Marcus F. Wright's Civil War Bios -  Major-General Edward Ferrero

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                                  FERRERO
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   FERRERO, MAJOR-GENERAL EDWARD was a Spaniard by birth, but was a
   resident of New York at the beginning of the war, and a field officer
   in the Eleventh Regiment of the State militia. In the summer of 1861
   he organized and was made colonel of the Fifty-first New York
   Volunteers, which styled themselves the "Shepard Rifles". This
   regiment fought with distinction on the coast of North Carolina, and
   its colonel was rewarded with the command of a brigade. He
   distinguished himself at the second battle of Manassas, and was of
   special service in protecting the Federal retreat on the succeeding
   day at Chantilly. He had a brigade command again at the battle of
   South Mountain; and his services on the field at Antietam won for him
   the full rank of brigadier-general.
   He was also at Fredericksburg, where his brigade lost two-fifths of
   its whole number. Transferred to the west, Ferraro's brigade was
   joined to the Ninth Corps, and participated in the siege of Vicksburg;
   and afterward pursued and defeated Johnston at Jackson, Miss. Detached
   again, General Ferraro and his men were shut up in Knoxville, Tenn.,
   with Burnside, in 1863, and to him was committed the defense of Fort
   Saunders when Longstreet's legions unsuccessfully assulted it with
   such desperate valor. This was perhaps the most brilliant of his
   achievements. Later he returned to the east and was given command of a
   division of colored troops. He was made a brefet major-general and
   left the army when it was disbanded in 1865.