Anthony/bm.  Civil War Union Brigadier General. He graduated from the US Military Academy in 1841, as an officer in 4th US Artillery and served in the Mexican American War. At the beginning of the Civil War, he served as a Major in the 93rd, 98th, and 102nd Pennsylvania Regiments in Virginia. He was promoted Brigadier General of the 2nd Division VI Corps in June 1862, leading it at the Battle of Fredericksburg and in the Chancellorsville Campaign. In 1863, he participated in the Battle of Gettysburg, the Bristoe Campaign and the Mine Run Campaign. After leaving the 2nd Division, he commanded the artillery depot in Washington D.C. At the close of the war, he served in the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865 and mustered out of the volunteer service in July 1866.  At the close of the war, Howe served in the honor guard that stood watch over the corpse of Abraham Lincoln, and soon afterward was appointed as a member of the military commission that tried the Lincoln conspirators. Howe did not make any public comments on the conviction or hanging of Mary E. Surratt, but was not among the five officers who petitioned President Andrew Johnson to commute her sentence to life in prison.[5] Both assignments may indicate that the Radical Republican faction in the Congress found him useful and sympathetic.[6] He also served in the Freedmen's Bureau in 1865. Howe was mustered out of the volunteer service on July 15, 1866.