John White Geary was an American lawyer, politician, Freemason, and a Union general in the American Civil War. He was the final alcalde and first mayor of San Francisco, a governor of the Kansas Territory, and the 16th governor of Pennsylvania.
Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter. Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter., April 16, 1861. MAJOR: Superintendent Geary has just returned from the Nez Percé Reservation, where he has succeeded in making…
HEADQUARTERS, Fort Walla Walla, Wash. Ter., April 16, 1861. MAJOR: Superintendent Geary has just returned from the Nez Percé Reservation, where he has succeeded in making a very satisfactory arrangement…
HEADQUARTERS GENERAL BANKS’ DIVISION, Near Darnestown, Md., September 12, 1861. Colonel GEARY, Twenty-eighth Regiment Pa. Vols., Point of Rocks, Md. : SIR :.I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt…