Ira W. Claflin

Ira Wallace Claflin was a United States Army West Point regular officer who took command of the 6th US Cavalry during the critical days of July 1863 during the Gettysburg Campaign. He was an instructor of Union cavalry tactics for West Virginia and later taught at West Point.

Ira Wallace Claflin was the eldest son, of eight children, of Ira Claflin, Sr 18081891 and Hannah Wells Richardson born in Rochester, Windsor County, Vermont. Ira W. married Jane Cooper Stuck on April 21, 1863 at Hagerstown, Maryland. They had two children, Mary Cooper Claflin and a son, Morris Fairfax Claflin . Claflins father, Ira W. Claflin, Sr. helped raised his two children and assisted his widow. They were noted as in Iowa in the 1870 United States Census.

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