Lancaster County PA Archives Obituaries.....Heintzelman, Samuel P 1880
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Lancaster daily intelligencer. (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928: May 03, 1880
Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman, United States army, retired, who died in
Washington on Saturday, was born at Manheim, Lancaster county, September 30, 1805,
and graduated from West Point, July 1, 1826. July 7, 1838, he was appointed captain
and assistant quartermaster. He served through the Mexican war, and at the battle of
Huamaulta he distinguished himself and was breveted a
major on the field. In 1855 he was made a major and assigned to the 1st infantry. At
the breaking out of the rebellion he was ordered to Washington, and acted as
inspector general of the troops there. At the first battle of Bull Run, where he was
wounded, he commanded the 3d dvision. During the campaign of 1861, and '62 he
commanded a division of the army of the Potomac, and in March, 1862, took command of
the Second army corps. In the Chickahominy campaign he did effective service and was
made a major general of volunteers. At the second battle of Bull Run his corps had
the post of honor, and held its ground through the fight. During McClellan's
Maryland campaign Gen. Heintzelman commanded the defenses at Washington. He was
breveted major general in the regular army for gallant conduct at the battle of
Williamsburg, and at the close of the war became colonel of the 17th infantry. In
1869 he was retired with the rank of major general and has since resided in
Washington. The general of the army, in a general order, says : "Gen. Heintzelman
was a man of an intense nature, of vehement action guided by sound judgment and a
cultivated taste. Universally respected and beloved, at a ripe old age he leaves us,
universally regretted. Well done, thou good and faithful servant. May our end be as
peaceful and as much deplored as his." The funeral will take place with military
honors and the remains will be taken to Buffalo for interment.

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