John G. Barnard

John Gross Barnard ( born May 19, 1815 in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, † May 14, 1882 in Detroit, Michigan) was an American military engineer and Major General of the Union Army during the Civil War.

Life

John Gross Barnard joined in 1833 as a lieutenant in the army and was until 1846 on the coastal fortifications in New Orleans and New York. In the Mexican War he attached Tampico, and 1850-1851 he measured the commissioned supervision Tehuantepec Railway. In 1855 he became Governor of the Military Academy at West Point, but in 1856 he took over the supervision of the defense works around New York.

During the Civil War he led the fixing of Washington and became Chief of genius corps of all properties under field armies. After the peace he was a colonel in the engineer corps of the regular army and a member of the Commission for the forts, the harbor and river blockages.

In 1881 he retired and soon died on 14 May 1882 in Detroit.

He wrote:

• Phenomena of the gyros - cope. (1857 New York, re-edited ud T.: . Problems of rotary motion 1872);
• Dangers and defenses of New York. (1859 );
• Notes on seacoast defense. (1862 );
• The battle of Bull Run. (1862 );
• Artillery operations of the army of the Potomac (1863 )