Asher Clayton Taylor

Asher Clayton Taylor (February 21, 1842 – January 20, 1922) was a career United States Army officer who served in the American Civil War and the Spanish–American War. He retired with the rank of brigadier general in 1904.

Biography Taylor was born in New York on February 21, 1842. He moved to LeRoy, Wisconsin, as a young boy and was educated there, until his college education at Hillsdale College, Michigan.

As a young man, he enlisted for duty in the American Civil War and served as a corporal in Company D of the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. When the regiment re-enlisted as a veteran regiment in 1864, Taylor was the regiment's sergeant major. By the end of the war, he was commissioned a first lieutenant and appointed adjutant to the colonel of the regiment.

After the war, he was offered a commission in the regular army and served with the 15th U.S. Infantry Regiment through their Indian Wars campaigns in Colorado and New Mexico. After his retirement, he and his wife toured the world, before settling down at Cottonwood, California.