Eugene Asa Carr

Eugene Asa Carr was a soldier in the United States Army and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Carr was born in Hamburg, New York. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1850, 19th in a class of 44 cadets. He was appointed a brevet second lieutenant in the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, and served in the Indian Wars until 1861, seeing his first bit of combat on October 3, 1854 against Apaches near the Sierra Diablo Mountains. By 1861 he had been promoted to captain in the old 1st U.S. Cavalry and command of Fort Washita in the Indian Territory.

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