Raynors HCA 2018-03
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DURYEA, Hiram (1834-1914) Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Of French Huguenot ancestry, he was the son of Hendrick Vanderbilt Duryea and Elizabeth Wright. With his father and brothers he was employed in the family's profitable starch manufactory at Glen Cove, New York. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted as Captain of Company E, 5th New York Volunteer Infantry, a unit intially commanded by his distant cousin, Abram Duryee. Uniformed in the colorful garb of the French Zouave troops, "Duryee's Zouaves" established a proud reputation as one of the finest regiments in the Army of the Potomac. Promoted Major in August 1861 and Lieutenant Colonel the following month, he led the Zouaves through the battles of the Peninsula and Seven Days campaigns. On March 13, 1865 he was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers for "distinguished conduct at the battle of Gaines' Mill, Va." War-date Union officer Autograph Letter Signed “H.B. Duryea Major Genl.” of New York State Militia, 1pp. quarto, Head Quarters 2nd Divs. Brooklyn, New York, April 29, 1861, and reads in part: “...Lt. Col. Burns will with the 28th Regiment and the detachment of the 13th Regiment which will sail with him report to the President of the United States at Washington...” Fine condition.
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