From Famous Americans.net.
GILBERT, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS, soldier, born in Zanesville, Ohio, 25 August 1825; died in St. Paul, Minnesota, 9 June 1868. He was educated at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and then entered the U.S. Coast Survey. He remained there until the coming of the Civil War and attained the rank next to that of superintendent.
On 11 June 1861, he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 24th Ohio Volunteers, and accompanied his regiment to western Virginia. He was appointed colonel of the 44th Ohio Volinteers on 14 October 1861, and in May, 1862, he took part in a raid upon the Central Railroad, in which his command marched more than eighty miles in sixty hours, including all stops.
He then commanded the right flank in the Battle of Lewisburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), on 21 May 1862, and captured a Confederate battery.
--Old Secesh
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