Joseph Eldridge Hamblin

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Joseph Eldridge Hamblin (1828-70) was an American soldier of the Civil War, born at Yarmouth, Mass. Long a member of the Seventh Regiment of the New York militia, he enlisted in 1861 as adjutant in Duryea's Zouaves and served in Virginia under Butler, McClellan, Meade, and Grant, and Sheridan in the Sixty-fifth New York. He especially distinguished himself at Cedar Creek, where he was wounded. He was brevetted brigadier general and in 1865 promoted to full rank, with the brevet of major general, for gallantry at Sailor's Creek. After the war he was prominent in the New York National Guard.

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