Bogardus bm.   "Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. Born in Georgia, his family moved to New Jersey when he was only months old. He served during the Mexican War as a Private in the 10th United States Infantry, which had been recruited in New Jersey but saw no action in the field. Upon his return he was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he attended for three years but did not graduate. He re-entered the United States Army in 1854, be mustered in as a Private in Battery A, 1st United States Artillery. In 1857 he was transferred to the 3rd United States Artillery and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant. He served on the Western Frontier before the Civil War, participating in a number of actions with the Plains Indians. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant just prior to the war, after it began he was advanced to Captain and assigned as an Assistant Quartermaster in the United States Army Quartermaster Department. On August 29, 1862 he was commissioned as a Colonel of Volunteers, and assigned to command the 100th New York Volunteer Infantry regiment, replacing Colonel James Malcolm Brown, who had been killed in action at the May 31, 1862 Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia. He would go on to command his men in operations in North Carolina and South Carolina, where in July 1863 he led his men in one of the brave yet futile assaults on Battery Wagner on Morris Island, outside of Charleston (made famous by the participation of the all-African American 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry). His regiment would eventually be assigned to operations around Richmond, Virginia, and take part in Battles such as Drewry's Bluff, Deep Bottom, Strawberry Plains, and Fort Harrison. In the final assaults on Petersburg, Virginia in April 1865 he commanded his brigade in the successful attack on Fort Gregg, and was present at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, when the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and Union forces. On March 13, 1865 he was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers for "gallant and meritorious services in the field during the war" and Brigadier General, US Regular Army for "gallant and meritorious services at Fort Gregg, Virginia". Mustered out of the Volunteer service in August 1865, he resumed his duties in the Regular Army Quartermaster Department. He retired from the Army in 1894 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.