From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 489
 
JOHN WHITNEY BARLOW, youngest son of Nehemiah and Orinda, born in western New 
York, June 26, 1838; appointed from Wisconsin about 1857 as a cadet at the 
United States Military Academy, West Point; second lieutenant, second 
artillery, May 6, 1861; nine days later first lieutenant; brevet captain May 
27, 1862, for distinguished service at Hanover Court House; transferred to 
topographical engineers July 24, 1862; to engineers March 3, 1863; captain July 
3, 1863; brevet major for service in Atlanta campaign; brevet lieutenant-
colonel for conduct in battles before Nashville; major of engineers in 1869, 
and successively lieutenant-colonel and colonel; superintended services, and in 
1901 was retired as brigadier-general.  Now living at New London, Connecticut.

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