Berkeley County, West Virginia Biography of George Dallas LAMBERT This file was submitted by Vivian Brinker, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume II, pg. 185 GEORGE DALLAS LAMBERT came to Martinsburg, Berkeley County, shortly after the close of the Civil war, in which he had given specially gallant and faithful service as a soldier of the Union for over three years, and in this city he passed the remainder of his life, a substantial business man and a citizen whose sterling character gave him inviolable place in the confidence and good will of his fellow men. Mr. Lambert was born on the old family homestead at the end of Patrick Street in Frederick City, Maryland, and was a son of Frederick and Catherine Lambert, of whom more specific mention is made on other pages of this work, in the personal sketch of his brother Walter. In the schools of his native city Mr. Lambert acquired his early education, and when the Civil war was precipitated on the nation he forthwith manifested his loyalty and patriotism by enlisting in a Maryland regiment of volunteer infantry that entered the Union service. He was with his command at in many important battles and innumerable minor engagements marking the progress of the great conflict, he and his brother William having been captured and having started on their way to a Confederate prison further in the South, but he managed to escape, passed through the Confederate lines at Harper's Ferry and rejoined his command. His brother William, was not so fortunate, and died in Libby Prison. For several years after the close of the war Mr. Lambert was engaged in the feed and provision business at Martinsburg, a portion of the time in partnership with his brother Charles and later with Andrew Grazier. He here continued his residence until his death, which occurred when he was well advanced in years. His political allegiance was given to the republican party, and he was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republic. His first wife, whose maiden name was Margaret Grazier, and who was a daughter of Andrew Grazier, died at the age of thirty years. For his second wife Mr. Lambert wedded Miss Mary Kathleen Whitmore, a daughter of the late Samuel Whitmore, to whom a memoir is dedicated on other pages of this volume. Mrs. Lambert still maintains her home at Martinsburg, where her circle of friends is coincident with that of her acquaintances. She has no children.