STRONG, George Crockett, soldier, born in Stockbridge, Vermont, 16 October, 1832; died in New York city, 30 July, 1863. Losing his father early in life, he was adopted by his uncle, Alfred L. Strong, of Easthampton, Massachusetts tie was graduated at the United States military academy in 1857, assigned to the ordnance, and in 1859 became assistant at Watervliet arsenal, of which he took command in May, 1861. He was ordnance officer on General Irvin Me-Dowell's staff at Bull Run, and was then attached successively to the staffs of General George B. McClellan and Gem Benjamin F. Butler, whose chief of staff he became in May, 1862. He had previously been engaged in the organization of the New Orleans expedition, and on 1 October, 1861, had been commissioned major and assistant adjutant-general. He commanded the expedition from Ship island to Biloxi, Mississippi, in April, 1862, and that to Ponchatoula in September, when he destroyed a large train and inflicted much damage on the enemy. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers, 29 November, 1862, was on sick-leave in New York from the following December till June, 1863, and then commanded a brigade in the operations against Charleston, South Carolina He had been commissioned captain of ordnance, 3 March, 1863. He led the successful attack on Morris island, where he was the first to land. At the assault on Fort Wagner on 18 July, while he was leading and cheering on the storming column, he was mortally wounded. He was at once removed to New York city. General Strong was the author of "Cadet Life at West Point" (Boston, 1862).