Joseph Bradford Carr

Joseph Bradford Carr

Joseph Bradford Carr (August 16, 1828 – February 24, 1895) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Biography

Carr was born in Albany, New York, and worked as a tobacconist. He was appointed colonel of the 2nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment on May 14, 1861, and took part in the engagement at Big Bethel. He served under Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan throughout the Peninsula Campaign and was promoted to brigadier general on September 7, 1862, for gallantry at Malvern Hill. As a brigade commander in III Corps, Army of the Potomac, General Carr participated in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville (commanding a division during a part of the latter after the death of Hiram Berry).

He was distinguished for gallantry at Gettysburg, where he was wounded and his men stubbornly held their ground near the Peach Orchard. He commanded 3rd division III Corps in the autumn campaigns of 1863. A problem with his commission kept him off the battlefield until nearly the end of the war. He commanded a garrison in the Army of the James at the time of the Appomattox Campaign. In 1865, Carr was brevetted as a major general of volunteers.

Post-war and death

After the close of the war, he became a manufacturer in Troy, New York, a Republican politician in New York State He was Secretary of State of New York from 1880 to 1885. In 1885, he ran on the Republican ticket for Lieutenant Governor of New York with Ira Davenport, but was defeated.

Carr died in Troy, New York, and is buried there in Oakwood Cemetery.

ee also

* List of American Civil War generals

References

* Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., "Civil War High Commands", Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.

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