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General Horace Binney Sargent (June 26, 1821 – 1908) was American soldier and politician. Binney Sargent was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the son of Lucius Manlius Sargent and Mary Sarah Binney sister of Horace Binney. He graduated from Harvard College in 1843, with the highest honors L. L. B., 1845, of the Boston Bar. He entered the military soon after he left college, he was appointed with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on the staff of Governor N. P. Banks. He was part of Army of the Potomac, in the engagements at Secessionville, Culpeper Court House, and Rapidan Station, and in the battles of Antietam, South Mountain, and Chancellorsville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Remembering Their Comrades at Aldie )〕 In the spring of 1864, he was seriously wounded and this ended his career.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Civil War )〕 He served as Commandant of the MA Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1876–78,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Full text of "Roll of the Fifty-fourth national encampment, Grand army of the republic; also list of committees" )〕 He was the first President of the Soldiers Home in Chelsmford, a position which he filled until 1884, remaining on its Board as a Trustee until his death.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Full text of "What one Grand Army post has accomplished; history of Edward W. Kinsley Post, no. 113, Department of Massachusetts, Grand Army of the Republic, Boston, Mass" )〕 He ran for Governor of MA as the Greenback candidate 1880. This was the end of his political career, he retired to California and lived with his daughter Elizabeth wife of Bowman H. McCalla ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Horace Binney Sargent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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