The Maine bugle ... campaign; 1-5 Jan. 1894-Oct. 1898 - Maine.gov

282 THE MAINE BUGLE.
manded by Gen. D. McM. Gregg. He continued to serve in
this position, and subsequently as commissary of muster on the
division staff, until after the termination of the war, through alj
the arduous campaigning and bloody fighting which that command
experienced as part of the cavalry corps. It is impossi-
ble, however, to rehearse in this brief compass the many gallant
deeds which won him the universal admiration of his comrades
in arms, who looked on him as the very type of what an officer
of horse should be, not only as the beau sabreur, but the ideal
officer as well, as wise in judgment, as skilled in preparation, as
in the charge he was impetuous and irresistible. He was pro-
moted major December, 1 864, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel
for gallant services March 13th, 1865,
'^'^^ was honorably
mustered out with his regiment at Richmond, August 7th, 1865,
having been transferred to the Fifth Pennsylvania Cavalry.
A few years later he found a field of usefulnesss in New York,
and in the twenty years of his life there won a host of friends.
He was appointed auditor of the collector's office in the
United States Custom House, port of New York. He per-
formed the duties of that office with rare skill and fidelity until
the failure of his health compelled him to seek the milder cli-
mate of southern California.
When the act authorizing the establishment on the Pacific
slope of a branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer
Soldiers was passed by Congress, Colonel Treichel was designated
for its first governor, and assumed command of the home
at Santa Monica, January 29th, 1888, which he organized and of
which he superintended the building. It was there he ended
his days, March 28th, 1894, far from the comrades and friends
of his youth and of his middle age.
He has left behind him a beautiful memory and example of
the life of a Christian soldier. Unswerving in the performance
of duty, his heart was softer than a girl's to every touch of
affection or compassion. A typical cavah-yman, dashing,
reckless of danger and bold as a lion ; with
all the energy,
frankness and directness which belong to the character of a