Background
Edward Ferrero was born on January 18, 1831, at Granada, in Spain, of Italian parents, who removed to New York a year or two after his birth.
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The Art of Dancing, Historically Illustrated - To Which is Added a Few Hints on Etiquette; Also, The Figures, Music, and Necessary Instruction for the ... of the Most Modern and Approved Dances
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Edward Ferrero
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The father established a dancing-school which became both successful and fashionable, and the son continued it with equal success, also teaching dancing at West Point.
Career
In 1859 he published The Art of Dancing, Historically Illustrated. Meanwhile he had entered the militia and by 1861 had worked up to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
He was mustered into the volunteer service as colonel of the 516t New York Infantry, October 14, 1861, and commanded his regiment in the North Carolina expedition of the following winter, fighting at Roanoke Island and New Berne.
At the second battle of Bull Run, at Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, he commanded a brigade. His appointment as brigadiergeneral of volunteers, which was delivered to him on the battlefield at Antietam, expired March 4, 1863, when the Senate adjourned without confirming his nomination, but he was reappointed, May 6, 1863.
The IX Corps, to which his brigade belonged, joined Grant’s army in June, and took part in the close of the Vicksburg campaign. In the defense of Knoxville, late in 1863, Ferrero commanded a division.
When the IX Corps returned to the Army of the Potomac, in the spring of 1864, he was transferred to the command of a newly organized colored division, which saw its first serious fighting at the Petersburg crater. Ferrcro’s division was originally selected by Burnside to lead the assault, as soon as the mine should be exploded, but both Meade and Grant disapproved the choice, believing that such a task should not be given to new and untried troops.
In the event, however, the leading division did not advance out of the crater, and it was Ferrero’s division, pushing through the disorganized troops in front, that actually delivered the assault on the heights beyond, and was repulsed with heavy loss. The responsibility for the failure was fixed in part upon Ferrero, who exercised little control over his troops and left them to fight practically uncommanded.
A similar criticism had been made of his conduct at the siege of Knoxville, where it was said that his division’s gallant defense against the Confederate assault of November 28-29, 1863, was made without any orders from him.
Apparently a division was a larger body of troops than he was competent to command in action. During the latter part of the war he was stationed in the defenses of Bermuda Hundred.
He was mustered out, August 24, 1865. Returning to New York, he leased and managed several large ballrooms in succession, including, for seventeen years, that in Tammany Hall.
He gave up his last holding, the Lenox Lyceum, a few months before his death.
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The Art of Dancing, Historically Illustrated - To Which is Added a Few Hints on Etiquette; Also, The Figures, Music, and Necessary Instruction for the ... of the Most Modern and Approved Dances
(This early work will prove valuable to anyone with an int...)
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The Art of Dancing, Historically Illustrated - To Which is Added a Few Hints on Etiquette; Also, The Figures, Music, and Necessary Instruction for the ... of the Most Modern and Approved Dances
Politics
He was a member of the Tammany Society, though he took no part in politics.
Membership
He was a member of the Tammany Society.
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February 11, 1899 (aged 68) -
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Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States -
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American