Born: Woodstock, August 2, 1783

Died: Washington, D.C., December 7, 1862

Buried: ?

Pre-war: carpenter, editor of Windsor's "The Vermont Republican," appointed 1st Lieutenant, Artillery, 3/1812; captain, 8/1813; Ass't Adjt. Gen. (Major) 8/29/1813; Major, 3rd Artillery 4/6/1835; Inspector General (Colonel), 6/25/41; Florida Indian War, 1836-41, Mexican War, 1846-48; bvt Bvt. Brig. Gen'l 2/23/47; retired 9/25/61.

Sources:

Boatner, Mark Mayo, The Civil War Dictionary, (David McKay Co., New York, 1959)
Churchill, Franklin Hunter, Sketch of the Life of Bvt. Gen. Brig. Gen. Sylvester Churchill, Inspector General U.S. Army, (McDonald, New York, 1888)(USAMI bibliography)
Johnson, Rossiter, ed., The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, (The Biograhpical Society, Boston, 1904)
Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, editors. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, (D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1888)