COL George E. Ryan

vil War Union Army Officer. A 1857 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, he served as a 1st Lieutenant in the 7th United States Regular Infantry in the early days of the war. Promoted to Captain in July 1862, he served as acting Adjutant General on the staff of Major General George Sykes from December 1862 to June 1863, and as acting Adjutant General and Chief of Staff to Brigadier General Romeyn B. Ayers from June 1863 to July 1863 (both officers had commanded the V Corps division that contained the brigades of Regular Army infanty regiments). On July 17, 1863 he was commissioned Colonel, US Volunteers, and was mustered in as commander of the 140th New York Volunteer Infantry, which had lost it's leader, Colonel Patrick O'Rorke, during it's celebrated defense of Little Round Top on the second day of the July 1863 Battle of Gettysburg. Colonel Ry