BIO: George Gibson, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                            CHAPTER XXXVIII.

                          BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

374  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

  GEORGE GIBSON, third son of Chief Justice Gibson, of Pennsylvania, 
and grandson of Col. George Gibson, of Revolutionary fame, who was 
killed at St. Clair's defeat, was born at Carlisle, Penn., April 4, 
1826, and received his education at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penn.  
April, 1853, saw him appointed a military storekeeper in the 
Quartermaster Department of the Army, which position he retained until 
May, 1867, rendering service in the Quartermaster General's office at 
Washington, also at Albuquerque, New Mexico, Schuylkill Arsenal, 
Philadelphia, when he was appointed a captain in the Eleventh Regular 
Infantry, and assigned temporarily to duty in Washington as approving 
officer of requisitions made upon the clothing, camp and garrison 
equipage by the troops congregated about that city.  June, 1863, saw 
him serving with his regiment in the field (Army of the Potomac), being 
shortly afterward assigned to duty with Gen. Sykes as commissary

375   BOROUGH OF CARLISLE.

of musters and inspector-general of the Fifth Corps.  He also served as 
acting assistant inspector-general of the provisional brigade at Gen. 
Meade's headquarters, rejoining his regiment at Richmond at the 
conclusion of the war, upon its being assigned to the duty of 
garrisoning that city.  Here he was placed in charge of all matters 
pertaining to the colored people of that city and the adjoining county 
of Henrico, and shortly afterward was made acting assistant inspector-
general of the Department of Virginia, under Gen. Terry, and of the 
First Military District of Richmond, Va., under Gen. Schofield.  While 
serving in the later capacity he was temporarily placed in command of 
the sub-district of Ft. Monroe, comprising that post, as well as 
Norfolk, Camp Hamilton and Yorktown.  January, 1868, he was promoted 
major of the First Infantry, and placed on duty, by orders of the 
Secretary of War, in the War Department, as recorder of a board of 
claims.  June, 1869, saw him assigned to the Fifth Infantry and command 
of Ft. Hays, Kas., being shortly afterward placed on duty at Ft. 
Leavenworth, under Gen. Pope, as acting assistant inspector-general, 
Department of the Missouri.  From this place he was transferred, by 
orders of the War Department, to Memphis, Tenn., as a disbursing 
officer, under direction of the adjutant-general of the army, where he 
continued until July, 1876, when he was placed in command of the 
cantonment on Tongue River, M. T. (afterward known as Ft. Keogh), where 
he remained up until the time of his promotion as lieutenant-colonel of 
the Third Infantry (March 20, 1879), when he was assigned to the 
command of Ft. Missoula, M. T.  Here he remained until his final 
promotion to the colonelcy of his old regiment, of the Fifth Infantry, 
at Ft. Keogh, August 1, 1886, at which place he is now serving.