George Henry Weeks

George H. Weeks (3 February 1834 – 13 September 1905) was a career officer in the United States Army. An 1857 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he served in the American Indian Wars and American Civil War and attained the rank of brigadier general as Quartermaster General of the United States Army.

Weeks was born in Gilford, New Hampshire and raised and educated in Orono, Maine. He was appointed to West Point in 1853, graduated in 1857, and was commissioned in the Field Artillery. He served at Fort Ridgely, Minnesota from 1859 to 1861, including participation in an expedition against the Sioux along the Yellow Medicine River in 1860. During the American Civil War, Weeks served in the Union Army and transferred to the Quartermaster Corps. He performed chief quartermaster and depot commander duties in Virginia, Maryland, and New York during the war and received brevet promotions to major and lieutenant colonel to recognize the superior service he rendered during the war.

After the war, Weeks carried out chief quartermaster and depot command duties in the western United States, including postings to Washington, California, Alaska, and Arizona. In 1877, he participated in the Nez Perce War while serving as chief quartermaster at Vancouver Barracks, Washington. Later assignments included command of the quartermaster depot in New York City and chief quartermaster of the Department of Texas. In 1895, he was appointed as the army's assistant quartermaster general. In February 1897, he was selected to serve as the quartermaster general with the rank of brigadier general, and he held this position until retiring in February 1898. He lived in Washington, D.C. during his retirement, and he died in Washington on 13 September 1905. Weeks was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.