Background
Forest, John Willliam De was born on May 31, 1826 in Humphreysville (now Seymour), Connecticut, United States. Son of John H. and Dotha (Woodward) DeForest.
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John Willliam De Forest
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Master of Arts (honorary), Amherst College, 1859.
Career
Travelled extensively and related his experience in books In Europe at outbreak of Civil War, immediately returned to American and recruited company (Company I, 12th Connecticut Volunteers), New Haven, Connecticut. Acted as inspector general 1st Division, XIX corpus, United States army, also aide on corps staff
Brevetted major United States Volunteers, 1865.
Wrote descriptions of battle scenes for Harper’s Monthly during Civil War. Commissioned captain Veterinary Reserve Corps of Company I 14th Regiment, after Civil War.
District commander Freedman’s Bar, with headquarters at Greenville, South Carolina. Mustered out of service, 1868.
Spent most of rest of life at New Haven.
Author: History of the Indians of Connecticut, 1851. Oriental Acquaintance, 1856. European Acquaintance, 1958.
Mission Ravnel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (novel), 1867.
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Married Harriet Silliman Shepard, June 5, 1856.
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American