★ Cullum, George W.

George Washington Cullum​

Born: February 25, 1809

Birthplace: New York City, New York

Father: Arthur Cullum 1780 – 1829

Mother: Harriet Sturges 1781 – 1862

(Buried: Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, Pennsylvania)​

Wife: Elizabeth Hamilton 1831 – 1884

(Buried: Green – Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York)​

Education:

1833: Graduated from West Point Military Academy – (3rd​ in class)​

Occupation before War:

1833 – 1836: Brevet 2nd​ Lt. United States Army Corps of Engineers​

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1833 – 1834: Assistant Engineer, Construction of Fort Adams​

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1836 – 1838: 2nd​ Lt. United States Army Corps of Engineers​

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1838 – 1861: Captain, United States Army Corps of Engineers​

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1846 – 1847: Served at West Point as Superintendent Engineer​

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1852 – 1855: Inspector of Practical Engineering at West Point​

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1860: Member of Board to Revise Program at West Point​

Civil War Career:

1861: Lt. Colonel and Aide – de – camp to General in Chief​

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1861: Aide to Lt. General Winfield Scott​

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1861: Colonel and Aide – de – camp to General in Chief​

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1861 – 1863: Major, United States Army Corps of Engineers​

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1861 – 1866: Brigadier General, Union Army Volunteers​

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1861 – 1864: Member, United States Sanitary Commission​

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1861 – 1862: Chief Engineer, Union Army Dept. of Missouri​

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1861 – 1864: Chief of Staff of Major General Henry W. Halleck​

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1861 – 1862: Member of Board to examine fortifications in St. Louis

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1862: Member of Western Sanitary Commission​

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1862: Chief Engineer of the Armies command by Gen. Halleck​

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1862: Served in the Siege of Corinth, Mississippi​

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1862: Member of Board to examine defenses of Washington, D.C.​

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1862 – 1863: Member, Board to examine Timby's Revolving Iron​

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1863 – 1864: Member, Ponton Board to examine Military Bridges​

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1863 – 1867: Lt. Colonel, United States Army Corps of Engineers​

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1863 – 1864: Member of Board to examine Engineers for Promotion​

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1864 – 1866: Superintendent of West Point Military Academy​

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1865: Brevetted Colonel and Brig. General for his service in the war​

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1865: Brevetted Major General for his service in the War​

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1866: Mustered out of the Volunteer Army on September 1st​​

Occupation after War:

1863 – 1867: Lt. Colonel, United States Army Corps of Engineers​

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1866 – 1867: Member board of Engineers for United States Army​

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1867 – 1874: Colonel, United States Army Corps of Engineers​

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1872: Member of Board to examine Engineers for Promotion​

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1874: Retired from United States Army on January 13th​ due to age​

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1874 – 1892: Vice President, American Geographical Society​

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1880 – 1892: President, Geographical Library Society of New York​

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1880 – 1882: Manager, New York Association for improving the poor​

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1880 – 1881: Member of Farragut Monument Association​

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His most outstanding work was Biographical Register of Officers and Graduates of West Point Military Academy​

Died: February 28, 1892

Place of Death: New York City, New York

Cause of Death: Pneumonia

Age at time of Death: 83 years old

Burial Place: Green – Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York

 

[Pollaco]

His book "Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates if the United States Military Academy" is a 3 volume work published in 1890. It was to be updated every decade as specified in his will.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Brig. General George W. Cullum! Salutes remembering General Cullum on his birthday.

 

[ErnieMac]

Cullum's Register is available online and I use it frequently for research. He details each officer's posting and promotion through the officer's career, frequently concluding with a brief biography. Though understandable for the time, but unfortunate from a historical perspective, Cullum terminates each Confederate officer's military career with a statement reading "Joined in the Rebellion of 1861‑66 against the United States."

Cullum's Register

Part of a large site on West Point. Parent site on American history includes 6200 webpages, 92 books, 38,000 pages of print.

penelope.uchicago.edu

 

[GELongstreet]

... Though understandable for the time, but unfortunate from a historical perspective, Cullum terminates each Confederate officer's military career with a statement reading "Joined in the Rebellion of 1861‑66 against the United States."

Cullum's Register

Part of a large site on West Point. Parent site on American history includes 6200 webpages, 92 books, 38,000 pages of print.

penelope.uchicago.edu

Luckily for us the excellent website of Bill Thayer, which you just linked, tries to help this by adding brief details about Confederate service and links to obituaries.

 

[Pollaco]

This biography states that Cullum was on the board that examined "Timby's Revolving Iron Tower". With that description and a little imagination one can wonder what that "invention" would have looked like.

 

[ErnieMac]

This biography states that Cullum was on the board that examined "Timby's Relvoving Iron Tower". With that description and a little imagination one can wonder what that "invention" would have looked like.

See links.

Theodore Timby - short biography from People’s Book of Biography (1873).

T. R. Timby's Turret | Naval War - At Sea & Along Inland Waterways

Theodore R. Timby's long disputed Ericsson's claim as the originator of the rotating turret, as was mounted on the original USS Monitor. Timby could document the idea as his as early as the 1840s, but Ericsson insisted he had come up with it as early as 1828. "TIMBY, Theodore Ruggles, inventor...

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