Charles A. Whittier

Charles Albert Whittier (August 6, 1840 – May 14, 1908) was a Union Army lieutenant colonel and staff officer during the American Civil War. In 1866, he was nominated and confirmed for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general of volunteers to rank from April 9, 1865, the date he met the flag of truce party of the Army of Northern Virginia as that army arrived to surrender to the Union Army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. He served as a United States Army brigadier general during the Spanish–American War. His paternal grandfather was Nathaniel Whittier.

Career Following his graduation, he began the study of law with the office of Brooks and Ball, but did not finish due to the onset of the Civil War. Whittier continued to serve as an assistant adjutant general in the VI Corps until January 31, 1865, when he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and became an assistant adjutant general in the II Corps (Union Army) until August 1, 1865.

After the end of the Civil War, Whittier continued to serve as an assistant adjutant general in the Union Army and then in the Regular Army from November 30, 1866, in the Military Division of the Pacific until April 19, 1869, when he became unassigned. Whittier was promoted to brigadier general on August 13, 1898. the daughter of Christopher Chadwick and sister of Dr. James Read Chadwick. In 1892, Lilia was listed on Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred". Together, they were the parents of:

Louise Chadwick Whittier (1872–1886), who died young. Susan Tucker Whittier (1874–1934), who married Prince Sergei Belosselsky-Belozersky (1867–1951), a wealthy Russian landowner and soldier, in 1894. Pauline Whittier (1876–1946), who married Ernest Iselin (1876–1954), in 1904. Ernest was a son of Adrian Iselin Jr. and a grandson of Adrian Georg Iselin.

In 1880, the Whittier's commissioned a large mansion that was designed by famed society architects McKim, Mead & White located at 270 Beacon Street in the Back Bay section of Boston. The also maintained a home in New York City at 247 Fifth Avenue. After a funeral at Grace Church in New York City, he was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. who married Florence Crane (1909–1969), the granddaughter of Richard Teller Crane, in 1943; and Prince Andrei Sergeivich Belosselsky-Belozersky (1909–1961), who did not marry.

Through his daughter Pauline, he was the grandfather of Comdr. Ernest Iselin Jr., a naval attaché in Belgrade; and Louise Iselin (d. 1982), who married Augustus K. Mills III, the head of public relations for Henry Ford II.

Published works Whittier, Charles Albert Egotistical Memoirs Typescript (1888)