Quartermaster Moses Summers was mustered
into service at Albany, NY on August 28, 1862, under a commission as
Quartermaster dated April 18, 1862, rank August 28, 1862 and was detached for
duty as A. A. Q. M. on the staff of Colonel Ireland, command the 3rd Brigade
at Stevenson, Alabama, April 22, 1864. He was subsequently discharged
July 1, 1864 to accept a commission as Captain and A. A. Q. M. of US
Volunteers in the same staff.
Captain Summers, from the time of his
appointment on the staff of Colonel Ireland, continued to serve at Brigade
H.Q. until the close of the war.
He was an intelligent and efficient
officer, and performed the duties assigned to him in a creditable manner.
At Savannah he took charge of the
printing-office and issued several editions of a paper known as the
"Loyal Georgian" and was the author of the articles appearing from
time to time in the Syracuse Daily Standard entitled "The Sword and
Pen".
As an officer and a man he occupied a high
position and was generally respected by those associated with him. After
the war he was elected one or two terms to the Assembly of the State of New
York and was the recipient of political preferment on several occasions, but
never received the full recognition due him for his merits and great services
rendered in behalf of the country, owing to partisan jealousies engendered
against him as on the the leaders of the party in the county of Onondaga.
As an officer he was meritorious and
efficient, as a citizen and as a friend he was faithful and loyal, and his
untimely death caused by an accident while serving the State as Warden of the
Port of New York in the full vigor of his manhood, was universally regretted.
At the close of the war he received the
brevetted rank of Major.
Obituary
of Moses Summers
