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He was born on August 18, 1818, in New York City. His father died while his son was still very young.
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Report of the Engineer and Artillery Operations of the Army of the Potomac, from its organization to the close of the Peninsular Campaign, etc.
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Title: Report of the Engineer and Artillery Operations of the Army of the Potomac, from its organization to the close of the Peninsular Campaign, etc. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The MILITARY HISTORY & WARFARE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series offers titles on warfare from ancient to modern times. It includes detailed accounts of campaigns, battles, weapons, as well as the soldiers and commanders who devised, initiated, and supported war efforts throughout history. Specific analyses discuss the impact of war on societies, cultures, economies, and changing international relationships. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Barnard, John Gross; Barry, William Farquhar; 1863. 230 p., pl. 18. ; 8º. 9604.cc.2.
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William Farquhar Barry
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Under his mother's tutelage the boy grew up, attended the New York High School from 1826 to 1831 and thereafter received from a tutor an unusual knowledge of the classics. Admitted to the United States Military Academy, he graduated in 1838.
Career
His assignment to the 2nd Artillery took him to the Canadian border to enforce our neutrality during the "Patriot War, " then in progress in Canada. The headquarters of the regiment were at Buffalo. During the Mexican War in 1847, he accompanied his regiment to Tampico, where he became seriously ill. After his recovery he was designated acting assistant adjutant-general of Patterson's division at Vera Cruz and later, on reaching the City of Mexico, aide-de-camp to Gen. Worth, which position he filled until the termination of hostilities. Thereafter, until the beginning of the Civil War, he followed the routine of army duties. Promoted to captain in 1852, he fought the Seminole Indians in Florida; in 1857-58 he was in Kansas attempting, during its troublous ante bellum days, to maintain a difficult peace.
His outstanding qualifications as an artilleryman were recognized by his detail in 1858-59 on a board to revise the "System of Light Artillery Tactics". His services in the Civil War began with the defense of Fort Pickens, Florida, April 19, 1861. On May 14 he was promoted major and, in July, assigned as chief of artillery of the army commanded by his classmate McDowell. With this army he participated in the battle of Bull Run. Subsequently assigned as chief of artillery of McClellan's Army of the Potomac, he labored tirelessly to increase and improve the artillery, a task which, with the aid of the Ordnance Department, he accomplished. When he took up this work most of the ore for the guns was underground, the lumber for the carriages still growing in the forests, the leather for the harness yet covering the animals, the artillerists a mob of militia. By prodigious exertions the thirty guns on hand in July 1861 had been increased to 520 when McClellan moved in March 1862, the 400 horses to 11, 000, the 650 men to 12, 500 drilled artillerists, and the whole molded into an artillery organization.
By hard work he had accomplished much, yet much remained to be done when the Army of the Potomac took the field, March 14, 1862. In the Peninsular campaign which followed, Barry, now a brigadier-general of volunteers, took an active part in all the battles and movements of this unfortunate expedition. After the evacuation of the Peninsula he was, at his own request, relieved as chief of artillery, Army of the Potomac, and transferred to Washington as inspector of artillery of the Armies of the United States and chief of artillery of the defenses of Washington. In addition, he served as a member of numerous armament, fortification, and defense boards.
In March 1864 he was relieved and appointed chief of artillery, first on the staff of Gen. Grant and then, upon the latter's promotion, on the staff of Gen. W. T. Sherman, commanding the Military Division of the Mississippi, containing the three armies, of the Cumberland, of the Tennessee, and of Ohio. As Sherman's chief of artillery he engaged in most of the battles of the four-months' advance, which terminated in the capture of Atlanta; in the two-months' operation which had for its object the expulsion of Hood's army from Georgia and northeastern Alabama; in the three-months' campaign from Savannah through the two Carolinas, which terminated in the surrender of Johnston's army at Durham, on April 26, 1865. He received the brevet rank of major-general of volunteers and colonel in the United States Army, September 1, 1864, for his admirable conduct during the Atlanta campaign, and the brevets of brigadier and major-general in the United States Army, March 13, 1865, for service in the campaign which embraced Sherman's "March to the Sea, " and for "gallant and meritorious services in the field throughout the Rebellion".
On December 11, 1865, he was promoted colonel of the 2nd Artillery. Mustered out of the volunteer service in January 1866, Barry was given a special command on the northern frontier during the Fenian troubles of that year. In the fall of 1867 he was selected to organize and conduct the Artillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia, where he labored assiduously and successfully for ten years. In 1877, his health then much impaired, he was assigned to the command of Fort McHenry, where he died.
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Report of the Engineer and Artillery Operations of the Army of the Potomac, from its organization to the close of the Peninsular Campaign, etc.
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Report of the Engineer and Artillery Operations of the Army of the Potomac, from its organization to the close of the Peninsular Campaign, etc.
Personality
Tall, athletic, well-built, with keen eyes, aquiline nose, and rather marked features, he was a noticeable personage. Much of his success may be ascribed to his unusual ability as an organizer, with which he combined a genial, kindly manner and buoyant spirits.
Connections
In 1840 he married Kate McNight.
