2023-08 Raynors HCA Live
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Robert Cumming Schenck (1809-1890) was a Union Army general in the American Civil War, and American diplomatic representative to Brazil and the United Kingdom. He was at both battles of Bull Run and took part in Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862, and the Battle of Cross Keys. Ordered to join the Army of Virginia, then under Maj. Gen. John Pope, he joined it just before the Second Battle of Bull Run, and was in the thick of the fighting of the two days that followed, being severely wounded on the second day, and his right arm permanently injured. He was promoted to major general September 18, 1862 to rank from August 30, 1862. Schenck was unfit for field duty for six months, but was assigned to the command of VIII Corps, embracing the turbulent citizens of Maryland, repressing all turbulence and acts of disloyalty or any complicity with treason.Document Signed "Robert Schenck, Maj. General" Commanding" on consolidated Morning Report of Middle Department, 8th Army Corp", 30" x 10-1/2". The document shows the strength at 36,889 with 84 General and Staff Officers.
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