5, 1863 and went on to serve in the Bristoe and Mine Run Campaigns before being wounded and captured in June 1864 during the Overland Campaign. Held at Libby Prison in Richmond, Mansfield was later returned to the north as part of a prisoner exchange. Towards the end of the Civil War, Mansfield became colonel of the Veteran Reserve Corps, a reserve organization also known as the U.S. Invalid Corps, made up of men unfit for combat but able to assist in hospital work or other light duties. Mansfield was later brevetted as a brigadier general of volunteers, a rank to date from March 13, 1865. Lieutenant Governor Following the war, Mansfield settled in California and later served as a delegate to the second California constitutional convention in 1878 and 1879 and as an at-large delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention. He was elected as California's lieutenant governor in 1879 and served one term under Republican Governor George C. Perkins from 1880 to 1883. Mansfield died at his home in Los Angeles in 1896 and was cremated. His ashes were interred in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery without record of their location. Mansfield may be the namesake of Mansfield, Illinois, although other sources suggest the village was named after other unrelated men named Mansfield, or potentially the city of Mansfield, Ohio. References Further reading External links |- |- Lieutenant Governors of California Union Army colonels American Civil War prisoners of war 1822 births 1896 deaths California Republicans Iron Brigade People of Wisconsin in the American Civil War Politicians from Los Angeles Burials at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery 19th-century American politicians Military personnel from California