Nelson B. Sweitzer

from The New York Times, March 8, 1898:

   Death of Gen. Nelson B. Sweitzer.
 Gen. Nelson B. Sweitzer, United States
Army, retired, died at Washington yester-
day. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and
was graduated from West Point in the same
class as McPherson, Schofield, and Sheridan,
in 1853.
 During the war he served gallantly as a
Colonel of New York cavalry regiments,
and was breveted five times for meritorious
services in the peninsula campaign in Vir-
ginia. He leaves a wife, two sons, and a
daughter.