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Major George Augustus Armes (May 29, 1844 - December 18, 1919) was a United States Army officer on the staff of Winfield Scott Hancock who participated in the Battle of the Saline River. He was court-martialed three times.
Biography
He was born in Fairfax, Virginia on May 29, 1844 to Josiah Orcutt Armes (1807-1873) and Caroline Olive Older (1801-1862).
He fought in the American Civil War on the side of the Union Army. He participated in the Battle of the Saline River on August 2, 1867. He married Lucy Hamilton Kerr (1851-1927) on October 14, 1874.
In 1900 he wrote Ups & Downs of an Army Officer. In 1902 he was shot by his former tenant. He married Marie Atkinson (1864-1944) on December 24, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He died on December 18, 1919 in Ventnor City, New Jersey.