Benjamin H. Grierson
Benjamin H. Grierson was
born at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1826. He entered the
military service in 1861 as aide-de-camp to Gen. B. M. Prentis.
In October, following, he was commissioned major to the 6th Illinois
Cavalry, and was successively promoted to the grades of colonel and
brigadier general during the next two years.
After the war closed he
was brevetted major general for meritorious service and commissioned
colonel of the 10th U. S. Calvary, which he commanded until April,
1890, when he was promoted to brigadier general.
He was retired because of
age in July, 1890. General Grierson selected the site upon which
Fort Sill was afterward build. He is living in retirement (1908)
at Jacksonville, Illinois.
Source: A
History of Oklahoma by Joseph B. Throburn and Isaac M.
Holcomb, Doub and Company San Francisco 1908.
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