<p style="text-align:center"><strong>ROBERT S. GRANGER</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>No. 968 · Class of 1838</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>Died April 25, 1894, at Washington, D.C., aged 78 years.</strong></p><p>General Robert S. Granger, United States Army, retired, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May 24, 1816. His father was a cousin of Gideon Granger, and his mother was a sister of Attorney-General Henry Stanbery.</p><p>He was graduated at West Point in 1838. He became a First Lieutenant of Infantry in 1839. He served in the Florida War, and was Assistant Instructor of Tactics at West Point in 1843 and 1844. He served through the war with Mexico, receiving promotion as Captain, September 8, 1847. He then served on the Texas frontier.</p><p>On April 27, 1861, he was captured with Major Sibley's command on the coast of Texas. He was exchanged in August 1862. He was made a Major, September 9, 1861; organized a brigade at Mansfield, Ohio; was commandant at Louisville, Kentucky, and September 1, 1862, was commissioned Brigadier-General. He commanded the Kentucky State troops, and took part in the engagements at Shepherdsville, Lebanon Junction, and Lawrence, the latter winning for him the brevet of Colonel.</p><p>During 1863 he commanded a division in the districts of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, consecutively. In the early part of 1864 he superintended the defenses and organized the depot at Nashville. He was then assigned to the command of the District of Northern Alabama, and was engaged in the capture of General Roddy's camp, in the expulsion of General Wheeler from Middle Tennessee, and in the defense against General Forrest's raids.</p><p>In October 1864, he defended Decatur against General Hood's Army, made a sortie on the Confederate siege works, and received the brevet of Brigadier-General for those services. He commanded in Alabama, in 1865 during the occupation.</p><p>He was breveted Major-General for services during the war, was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel June 12, 1865; Colonel August 16, 1871, and was placed on the retired list January 1, 1873.-New York Times.</p><p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/11627">Annual Report, June 12, 1894, pp. 99�100 · U.S. Military Academy Library</a></p>