Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A nephew of Presidential First Lady Dolly Madison and an 1835 graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, he rose to prominence as a member of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. When the Civil War began he offered his services to the Union, and was commissioned as a Colonel and Aide-de-Camp, US Volunteers on November 29, 1861. Assigned to the staff of Major General Henry Wager Halleck, he served with him through the balance of the war as General Halleck served as Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army, then as Chief-of-Staff under Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Colonel Cutts was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "meritorious services during the war", and was honorably mustered out on June 1, 1865.
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. A nephew of Presidential First Lady Dolly Madison and an 1835 graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, he rose to prominence as a member of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. When the Civil War began he offered his services to the Union, and was commissioned as a Colonel and Aide-de-Camp, US Volunteers on November 29, 1861. Assigned to the staff of Major General Henry Wager Halleck, he served with him through the balance of the war as General Halleck served as Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army, then as Chief-of-Staff under Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. Colonel Cutts was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for "meritorious services during the war", and was honorably mustered out on June 1, 1865.
Bio by: Lynx Lady
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Tombstone is broken, moss-covered and partially illegible. Transcription obtained from cemetery's online database.
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