| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of brigadier general, but Ochiltree never attained this rank.) Enlisted in Hood's Texas Brigade and rose to the rank of major. Served on the staffs of Henry Hopkins Sibley, Thomas Green, Richard Taylor, Samuel Bell Maxey, and James Longstreet in the armies of North Virginia, New Mexico, Louisiana, Indian Territory, and Arkansas. He was breveted a colonel four days before Lee's surrender. After the war, Ochiltree returned to Texas and served one term in Congress (1883-1885). Following his retirement from Congress, he moved to New York. He died in Hot Springs, Virginia on November 25, 1902, and is buried in New York. Source: The Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/OO/foc1.html
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