".... Augustus Whittemore Corliss who distinguished himself more than any other Yarmouth man in the War of the Rebellion entered the United States Army in 1861 as a volunteer and was soon made adjutant and afterward lieutenant of the First Rhode Island Cavalry. Later when the Army of the Potomac was mobilized he was made major of the Second Rhode Island Cavalry."¹

" He fought in the Potomac Campaign and made an enviable record. He was at the battle of Winchester with Sheridan and on that general's retreat to Harper's Ferry had charge of the blowing up of the forts, bridges and ware-houses along the line. At the battle of Maryland Heights he had a command, and when separated from the army, he bravely fought his way through the rebel lines and running across Longstreet's wagon train consisting of a hundred and three wagons, captured it. He also assisted in the capture of Port Hudson. At the close of the war he chose to enter the regular service and was commissioned first lieutenant of the Fifteenth Infantry from which he was promoted in 1873 to a captaincy in the Eighth Infantry."

" His subsequent career was so interesting that, although it is not a part of the present chapter, we turn aside to tell it. A greater part of his active career Corliss was stationed in the West and took part in many engagements with the Indians. He was in command of a company during the Sioux expedition in 1874, having charge of the Spotted Trail Agency until July of that year. He was in command of the Bannock Indian Campaign from June to September, [1878] and from September to December, 1881, was engaged in subduing the Apaches in Arizona. In 1897 he was promoted to major of the Seventeenth Cavalry and in this capacity served in the Cuban Campaign of the Spanish War, being wounded in the shoulder at El Carney when Roosevelt's Rough Riders made their famous charge on the first of July, 1898. He spent about two years in Cienfuegos, Cuba, during the reconstruction period and was then governor of Binario in the Philippines. In 1901 he was made lieutenant-colonel, and afterwards colonel of the Second Infantry, and in March of that year was sent to China to aid in putting down the Boxer Rebellion. Three years later he was made, by special act of Congress, a brigadier-general on the retired list in recognition of his distinguished services. After his retirement he lived in Denver, Colorado, where he died on the fourth of September, 1908...."

1. Ancient North Yarmouth And Yarmouth, Maine 1636 - 1936 A History, William Hutchinson Rowe, Chapter IX. Railroads, Division, And Civil War, Page 256 - 257, 1937,
[Date of Bannock Campaign changed by webmaster].