Background
Ingalls, James Monroe was born on January 25, 1837 in Sutton, Vermont, United States. Son of James and Mary (Cass) Ingalls.
Ingalls, James Monroe was born on January 25, 1837 in Sutton, Vermont, United States. Son of James and Mary (Cass) Ingalls.
Preparatory education Evansville (Wisconsin) Seminary, 1859-1863. Graduate Artillery School, Fort Monroe. Virginia, 1872.
Thurston. Private and corporal Company A, 1st Battalion, 16th International, and commissary sergeant and q.-m. sergeant 16th Infantry, January 2, 1864-May 21, 1865. Second in command Lieutenant and First lieutenant, May 3, 1865. Transferred to 2d Infantry, April 17, 1869, to 1st Artillery, January 1, 1871.
Captain, July 1, 1880.
Major, June 1, 1897; transferred to 5th Artillery, October 28, 1899. Lieutenant colonel 3d Artillery, October 5, 1900.
Retired, January 25, 1901. Advanced to rank of colonel.
Retired, by act of April 23, 1904.
Participated in Atlanta campaign and was engaged in reconstruction duty in South until January 1, 1871. Founded Department of Ballistics at United States Artillery School, Fort Monroe, 1882. Was principal instructor until school suspended operations, April 1898, at outbreak of war with Spain.
Author: Exterior Ballistics, 1883, 85, 86.
Ballistic Machines, 1885. Handbook of Problems in Exterior Ballistics, 1890, 1901.
Interior Ballistics, 1894, 1911. Ballistic Tables, 1891, 1900.
Ballistics for the Instruction of Artillery Gunners, 1893.
Wrote: Articles Gunnery Gunpowder, Johnson’s Universal Cyclopædia, 1894. Article Ballistics in New International Encyclopedia, second edition, 1915. Home: Providence, Rhode Island
Married Eliza H. Niles, July 29, 1860. Married second, Harriet Elizabeth Thurston, July 17, 1877. Children: Arthur Niles, Hilda Eliza.