GEN. GEORGE B. DANDY DEAD.
Veteran of Mexican and Civil Wars
Was 81 Years Old.
Gen. George Brown Dandy, U. S. A.,
retired, died last night at his residence
230 West Fifty-ninth Street. His body
will be taken from this city on Monday
and interred in the National Cemetery,
Arlington, Va. There will be no services
in this city.
Gen. Dandy was born in Macon, Ga., on
Feb. 11, 1830, and was the son of Rev.
James Hervey Dandy. The family moved
to New Jersey the same year and the fut-
ure General was educated in a private
school there. He married Anne Eliza
Slaughter of East Grand Forks, Minn., on
his birthday in 1873. He entered army life
in April, 1847, enlisting in the Tenth In-
fantry, raised for service in the Mexican
war, and served in that war until its close.
He studied medicine in Salem, N.J., and
became a cadet of the United States Mili-
tary Academy. He was brevetted Major
Sept 6, 1863, for "distinguished and gal-
lant conduct in the siege of Fort Wagner,
S.C."; Lieutenant Colonel Aug. 14, 1864,
"for gallant services in action at Deep
Bottom, Va."; Colonel March 13, 1865,
"for gallant services at Fort Gregg,
Va."; Brigadier General March 13, 1865.
He was in the battles at Port Walthall Junc-
tion, Drury's Bluff, Deep Bottom, Deep
Run, Russell's Mills, and the seige of Pe-
tersburg, Va. He was placed in command
of the Third Brigade, First Division,
Twenty-fourth Army Corps, and in 1865
took a prominent part in the capture of
Fort Gregg, south of Petersburg, Va., and
commanded his brigade at Appomattox
Court House.
Since the war Gen. Dandy had been in
the Quartermaster's Department. He
built Fort Phil Kearny, at the base of
the Big Horn Mountains, and Fort Abra-
ham Lincoln, N. D., 1873-5. He was in
charge of the general depot of the Quar-
termaster's subsistence departments at
Yuma, Arizona, and later at various cities.
Gen. Dandy lived until recently in Oma-
ha, Neb. His son, Dr. George B. Dandy,
lives at 348 West Fifty-seventh Street.
Maintained by
Sue Greenhagen.
E-mail:
greenhsh@morrisville.edu