Soldier, inventor, was born about 1823, in Plymouth, Mich. (Wayne Co). He attained great skill as a marksman; and in 1861 was made colonel of the first regiment United States sharpshooters, which he had organized. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers for his conduct at Chancellorsville; and major-general for gallantry at Gettysburg. After the close of the civil war he went to Russia and spent several years in superintending the manufacture of his rifle there for the Russian government. In 1888 he returned and sued the United States for $500,000 for infringing his patents in the Springfield rifle; and in 1892 the court of claims awarded him one hundred thousand dollars. He died March 31, 1893. in Washington, D.C.

Source: [Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]

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