John Titcomb Sprague was a career officer in the United States Army. A three-year veteran of the United States Marine Corps (1834–1837), he served in the US Army from 1837 to 1861 and 1865 to 1870, and the Union Army during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865. During the Civil War, he served concurrently as Adjutant General of New York and led the state militia during its wartime mobilization. Sprague attained the rank of colonel in the US Army, the brevet rank of brigadier general in the Union Army, and held the rank of brigadier general in the New York Militia.
- Occupation
- military officer, non-fiction writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 3, 1810
- Died
