Indian Wars Lawrence Sprague Babbitt (February 18, 1839 – October 15, 1903) was a United States Army colonel.
He was the son of Brevet Brigadier General Edwin Burr Babbitt, U.S. Army, and Sarah Stedman Sprague; the grandson of Surgeon Lawrence Sprague, U.S. Army, and Sarah Titcomb; and the great-grandson of Jonathan Titcomb, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, who was a member of the Provincial Congress of 1774.
He served during the American Civil War in the Manassas campaign and the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861.
He was brevetted major on February 27, 1890, for gallant services in action against Indians at the Clearwater, Idaho, on July 11–12, 1877.
[1] Babbitt was in command of the U.S. Powder Depot in Dover, New Jersey, until February 18, 1903, when he was retired from active service.