American military officer and lawyer
John Henry Martindale
(March 20, 1815 – December 13, 1881) was an American lawyer,
Union Army
general, and politician.
Early life
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Martindale was born in
Sandy Hill
,
Washington County, New York
, the son of Congressman
Henry C. Martindale
and Minerva Hitchcock Martindale. He entered the
United States Military Academy
at
West Point
in 1831, and graduated in 1835. He was appointed a
brevet
second lieutenant
, but resigned from the Army the next year and began to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1838, and commenced practice in
Batavia, New York
. In 1840, he married Emeline M. Holden. He was District Attorney of
Genesee County
from 1842 to 1846, and from 1848 to 1851. Then he removed to
Rochester, New York
.
Civil War
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On August 9, 1861, Martindale was commissioned a
brigadier general
of volunteers in the Union Army, and was assigned to command a brigade within the Union
Army of the Potomac
. He later participated in all the battles of the
Peninsula Campaign
in
V Corps
. After the retreat from
Malvern Hill
, he was brevetted a
major general
of volunteers, and appointed
Military Governor
of Washington, D.C., a post he held from November 1862 to May 1864. Afterward he returned to field service, fighting with the
XVIII Corps
in the
Bermuda Hundred Campaign
, the
Battle of Cold Harbor
and the
Siege of Petersburg
, commanding the corps briefly in mid-July 1864. In September 1864 he resigned his commission because of bad health.
Return To Post-War Life
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John H. Martindale was
New York State Attorney General
from 1866 to 1867, elected in
1865
on the
Republican
ticket.
In 1877, one of his clients tried to shoot him at his law office in
Rochester, New York
.
He died in
Nice
, Alpes-Maritimes, France, and was buried at the
Batavia Cemetery
in
Batavia, New York
.
See also
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References
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- Eicher, John H., and
Eicher, David J.
,
Civil War High Commands
, Stanford University Press, 2001,
ISBN
0-8047-3641-3
.
- Political Graveyard
- The "attempted murder" at his office
, in the New York
Times
on November 26, 1877
- His obituary
, transcribed from the New York
Times
on December 14, 1881
- List of New York Attorneys General
, at Office of the NYSAG
- Google Books
Life Sketches of State Officers, Senators, and Members of Assembly in the State of New York in 1867
by S. R. Harlow and H. H. Boone (Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany NY, 1867)
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