William Sully Beebe

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|birth_place =Ithaca, New York

|death_place =Havana, Cuba

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William Sullivan "Sully" Beebe (February 14, 1841 – October 12, 1898) was a Union officer who received the Medal of Honor on June 30, 1897 for his action at Cane River Crossing, Louisiana on April 23, 1864.{{cite web|title=Medal of Honor recipients, Civil War (A-L)|publisher=United States Army Center of Military History|url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civwaral.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20071214025428/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/civwaral.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 14, 2007|accessdate=2009-04-04}} Born in Ithaca, New York, Beebe graduated from West Point in 1863, receiving his commission in the ordnance branch. He served in the Army until resigning in January 1874.{{cite book |chapter-url=http://digital-library.usma.edu/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/12393/rec/21 |chapter=William S. Beebe |title=Thirtieth Annual Reunion of the Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, June 7th, 1899 |date=1899 |pages=98–103 |publisher=Seemann & Peters, Printers and Binders |location=Saginaw, Michigan |access-date=2022-10-15}}{{cite web |url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/2009*.html |title=William S. Beebe |publisher=University of Chicago |access-date=2022-10-15}}

Beebe rejoined the Army at the start of the Spanish–American War in June 1898, and served as chief ordnance officer, with the rank of major, on the staff of general James F. Wade. He contracted yellow fever while in Cuba and died later that year.{{Cite web |url=http://www.goordnance.army.mil/hof/hall_of_fame_inductees_year.html |title=Ordnance Hall of Fame |access-date=2013-11-21 |archive-date=2016-03-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322182319/http://www.goordnance.army.mil/hof/hall_of_fame_inductees_year.html |url-status=dead }}[http://drs.library.yale.edu:8083/HLTransformer/HLTransServlet?stylename=yul.ead2002.xhtml.xsl&pid=mssa:ms.0915&query=maya&clear-stylesheet-cache=yes&hlon=yes&filter=fgs.collection:%22Manuscripts%20and%20Archives%22&hitPageStart=1 Yale University Library]

Beebe was a companion of the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

Beebe was the nephew of John Charles Casey (1809–1856), West Point Class of 1829.{{cite web |url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/551*.html |title=John C. Casey |publisher=University of Chicago |access-date=2022-10-15}}