Roy Stone (16 October 1836 – 5 August 1905) was a US Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War and the Spanish-American War.
Biography[]
Roy Stone was born in Plattsburgh, New York in 1836, and he joined the US Army at the start of the American Civil War, rising to the rank of Colonel of the 149th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment in 1863. He commanded a division of I Corps at the Battle of Chancellorsville and at the Battle of Gettysburg, where he was lauded for his stubborn defense of McPherson's Ridge. In 1864, he served as a brigade commander in James S. Wadsworth's division during the Overland Campaign, being removed from command at the Battle of the Wilderness after he was wrongly accused of drunkenness. He resigned on 27 January 1865, and he went on to serve as head of the Division of Public Roads from 3 October 1893 to 13 October 1899. He also served as a Brigadier-General during the Puerto Rico campaign of the Spanish-American War, and he died in 1905.