♂ Joseph AUDENRIED
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Joseph Audenried (1839-1880) was fresh from the US Military Academy at West Point as the American Civil War began in the Spring of 1861. On graduation he was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 3rd US Cavalry, beginning a career that would last nearly twenty years til his death at age 41.
He was a staff officerwith "Bull" Sumner at Antietam and Fredericksburg, US Grant at Vicksburg, and William Tecumseh Sherman to Atlanta and on the March to the Sea. He remained withSherman for the rest of his life: later in the Indian Wars in the West and thenon to Washington when Sherman became General-in-Chief of the US Army.
Audenried came from a prominent Philadelphia family and was appointed to West Point in 1857. He graduated 17th in the class of 1861 on June 24th, and wasassigned to the Cavalry. Less than a month later he was aide-de-camp (adc) on the staff of Brigadier General Daniel Tyler, who commanded one of the five FederalDivisions at the first battle of Bull Run (Manassas). In that service he firstmet Colonel William T. Sherman, who led one of Tyler's Brigades.
Following the Federal disaster at Manassas, Lieutenant Audenried was attached to the 2nd US Artillery regiment in the defenses of the capital through March 1862. He then joined the Army of the Potomac in the field as acting assistant adjutant-general (aaag) to the 1st Cavalry Brigade under Brigadier General William H. Emory.He saw action with them on the Peninsular Campaign at Williamsburg and Hanover Courthouse.
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