Joseph Bradford Carr

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Joseph Bradford Carr (1828 – 1895) was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Carr was born in Albany, N.Y. He was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 2nd New York Infantry in April, 1861, and took part in the engagement at Big Bethel. He served under McClellan throughout the Peninsula Campaign and was promoted to brigadier general on September 7, 1862, for gallantry at Malvern Hill. General Carr participated in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville (commanding a division during a part of the latter).

He was distinguished for gallantry at Gettysburg, where his men stubbornly held their ground near the Peach Orchard. In 1865, Carr was brevetted as a major general of volunteers.

After the close of the war, he became a manufacturer in Troy, New York, a Republican politician in New York State, and served as New York's Secretary of State (1879 – 1885).