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Gillmore (QUINCY ADAMS an American)

QUINCY ADAMS, an American military officer; born in Black River, Lorair. co., O., Fe Feb. 28, 1825; graduated at West Point in 1849. He was promoted captain in 1861, and Brigadier-General of volunteers early in 1862. He displayed skill as an engineer by the capture of Fort Pulaski in April, 1862, and was appointed commander of Department of the South in June, 1863. He made a successful attack on Morris Island in July, 1863, began to bombard Fort Sumter and Charleston in August, and took Fort Wagner in September; Fort Sumter was reduced to a ruinous condition, dut its garrison continued to hold it till Feb. 17, 1865.

General Gillmore commanded the 10th Corps near Richmond in 1864, and was brevetted Major-General U. S. A., in 1865. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 7, 1888.