1. John Grubb Parke was a United States Army engineer and a Union general in the American Civil War.
17 Facts About John Parke
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John Parke graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1849 and was commissioned a brevet second lieutenant in the Corps of Topographical Engineers.
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At the start of the Civil War, John Parke was appointed brigadier general of volunteers and commanded a brigade in the operations on the North Carolina coast in early 1862.
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John Parke received a brevet promotion for the Battle of Fort Macon and was promoted to major general of volunteers on July 18,1862.
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John Parke assumed command of the IX Corps and was sent to the Western Theater for the Vicksburg Campaign.
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John Parke then was Burnside's chief of staff in the Army of the Ohio in the defense of Knoxville.
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John Parke served as chief of staff to Burnside during the Overland Campaign, in which the latter commanded IX Corps, as well as in the beginning stages of the Siege of Petersburg.
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John Parke led it at the Battle of Globe Tavern, the Battle of Peebles' Farm, and the Battle of Boydton Plank Road.
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John Parke led the IX Corps through the fall of Petersburg and the Appomattox Campaign.
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John Parke was mustered out of the volunteer service on January 15,1866.
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John Parke served as an engineer, being promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel on March 4,1879.
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John Parke attained the rank of colonel on March 17,1884.
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John Parke served as superintendent of the United States Military Academy from August 28,1887, to June 24,1889, and he retired from the Army on July 2 of that year.
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John Parke wrote several reports on public improvements and exploration of the west.
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John Parke served as a cartographer, publishing maps of the New Mexico Territory and California.
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John Parke died in Washington, DC, leaving a wife, Ellen, but no children.
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John Parke is buried in the churchyard of Church of St James the Less in Philadelphia.