J. Watts de Leyster :

..

LL.D.

MASTER OF ARTS, Columbia College, City of New York, 1879.

ROSE HILL, IN THE TOWNSHIP OF RED HOOK, NEAR TIVOLI P. O., DUCHESS Co., N, Y.

1st January, 1873.

JUDGE ADVOCATE, with the rank MAJOR, 1845.

COLONEL N. Y. S. I., 1846; assigned for "Meritorious Conduct," 1849.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL for "Important Service," [first appointment-in N. Y. State-to that rank,
hitherto elective,] 1851, M. F. S. N. Y.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL, S. N. Y., 1855.

BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL, S. N. Y., for "Meritorious Services,"

[first and only general officer receiving such an honor (the highest) from S. N. Y., and the only officer thus brevetted (Major-General) in the United States.]

by Special Act," or "Concurrent Resolution, New York State Legislature, April, 1866.

LAWS OF NEW YORK, Vol. 2.-89th Session, 1866, Page 2142.
Concurrent Resolution requesting the Governor to confer upon Brigadier-General J. WATTS
DE PUYSTER [de Peyster] the brevet rank of Major* [General] in the National Guard
of New York.

RESOLVED, (if the Senate concur.) That, it being a grateful duty to acknowledge in a suitable manner the services of a distinguished citizen of this State, rendered to the National Guard and to the United States prior to and during the Rebellion, the Governor be and he is hereby authorized and requested to confer upon Brigadier-General J. WATTS DE PUYSTER [de Peyster] the brevet rank of Major-General in the National Guard of New York, for meritorious services, which inark of honor shall be stated in the Commission conferred.

STATE OF NEW YORK, in Assembly, April 9th, 1866.
By order of the Assembly,

The foregoing resolution was duly passed.

J. B. CUSHMAN, Clerk.
STATE OF NEW YORK, in Senate, April 20th, 1866.
By order of the Senate,
JAS, TERWILLIGER, Clerk.

The foregoing Resolution was duly passed.
So in original.

MILITARY AGENT, S. N. Y., (in Europe,) 1851-53.
HONORARY MEMBER of the MILITARY ORDER of the LOYAL LEGION of the United States.
FIRST HONORARY MEMBER Third (Army of the Potomac) Corps Union.

MEMBER-10th June, 1872, DIRECTOR-of the GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION.
MEMBER of the NETHERLANDISH LITERARY ASSOCIATION
[Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde]

at Leyden, Holland.

RECIPIENT, 1856, of Three Silver Medals from H. R. M. OSCAR, King of Sweden and Norway, &c., for a Military Biography of LEONARD TORSTENSON, Field Marshal, Generalissimo; of a Gold Medal, in 1852, from WASHINGTON HUNT, Governor S. N. Y., for "Efforts to Improve the Military System of New York," &c., &c., and Suggestions for a Paid Fire Department, with

Steam Fire Engines, &c., &c.;

of a Gold Medal, in 1852, from the FIELD AND STAFF OFFICERS of his Command, 9th
Brig., 3d Div., N.Y.S. Troops, "In Testimony of their Esteem and Appreciation of
Efforts towards the Establishment of an Efficient Militia, &c.; in 1870, of

a Magnificent BADGE, MEDAL and CLASP, voted at the Annual

Meeting of the Third Corps (Army of the Potomac)

Union, held at Boston, Mass., Thursday,

5th May, 1870, when

"A Resolution was adopted to present a Gold Medal of the value of $500 to Gen. J. WATTS DE
PEYSTER, of New York, as a testimonial of the appreciation by the Corps of his eminent
services in placing upon record the true history of its achievements, aud in defending its
commanders and their men from written abuse and misrepresentation;"

and of several other Badges, Medals, etc., for services in connection with the military service
of the State of New York.
HONORARY MEMBER of the NEW JERSEY and of the MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETIES,
and of the PRENOKOSMIAN SOCIETY of PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE, Gettysburg;
of the PHILOSOPHIAN SOCIETY, Missionary Institute, Selin's Grove,

and of the EUTERPEAN SOCIETY, Mahlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, and of the GASMAN LITERARY SOCIETY, and of the PHILOLOGIAN SOCIETY of Nebraska College, Nebraska City. HONORARY MEMBER of the N. Y. BURNS CLUB,

[Burns was a member of the Dumfries Volunteers, of which Col. ARENT SCHUYLER DE PEVSTER, 8th, or King's Foot, B. A., was Colonel, to whom the National Bard of Scotland" addressed, just before his death, in 1796, his " POEM ON LIFE."]

and LIFE MEMBER of the ST. NICHOLAS SOCIETY of NEW YORK, (of which city JOHANNES DE PEYSTER, first of the name in the New World, was Scheppen, 1655, Alderman, 1666, Burgomaster, 1673, Deputy Mayor, 1677. Mayoralty offered and refused.)

MEMBER

of the NEW YORK, of the RHODE ISLAND (Newport) and of the PENNSYLVANIA HISTORICAL SOCIETIES, and of the MILITARY ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

LIFE MEMBER

of the HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN,

and of the NUMISMATIC AND ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK.

CORRESPONDING MEMBER

of the STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES of MAINE, of VERMONT, of RHODE ISLAND, (Providence,)
of CONNECTICUT and of WISCONSIN; of the LONG ISLAND and of the BUFFALO
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES; of the NEW ENGLAND HISTORIO-GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETY; of the QUEBEC LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY;

of the NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

of PHILADELPHIA, (Pennsylvania,)

etc., etc., etc.

AND

MILITARY HISTORY

OF

PHILIP KEARNY,

MAJOR-GENERAL UNITED STATES VOLUNTEERS.

"Dulce et decorum est pro patriâ mori.”

KEARNY BADGE MOTTO.

"THE BRAVEST MAN I EVER KNEW AND THE MOST PERFECT SOLDIER."

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT.

"EIN MANN VOLL STILLER GRÖSSE."

Schmalz's Denkwürdigkeiten des Grafen Wilhelms
zu Schaumburg-Lippe.

SECOND EDITION.

BY JOHN WATTS DE PEYSTER.

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ELIZABETH, N. J.:
PALMER & CO.

NEW YORK:

JAMES MILLER, 647 BROADWAY.

1870.

Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, by

RICE & GAGE,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

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