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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
nce at Fort Smith. He died at Mount Nebo, September 8, 1896, at the age of eighty-seven years and eight months. Major-General Jeremy Francis Gilmer Major-General Jeremy Francis Gilmer was born in Guilford county, N. C., February 23, 1818. He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1839, number four in the class of which General Halleck was third. Receiving a second lieutenancy of engineers, he served in the military academy as assistant professor of engineering till June, 1840, and then as assistant engineer in building Fort Schuyler, New York harbor, until 1844, after which he was assistant to the chief engineer at Washington, D. C., until 1846, with promotion to first lieutenant in 1845. During the Mexican war he was chief engineer of the army of the West in New Mexico, constructing Fort Marcy at Santa Fe. He afterward served at Washington, and was superintending engineer of the repairs to various forts and the building of Forts Jackson and Pulaski, Georgia,