J.H. Hobart Ward

from The New York Times, July 25, 1903:

GEN. WARD, VETERAN OF TWO
    WARS, KILLED BY A TRAIN.
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Fatal Accident at Monroe, Orange
  County--In Recent Years Was a
    Clerk of the Supreme Court.
 Gen. J.H. Hobart Ward, Clerk of Special
Term, Part V., of the Supreme Court, was
killed yesterday by a train on the Erie
Railroad at Monroe, Orange County. For
years he had been a familiar figure in the
courts building, having been a clerk in the
Superior Court from 1871 to 1896, when the
courts were consolidated. He bore his 
eighty years well, and looked the veteran
he was, his military bearing with his long
white mustache attracting much attention.
His residence in this city was at 230 East
Fiftieth Street.
 Gen. Ward was a veteran of both the
Mexican and the civil wars. He came of a
family of soldiers, his grandfather having
fought in the War of the Revolution, and
his father in the Mexican war. Both were
disabled by wounds which they received in
the service. Gen. Ward was born in New
York City on June 17, 1823. He was educat-
ed in Trinity Collegiate School, and enlist-
ed in the Seventh United States Infantry
when he was eighteen years old. In four
years he became Sergeant Major. In the
Mexican war he participated in the siege of
Fort Brown, received wounds at Monterey,
and was at the capture of Vera Cruz. He
was Assistant Commissary General of the
State of New York from 1851 to 1855, and
from then to 1859 was Commissary General.
 With the outbreak of the civil war he re-
cruited the Thirty-eighth New York Volun-
teers, was appointed Colonel, and led it at
the battle of Bull Run and in all the bat-
tles of the Peninsula campaign. He was
promoted Brigadier General of Volunteers
on October 4, 1862, and commanded a brigade
of the Third Corps at Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilder-
ness, and Spottsylvania. On the third day
at Gettysburg, where he was wounded, as
also at Kelly's Ford and Wapping Heights,
he was in temporary command of the di-
vision. He was again wounded at Spottsyl-
vania. He was frequently favorably men-
tioned and highly commended. At the end
of the war he returned to New York, where
he was engaged in civil employment.
 Gen. Ward was prominent in Masonic cir-
cles, being a member of the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite of Masonry. He had
received a thirty-third degree, and was
one of the Supreme Council of the Northern
Jurisdiction of the United States of Amer-
ica.