Biography

Colonel Suydam was a social acquaintance of the Seward family during the Civil War period, and served in the US Army during that time. He married Eliza Gracie Suydam (nee Halsey). He led several engagements in Virginia in the latter part of the war. Col. Suydam and his wife are mentioned in Fanny Adeline Seward's diary of 1862-1863 as some of the people she met at a luncheon.