Risultati di ricerca
William Wallace Smith Bliss (August 17, 1815 – August 5, 1853) was a United States Army officer and mathematics professor. A gifted mathematician, he taught at West Point and also served as a line officer.
LTC William Wallace Smith Bliss. LTC Bliss contracted yellow fever in New Orleans, died at the age of 37 in Mississippi and originally buried in New Orleans, LA. Born in Whitehall, New York, he was the son of Captain John Bliss (of Lebanon, New Hampshire) and Olive Hall Simons.
Fort Bliss was named for Col. William Wallace Smith Bliss in January 1854, and when the National Cemetery was dedicated March 17, 1940, it also carried his name. Bliss, who died of yellow...
5 ago 2023 · The body of the man for whom Ft. Bliss was named, Col. William Wallace Smith Bliss, will arrive in El Paso in about 10 days, according to Maj. L. B. Anderson, Ft. Bliss Public Information...
- Trish Long
- Reporter/Data Expert
3 giu 2024 · The fort's name was officially changed to Fort Bliss on March 8, 1954, in memory of Lieutenant Colonel William Wallace Smith Bliss, a Mexican War veteran and son-in-law of Zachary Taylor, General and President. By the late 1850s, 11 posts existed along the Rio Grande, from San Elizario to Santa Fe.
Zachary Taylor posed for this portrait with William W.S. Bliss (1815–1853), who served as the general’s chief of staff during the Mexican-American War. A West Point graduate and a trusted aide, Bliss married Taylor’s youngest daughter, Betty, in 1848, and later served as the president’s private secretary.
3 ott 2019 · On March 8, 1854, the official name of the post became Fort Bliss, in memory of Lt. Col. William Wallace Smith Bliss, Gen. Zachary Taylor's chief of staff during the Mexican War and later his son-in-law.
