Memorandum
Appointment of John J. D. Kingsbury1Jump to section
To-day, Mrs. Col. Kingsbury, whose husband fell at Antietam, calls and asks that John J. D. Kingsbury, cousin, and adopted son, of the Col. be appointed to West Point, for which the Col. intended him. He now resides in New-York, but is native of Conn. Will be 18. years of age next June.
Annotation
[1] AD, DNA WR RG 94, U.S. Military Academy, 1863, No. 101, Box 81. With the memorandum is a letter from Governor William A. Buckingham recommending the appointment. The only Colonel Kingsbury listed as killed at