George Augustus Armes


Major George Augustus Armes was a United States Army officer on the staff of Winfield Scott Hancock who participated in the Battle of the Saline River. He was court-martialed three times.

Biography

He was born in Fairfax, Virginia on May 29, 1844 to Josiah Orcutt Armes and Caroline Olive Older.
He fought in the American Civil War on the side of the Union Army. He participated in the Battle of the Saline River on August 2, 1867. He married Lucy Hamilton Kerr on October 14, 1874.
In 1900 he wrote Ups & Downs of an Army Officer. In 1902 he was shot by his former tenant. He married Marie Atkinson on December 24, 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He died on December 18, 1919 in Ventnor City, New Jersey.