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Joseph Rodman Drake DeKay

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Joseph Rodman Drake DeKay Veteran

Birth
Death
9 Jun 1886 (aged 49)
New York, New York County, New York, USA
Burial
Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Served with credit during the civil war on the staffs of Gens. Mansfield, Pope, and Hooker, and won the brevet of lieutenant colonel for gallantry in several battles.
-Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887
Served with credit during the civil war on the staffs of Gens. Mansfield, Pope, and Hooker, and won the brevet of lieutenant colonel for gallantry in several battles.
-Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887

Inscription

Joseph R. Drake DeKay, eldest son of Com. G.C. de Kay, Capt Bvt. Lieu. Col. U.S. Army N.Y. Aug 14, 1836-N.Y. June 9, 1886



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