top at Gettysburg, was cited for meritorious conduct at that battle
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He was later promoted to Lt. Colonel for gallantry in action at the Battle of Groveton
Document signed, with fine engravings of an eagle, flags and cannons, Washington, February 28, 1862, naming Percy B. Spear a Commissary of Subsistence of Volunteers with the rank of Captain, effective November 30, 1861. The document...
He was later promoted to Lt. Colonel for gallantry in action at the Battle of Groveton
Document signed, with fine engravings of an eagle, flags and cannons, Washington, February 28, 1862, naming Percy B. Spear a Commissary of Subsistence of Volunteers with the rank of Captain, effective November 30, 1861. The document is countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The appointment is listed in the U.S. Army Register.
The Civil War Commissary Department was responsible for procuring, storing, and distributing food to soldiers. The rations managed by the department included such things as pork, beef, bread, coffee, and soap.
But Spear did not serve solely as a Commissary for the entire war. He would soon serve an aide-de-camp in the Fifth Corps in the Gettysburg campaign, with Gen. James Barnes mentioning him with distinction in dispatches. Spear ended the war as a Brevet Major. In July 1865, he was appointed Lt. Colonel of Volunteers for meritorious service, and for gallantry in action at the Battle of Groveton in 1862. After the war, he was again named Commissary of Subsistence, this time at the recommendation of Gen. George G. Meade.
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