Joseph K. Mansfield
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Joseph King Fenno Mansfield was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer. He served as a Union general in the American Civil War and was fatally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
Maj. Gen. Joseph K. Mansfield, photograph by Mathew Brady
Mansfield's house in Middletown, Connecticut, built by his father-in-law in 1810. Now the home of the Middlesex County Historical Society.
Monument to Joseph K. Mansfield, Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD, October 2011
In 1880, the $500 United States Note featured a portrait of General Mansfield, killed in the Battle of Antietam of the American Civil War.
Joseph Gilbert Totten
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Joseph Gilbert Totten fought in the War of 1812, served as Chief of Engineers and was regent of the Smithsonian Institution and cofounder of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1836, he was elected a
Joseph K. Mansfield
…Civil War and was fatally wounded at the Battle of Antietam. Mansfield was born to Henry and Mary Fenno Mansfield in New Haven, Connecticut, a cousin of Joseph G. Totten. He entered the United States Military Academy when he was fourteen and graduated second in a class of forty in 1822. He then became a resident of…
Joseph Gilbert Totten
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