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Joseph Eldridge Hamblin

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Rank
  
Brevet Major General

Died
  
1870

Name
  
Joseph Hamblin

Battles/wars
  
American Civil War


Joseph Eldridge Hamblin

Place of burial
  
Woodside Cemetery, Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts

Service/branch
  
United States Army, Union Army

Allegiance
  
United States of America, Union

Battles and wars
  
American Civil War

Joseph Eldridge Hamblin (January 13, 1828 – July 3, 1870) was an American officer during the Civil War, who led a regiment and then a brigade in the Army of the Potomac.

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Biography

Hamblin, the son of Benjamin and Hannah (Sears) Hamblin, was born January 13, 1828 at Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He was an insurance broker at the outbreak of the war. Long a member of the 7th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, then the 7th Regiment of the New York militia, he enlisted in 1861 as adjutant in Duryea's Zouaves and served in Northern Virginia under Butler, McClellan, Meade, and Grant, and Sheridan in the 65th New York Infantry.

When Colonel Alexander Shaler became a general, Hamblin became regimental colonel in his place. He especially distinguished himself at the Battle of Cedar Creek, where he was wounded while leading a brigade of VI Corps. Hamblin was brevetted as a brigadier general and in 1865 promoted to full rank, with the brevet of major general for gallantry at Battle of Sailor's Creek.

After the war he was prominent in the New York National Guard and resumed work in the insurance business.

References

Joseph Eldridge Hamblin Wikipedia