Brig. Gen. Andrew Sheridan Burt, (USA)

• enlisted as a Private, Company A, 6th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, April 20, 1861 and was discharged July 15, 1861. He was then appointed from Ohio, as First Lieutenant, 18th US Infantry, May 14, 1861

Civil War

Andrew Sheridan Burt of Ohio

1. Appointed From Ohio, Private and Sergeant, Company A, 6th Ohio Infantry, 20 April to 15 July 1861
2. First Lieutenant, 18th U. S. Infantry, 14 May 1861
3. Captain, Aide-de-Camp, 3 April 1862 to 30 May 1863
4. Captain, 18th Infantry, 30 May 1863

his wife Elizabeth née Reynolds

b. 1839, Cincinnati, Ohio. When the Civil War broke out, Lizzie Reynolds engaged in the war effort. Her brother, a cousin, and her suitor, Andrew Sheridan Burt, enlisted in the Army, and Lizzie volunteered with the Sanitary Commission doing work she had not done before: knitting socks and mittens, tending the wounded in Army hospitals, and preparing bandages. When Andrew's regiment was ordered out of Cincinnati, he suggested they marry right away. They were married in 1862 in Cincinnati which was governed by martial law. After the War, the Burts were stationed at many posts in the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Pacific coast, and the Philippines while Andrew rose in the ranks to General. Elizabeth always took her wedding silver, packed in a wooden box, with her to every post. The Burts raised two sons and a daughter and remained in the Army until 1902. She wrote about her experiences for her family in a memoir titled "An Army Wife's Forty Years in the Service 1862–1902" (available on microfilm from the Library of Congress.) Elizabeth Burt died in 1926.