Edwin Bradford Bolton
Kentucky Post, Thursday, 3 January 1907, page 5
NEW-Officers at Ft Thomas today confirmed the report that Col. Edwin B Bolton would be the new Colonel of the Fourth Infantry. The appointment has been made but as Bolton is in the wilds of Alaska, he will not know of his promotion until the last of February. Col. Bolton has been in the Tenth Infantry and is not at Ft Gibbons. He is from Mississippi and was admitted to West Point in 1871. He was second Lieutenant in the Twenty-third Infantry in 1875 and was promoted to First Lt. in 1884. He was a Captain in 1891 and was transferred to the Sixteenth in 1900. He was Lt. Colonel of the Sixteenth in 1903.
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Col. Edwin Bradford Bolton was a graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1875. A summary career biography of him is given in entry #2588 in Cullum's Biographical Register of the Graduates of the Military Academy; it is online, as is his obituary in the Report of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy for 1939.