William F. Barry
1818 - 1879

from The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 19, 1879:

              OBITUARY.
        General William F. Barry.
  BALTIMORE, July 18.--General William F.
Barry, colonel of the Secnd Artillery, in
command at Fort McHenry, died at one
o'clock to-day.  He had been suffering a long
while from disease of the kidneys, and recently
obtained leave of absence, and was preparing
to leave his post for the springs. A few days
since General Barry accompanied Collector
Thomas, Mayor Latrobe and a party of dis-
tinguished gentlemen down the bay on the
revenue cutter Ewing, and on his return was
seized with an attack of dysentery, which be-
coming complicated with malarial fever,
caused his death.
  General William Farquhar Barry was born
in New York city, on August 18, 1818, and
graduated at West Point in 1838. Entering
the Fourth Artillery, he served on the northern
frontier during the trouble in Canada, part of
the time on an armed schooner on the Lakes.
In 1838 he assisted Major Ringgold in organ
izing the first battery of light artillery intro-
duced into our army. He was on duty in Rhode
Island during the famous Dorr rebellion in
that State, and was in active service through-
out the Mexican war, being on General Patter-
son's staff in 1847, and on General Worth's in
1848. By 1852 he had become a captain, and
during the next two years served against
the Seminole Indians in Florida. In 1857 he had
another taste of Indian warfare in the cam-
paign against the Sioux and Chippewas, in
Minnesota. In April, 1861, he reinforced Fort
Pickens, in the harbor of Pensacola, with a
company of flying artillery. He was made
major of the Fifth Artillery on May 14
of the same year, and joined General Mc-
Dowell's army in July, participating in the
disasterous battle of Bull Run. On the 23d of
the month he was charged with the important
duty of reorganizing the field artillery of the
army, and on August 20 was appointed a brig-
adier-general of volunteers. He was assigned
to General McClellan's staff, as Chief of Artil-
lery of the Army of the Potomac, and took
[part] in the Peninsular campaign in that capa-
city. On August 7, 1863, he became lieuten-
ant-colonel of the First Artillery, snd was
made colonel of the Second Artillery on De-
cember 11, 1865. Meanwhile he served as
chief of artillery on the staff of General Sher-
man from 1864 to the close of the war, being
promoted to the rank of major-general of ar-
tillery for his services during the Atlanta cam-
paign in September, 1864. He was breveted
brigadier-general of the regular army for his
services in the campaign which ended in the
surrender of Johnston's army, and major-gen-
eral for his services throughout the rebellion.
He was appointed, in 1867, to the command of
the artillery school at Fortress Monroe, which
position he occupied with great credit to him-
self and the service until his recent assignment
to the command of Fort McHenry, near Balti-
more.