William Cogswell was a US Representative from Massachusetts and a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War who was appointed to the grade of brevet brigadier general, US Volunteers.
16 Facts About William Cogswell
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William Cogswell's father was a well-respected surgeon and one of the founders of the Massachusetts Republican Party.
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William Cogswell's grandfather, William Cogswell, was a surgeon's mate in the Revolutionary War who practiced medicine in Atkinson, New Hampshire, and gave land for the Atkinson Academy.
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William Cogswell attended Atkinson Academy, Kimball Union Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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When William Cogswell returned from his voyage he entered Harvard Law School.
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On September 8,1860, William Cogswell was admitted to the bar in Essex County, Massachusetts.
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William Cogswell worked for a while in the office of Attorney William D Northend, and in April 1861 Cogswell opened his own office in Salem, Massachusetts.
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William Cogswell was a private in the Second Corps of Cadets, a militia organization of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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William Cogswell was commissioned a captain in the Second Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, May 11,1861.
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William Cogswell was promoted to lieutenant colonel on October 23,1862, and to colonel on June 25,1863.
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Colonel William Cogswell was appointed brevet brigadier general of volunteers by appointment of President Abraham Lincoln on December 12,1864, to rank from December 15,1864, and the appointment was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 14,1865.
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Colonel and Brevet Brigadier General William Cogswell was mustered out of the US Volunteers on July 24,1865.
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William Cogswell served in the Massachusetts State Senate in 1885 and 1886.
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William Cogswell served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892.
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William Cogswell was elected as a Republican to the 50th United States Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4,1887, until his death in Washington, DC, May 22,1895.
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William Cogswell was interred in Harmony Grove Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts.