Augustus Henry Seward (1 October 1826-11 September 1876) was a US Army brevet colonel who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.
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Augustus Henry Seward was born in Auburn, New York in 1826, the son of William H. Seward and the brother of Frederick W. Seward, William H. Seward Jr., and Fanny Seward. He graduated from West Point in 1847 and served as a second lieutenant in the US 8th Infantry Regiment during the Mexican-American War, later serving with the US 5th Infantry Regiment in Mississippi, the Indian Territory, in the Utah War, and in the New Mexico Territory. During the American Civil War, he served as a paymaster in New Mexico, Arizona, and Washington DC and was brevetted a colonel in November 1865. On 14 April 1865, he was present at Lewis Powell's attempted assassination of a bedridden William Seward, suffering seven stab wounds while attempting to fight off the assassin. He remained in Washington until 1868, where he hestified at Powell's trial, and he was later posted in Boston, New York City, and in the Dakota Territory. He took a leave of absence from the Army in 1876 and died of ere paralysis in Montrose, New York.