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3 unusual facts about Jerome Anthony Watrous


Jerome Anthony Watrous

During the war, he rose to become a sergeant, and briefly attained the rank of adjutant general of the Iron Brigade.

When the American Civil War began, Watrous in 1861 enlisted in Company E of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

He served for a while as paymaster of the Department of Columbia headquartered in Portland, Oregon before being sent to Manila in the Philippines in 1900.



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