Cullum
GEORGE WASHINGTON, an American military officer; born in New York City, Feb. 25, 1809; graduated from West Point in 1833; and was engaged for the next 28 years in engineering labors and in instructing at West Point on practical military engineering. During the Civil War he was chief of staff to the general-in-chief from November, 1861, to September, r, 1864, and superintendent of the military academy from September, 1804, to August, 1866.
From that time he was a member of the Board of Engineers for Fortifications, until he was placed on the retired list in 1874. At the time of his retirement he was colonel and brevet Major-General in CULP the regular army. Besides numerous military memoirs and reports, he published "Military Bridges with Indiarubber Pontoons," (1849) "Register of Officers of the U. S. Military Academy from 1802 to 1850" (1850); a translation of Duparc's "Elements of Military Art and History," with Notes , etc. (1863); a "Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy" (1868) (revised edition, edition , 1879); "Campaigns ; paigns of the War of 1812 Criticised" (1880) and contributed a number of articles to Johnson's "Universal Cyclopædia" (1874-1877). He died in New York City, Feb. 28, 1892, bequeathing $250,000 for the erection of a Memorial Hall on the grounds of the military academy, and $40,000 for furnishing it with military busts, paintings, and other appropriate objects.