Robert Byington Mitchell-- Part 2: Perryville, Chicakamauga and New Mexico

After his recovery, Lincoln appointed him a brigadier general an d he was given command of a mixed brigade at Fort Riley (Kansas).    Later, he commanded a division at the Battle of Perryville and then he was stationed at Nashville for awhile after that.

During the Chickamauga Campaign, he served as George H. Thomas' chief of cavalry for the Army of the Cumberland.  Just before the Third Battle of Chattanooga, he was ordered to Washington, D.C., for court martial duty.  There is some question as to whether this was because of incapacitation due to a wound.

Either way, he did not see active duty again against the Confederates, and commanded the District of Nebraska, District of North Kansas and finally the District of Kansas.

In January 1865, he commanded a unit chasing after a group of Indians who had attacked Julesburg, Colorado but was unable to catch them.

He was honorably discharged  on January 15, 1866, the same day the Senate confirmed his nomination as Governor of the New Mexico Territory.  He resigned from it in 1869 and returned to Kansas before moving to Washington, D.C., where he died January 26, 1882, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

--Old Secesh