Albemarle Cady

Albemarle Cady (February 15, 1807 – March 14, 1888) was a career United States Army officer who served in the Second Seminole War, Mexican–American War, First Sioux War and the American Civil War. During the Civil War, he was briefly lieutenant colonel of the 7th Infantry Regiment (United States). He then served in administrative positions in the Department of the Pacific, including the District of Oregon. He received brevet appointments for his service in the Mexican–American War and the Civil War. He retired from the Regular Army as a colonel on May 18, 1864. On July 17, 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated and on July 26, 1866, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of Cady as a brevet brigadier general in the Regular Army, to rank from March 13, 1865. He graduated from Norwich Military Academy in 1825.

Cady was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on frontier duty until 1833 and then at Jefferson Barracks Military Post on the same duty during 1833–1834.

Cady served in the Second Seminole War from 1838 to 1842.

Cady was appointed brevet major, September 8, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the Battle of Molino del Rey. Cady was a member of the Aztec Club of 1847, which was founded as a military society of officers who served with the United States Army in the Mexican–American War.

Assignments: 1848–1861

After the Mexican–American War, Cady was assigned to garrison duty at Jefferson Barracks Military Post, Missouri, in 1848 and Fort Scott, Kansas, also in 1848. The U.S. force, under the overall command of Brigadier General William S. Harney, killed 86 Sioux, including women and children, and took 70 prisoners, mostly women and children, while losing 27 men killed. The attack on the Sioux was a "punitive expedition" in retaliation for the Grattan massacre. Cady continued in command near Fort Pierre, Dakota Territory, in 1855 and 1856.

American Civil War

Cady was promoted to lieutenant colonel, 7th Infantry Regiment (United States), June 6, 1861. Then he was awaiting orders and was before the Retiring Board at Wilmington, Delaware, from July 31, 1863, to February 6, 1864.

Later life

Cady was unemployed from October 25, 1865, to December 18, 1866.

From December 1866 to March 31, 1867, Cady served on a Court of Inquiry at New York City.

Death

Albemarle Cady died at New Haven, Connecticut on March 14, 1888, at aged 81. He is buried at the Old North Cemetery (Concord, New Hampshire).