John Watts de Peyster
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John Watts de Peyster (1821-1907) was a Brigadier General in the New York State Militia during the American Civil War and philanthropoist and military historian after the war.
He was made brevetted to Major General in 1866.
He wrote extensive military histories about the Battle of Saratoga and in 1887 donated a memorial called the Boot Monument which commemorates Benedict Arnold's heroic wounding at the battle (although Arnold is not mentioned by name and the memorial only depicts his boot).
