WHITELEY, Robert Henry Kirkwood, soldier, born near Cambridge, Maryland, 15 April, 1809. He was appointed from Delaware to the United States military academy, where he was graduated in 1830, and, being assigned to the 2d artillery, served in various arsenals and garrisons, including that of Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, in 1832-'3, during the threatened nullification troubles. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, 28 December, 1855, brevetted captain, 19 July, 1836, for gallant conduct in the Florida war, and in 1838 was transferred to the ordnance. He was promoted captain in 1842, and commanded successively the arsenal at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that in St. Louis, Missouri, the New York ordnance depot, and the arsenal at San Antonio, Texas, till the last-named was seized by the state on its secession in 1861. During the civil war he was in charge of the New York arsenal till 1862, and then of Alleghany arsenal, Pennsylvania, which latter post he held till his retirement from active service on 14 April, 1875. He became major, 3 August, 1861, lieutenant-colonel, 1 June, 1863, and colonel, 6 April, 1866, and on 13 March, 1865, was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general.