DAVID HAMMOND VINTON
USMA CLASS OF 1822
CULLUM'S REGISTER # 299

SECOND LIEUT., 4TH ARTILLERY - 1822
FIRST LIEUT., 6TH INFANTRY, 3RD ARTILLERY - 1825
CREEK AND FLORIDA WAR VETERAN, 1836 - 1839
QM GENERAL, FLORIDA, 1837 - 1838
CAPTAIN, ASST. QM, 3RD ARTILLERY, 1838 - 1840
MAJOR, QUARTERMASTER - 1847
MEXICAN WAR VETERAN
CHIEF QM, STAFF OF GEN. WOOL - 1848
CHIEF QM, DEPT OF THE WEST, 1852 - 1856
CHIEF QM, DEPT. OF TEXAS, 1857 - 1861
CONFEDERATE POW - 1861
LT. COLONEL, DEPT. QM. GENERAL- 1861
CHIEF QUARTERMASTER, NEW YORK CITY DEPOT, 1861 - 1867
BVT. COLONEL, BRIG. GENERAL - 1865
COLONEL, ASST. QM. - 1866
RETIRED 1866, 44 YEARS ARMY SERVICE

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CULLUM'S REGISTER

299 .......... ( Born R.I. ) .......... DAVID H. VINTON .......... ( Ap'd R. I. ) .......... 14
David Hammond Vinton: Born May 4, 1803, Providence R. I.

Military History: -- Cadet at the Military Academy, Sep. 1, 1818 to July 1, 1822, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to

BVT SECOND LIEUT., 1ST ARTILLERY, JULY 1, 1822
SECOND LIEUT., 4TH ARTILLERY, JULY 1, 1822

Served on Ordinance duty, Aug. 21, 1822 to June 10, 1823; on Recruiting

( TRANSFERRED TO 6TH INFANTRY, MAR. 19, 1823 )

service, 1823, in garrison at Ft. Atkinson, Ia, 1823-25

( FIRST LIEUT., 6TH INFANTRY, APR. 7, 1825)

Ordinance duty, Sep. 28, 1825 to Apr. 27, 1826; in garrison at Ft. Monroe,

( TRANSFERRED TO 3RD ARTILLERY , MAR. 24, 1826 )

Va. ( Artillery School for Practice ), 1826-28, ---and Ft. Independence, Mas., 1828-29, 1829-31; on Ordinance duty, Mar. 21, 1831, to Dec. 31, 1833; in garrison at Ft. Monroe, Va., 1834, on Engineer duty, Dec. 1834 to Aug. 1835; in garrison at Ft. Monroe, Va., 1835-36: in the Creek and Florida War on Quartermaster duty, 1836-39, being Quartermaster General of the Territory of Florida, Nov. 27, 1837 , to July 2,

( ASST. QUASRTERMASTER , OCT. 19, 1836 to JULY 7, 1838.)

; 1838, on Quartermaster duty on the Northern Frontier during Canada

( CAPTAIN, STAFF--- ASST. QUARTERMASTER, JULY 7, 1838 )

( CAPTAIN , 3RD ARTILLERY , JULY 7, 1838 to JUNE 18, 1846 )

Border Disturbances , at Brownsville, N. Y. , 1839-40,----Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. , 1840---and Detroit, Mich., 1841-42, in settling accounts at Brownsville, N. Y. , 1842-43, on Quartermaster duty at Ft. Johnston, N. C. , 1842--- Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., 1843-46, ---Buffalo, N. Y., 1846,---and New York City, making shipments to the army in Mexico, 1846-47;

( MAJOR, STAFF---QUARTERMASTER, MAR. 3, 1847 )

as Chief Quartermaster on the Staff of Maj- General Wool, in War with Mexico, 1848--- and on the Pacific Division, June 21, 1849, to Jan. 11, 1850, on Quartermaster duty at Boston, Mas. , 1851-52; as Chief quartermaster of the Department of the West, at St. Louis, Mo., 1852-56--- and of the Department of Texas, 1857-61, headquarters San Antonio,

( LIEUT. COL., STAFF--- DEPT. QUARTERMASTER GEN., AUG. 3, 1861 )

Tex., where he was taken prisoner by the Rebels, and put upon parole.

Served during the Rebellion of the Seceding States, 1861-66, as Chief

( BRVT. COLONEL and BRVT. BRIG-GENERAL, U. S. ARMY, MAR. 13, 1865, FOR FAITHFUL and MERITORIUS SERVICE DURING the REBELLION. )

Quartermaster at New York City, in charge of Depot for supplying the army with clothing and equipage, June 28, 1861, to Sep. 5, 1867, being

( COL. STAFF,---ASST. QUARTERMASTER GEN., JULY 29, 1866 )

( ex officio ) , COLONEL, U. S. VOLUNTEERS, AUG. 2, 1864 to JULY 29, 1866.

Retired from Active Service, July 29, 1866, under the Law of July 17, 1862, he being over the age of 62 years.

Served in settling his accounts, Sep. 5, 1867 to Feb.21, 1870.

Died Feb. 21, 1873, in Stamford, Ct., Age 70

CULLUM'S REGISTER NUMBER #299

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"Fourth Annual Reunion of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, at West Point, New York, June 12, 1873" published 1873 in New York by D. Van Nostrand, Publisher.

"DAVID H. VINTON
No. 299 - Class of 1822
Died Feb. 21, 1873, at Stamford, Conn., aged 70

General David H. Vinton, of the U. S. Army, died at his residence, in Stamford, Connecticut, of pneumonia, after a brief illness. He was a native of Providence, R. I., where he was born on the 4th of May, 1803. He was an elder brother of the Rev. Dr. Vinton, whose death is noticed in this necrology, and also of Alexander Vinton, of Boston, an elder brother John Rogers Vinton, of the Third Artillery, was killed during the siege of Vera Cruz.

In the summer of 1822, he was graduated fourteenth in his class, at the Military Academy at West Point, and then entered the Fourth Artillery. In that service he remained until the next year, when he was transferred to the infantry. He was ordnance officer at Fort Atkinson, in Iowa, until 1825, when he joined the Artillery-practice School at Fortress Monroe, and remained there about three years.

Subsequently, whilst on duty in Florida, Lieutenant Vinton acted as Quarter-master, and so satisfactory were his services, that he was made Quarter-master General of Florida, in 1837. He was employed in similar duty the next year, on the northern frontier of New York, and during the Canadian disturbances. In the same service he was employed at different points, until the winter of 1846, when he became Chief Quarter-master on the Staff of General Wool, with the rank of Major, and served with that officer in Mexico. In 1848, he was sent to the Pacific coast, and in 1851, he was Chief Quartermaster of the Department of the West, the headquarters of which were at St. Louis. With the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, he engaged in the same duties in Texas, in 1856, and was surrendered to the Confederates in 1861, by General Twiggs. He was then Deputy Quartermaster General.

Very soon after he was exchanged, Lieutenant-Colonel Vinton was brevetted Colonel, and during the Civil War, he was Chief Quartermaster at New York, where his services were of the greatest value to the nation. He was brevetted Brigadier-General in 1865, having already received the full commission of Colonel in 1864. In 1866 he became Assistant Quartermaster General, and the same year was placed upon the retired list, being over the age of 62 years. He was one of the most valued and justly trusted officers in the Army.

His long services in the Quartermaster's Department, wherein he always and conspicuously evinced the highest characteristics of a spotless soldier and gentleman, are well known to the Army, and is a fitting remembrance of a most worthy graduate of the Military Academy. (Secretary of the Association.)"

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Marriages:
[1] Pamela Brown
[2] Eliza Aresthusa Arnold, 2 Nov 1848

Children with Pamela Brown:
Pamela Williams Vinton [1830-1898]
+ sp: Hoel Keating Lawrence [1826-1869]
Jacob Brown Vinton [1832-1882]
+ sp: Carmelia Mancha [1845-1889]
James Williams Vinton [1833-]
+ sp: Sarah Van Baum [1838-]
Elizabeth Vinton [1835-]
+ sp: William Allen Hayes [1817-1891]
Hammond Vinton 1840-1891]
+ sp: Maria Eleanor Latrobe [1843-1911]
John Rogers Vinton [1842-1862]
Mary Atwell Vinton [1845-1910]

Other Children with Eliza Aresthusa Arnold:
. Harriet Arnold Vinton [1849-]
+ sp: John Clarkson [1844-]
. Ida Welles Vinton [1855-1915]
+ sp: Angelo Tillinghast Freedley [1850-1907]

Information Researched and Transcribed By :
ED CATTERSON
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11/27/2020