George Byron Currey
Union Army officer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Byron Currey (April 4, 1833 – March 6, 1906) was a pioneer, lawyer, soldier, farmer, and editor in the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Indiana, he served as an officer in the 1st Oregon Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and then the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment], before being appointed commander of the District of the Columbia at the end of the American Civil War as well as in the Snake War in 1865.