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Creedmoor
and the
International Matches
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H.A. Gildersleeve (1840-?)
1874: Member of
the USA team at Creedmoor
1875: Captain and member of the USA team at Dollymount
1876: Member of the USA team at Creedmoor
New York Mercury,
27 September 1874
"Mr. Gildersleeve is a lawyer, and lieutenant colonel of the 12th
Regiment. He is 33 years old, is of medium height, heavily built, and
although a yound riflemen, is a first-class one." He enlisted during
the late war in the 150th New York Regiment, was at Gettysburg, became
provost-marshal of the 20th Army Corps, and subsequently marched with
Sherman to the sea."
Harper's Weekly,
10 July 1875
"The captain of the team [to Dollymount, Ireland, 1875] is Colonel
Henry A Gildersleeve. He was born in Dutchess County, New York, August
1, 1840, his father being a farmer near Poughkeepsie. In 1862, when
he was but twenty-two years of age, he recruited a company of one hundred
men, and joined the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment of New York Volunteers,
with the rank of captain. His command lay at Baltimore until the following
year, when they joined the Army of the Potomac, under Meade, and fought
in the battle of Gettysburg. From that time Captain Gildersleeve was
mainly employed in different administrative positions, being provost
marshall of various important posts, rejoining his regiment as a part
of the Twentieth Army Corps at Kenesaw Mountain, and remaining with
Sheridan during his "march to the sea". During his army experience
Gildersleeve had been promoted to the rank of major, and again brevetted
as lieutenant-colonel June 12, 1865. He was mustered from the service
at Poughkeepsie June 12, 1865. He at once came to New York and entered
Columbia College Law School, and was admitted to the bar the following
year. He immediately entered upon a lucrative practice. Colonel Gildersleeve's
shooting experience dates from the establishment of Creedmoor. He is
accounted an excellent marksman, and has won numerous prizes."
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