ommand of camps of instruction in several districts in Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee until Jan. 14, 1865, when he resigned.

RIDGELY, Henry Moore, senator, was born at Dover, Del., in 1778. half brother of Charles Ridgely, a prominent Delaware physician. After receiving a thorough academic education, he took up the study of law, and obtained admission to the bar. He began the practice of that profession in his native city, where he continued his work for many years, becoming a distinguished member of the bar of Delaware, and gaining considerable popularity. In 1810 he was elected to represent his state in congress on the Federalist ticket, receiving a majority of seventeen over Richard C. Dale, the Democratic candidate. In 1812, however, he received 4,118 votes against 3,211 for his opponent, and being thus re-elected served from Nov. 4,1811, to March 2, 1815. On the latter date he resumed his law practice, which he continued until 1827, when on Jan. 23d he became a member of the U. S. senate, taking the seat made vacant by the death of Nicholas Van Dyke. He served in the senate with honor for twelve years, retiring on March 3, 1829, when he again resumed his private practice. Mr. Ridgely died at his home in Dover. Del., Aug. 7, 1847.

POTTER, Robert B., soldier, was born at Schenectady, N. Y. July 16, 1829, the second son of Bishop Alonzo Potter. He was for a time at Union college, but did not finish the collegiate course. At the opening of the civil war he was practicing law in New York city. When the 51st regiment, N. Y. volunteers, was organized he became its lieutenant-colonel. At Roanoke Island, N. C., he led three companies of his regiment to the assault of the Confederate batteries, and was the first to ener their works. At Newbern, N. C., his regiment stormed the intrenchments on the left of the Confederate lines, and he received a ball in the groin which passed through his body, but he remained on the field until the close of the day, and his judgment in pointing out the line of attack decided the victory in favor of the Federal troops. His regiment was then removed to Virginia to support Gen. McClellan, and afterward Gen. Pope, in what is known as the second Bull Run campaign. It was placed in Reno's brigade, and on the left of the Federal lines. This brigade covered Pope's retreat, and at a critical emergency, when called on to retrieve disaster, Col. Potter led the 51st, in full view of the army, and broke the Confederate lines. At South Mountain he was in the post of honor, and at Antietam he seized an American flag, crossed the bridge, which was the key to the existing position, and in the words of Gen. McClellan at the time, "saved the day." Here also he was wounded, but slightly. Then he was sent with Gen. Burnside, his old commander in North Carolina, and his personal friend, to take part in the western campaign-Potter taking a place on Burnside's staff, and by Gen. Grant's special order receiving an independent command. He commanded the division in front of the Federal lines during the siege of Knoxville, Tenn., and for seven trying days so manoeuvered as to check the advance of Gen. Longstreet, who was endeavoring to send reinforcements to that post. In June, 1864, he was brevetted major-general of volunteers. In the Wilderness campaign (1864) he was constantly under fire and unusually active in his division. In

the final assault upon Petersburg, Va., Apr. 2, 1865, he was severely wounded. After the war he commanded the Rhode Island and Connecticut districts of the military department of the East. A full major-general's commission for her husband reached his wife upon her wedding-day (Sept. 20, 1865), sent under seal of the U. S. war department. Gen. Potter was mustered out of the army in January, 1866, but he was appointed colonel of the 41st U. S. infantry (colored) the same year, although he never assumed its command. Gen. W. S. Hancock said of him, that he was one of the twelve best officers (West Point graduates not excepted) in the army. He acted as receiver for the Atlantic and Southwestern railroad company from 1866 to 1869, and then spent some time in England for his health. Returning to the United States he settled at Newport, R. I., and died there Feb. 19, 1887. A bust in bronze, with appropriate inscriptions commemorating the military career of the general, was provided by his military associates, and has been placed in the state library at Albany, N. Y.

PARROTT, Enoch Greenleaf, naval officer, was born in Portsmouth, N. H., Dec. 10, 1814. He entered the navy in December, 1831, passed the grade of midshipman in June, 1837, and was commissioned lieutenant in September, 1841. He served under Com. Perry in the engagements on the west coast of Africa in 1843; and from 1846 until 1848, while an officer of the frigate Congress, accompanied Frémont's expedition from Monterey to Los Angeles, and participated in the capture of Guaymas and Mazatlan. He was promoted to be commander in April, 1861, aided in the destruction of the Norfolk navy yard, and with the brig Perry captured the Confederate privateer Savannah, for which he received the thanks of the department. From 1861 until 1863 he commanded the steamer Augusta, served under Dupont at the capture of Port Royal, and in an engagement with Confederate rams in Charleston harbor on Jan. 13, 1863, received the fire of the Confederate batteries. In 1864 he commanded the Canonicus and participated in frequent engagements with Confederate ironclads and batteries in the James river, At the two attacks on Fort Fisher and the surrender of Charleston he commanded the Monadnock. He was made captain in 1866, commodore in 1870, rear-admiral in 1873, and in 1874 was placed on the retired list. He died in New York city May 10, 1879.

TOOMBS, Robert, soldier and statesman, was born in Washington, Ga., July 10, 1810. His collegiate career was passed at the University of Georgia, at Union college in New York, and at the University of Virginia. At the age of twenty the Georgia legislature admitted him to the bar by special

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He became captain of volunteers in an expedition against the Alabama Indians, and in 1838 took his seat in the legislature of his native state, where he remained until 1844. Always successful in a popu lar election, his political rank rose uninterruptedly. The year 1844 saw him elected member of congress; in 1854 he was chosen U. S. senator, in which office he continued until the civil war (1861). In 1860 Breckinridge was his candidate for the presidency and he endorsed Crittenden's views on the slavery question. Unbending in his belief of state-rights, he advised secession as soon as Lincoln was elected, and emphasized his opinion in this respect by informally leaving the senate; which step was followed by his being expelled in March, 1861. The ordinance of secession was soon passed, urged on by Mr. Toombs. The Montgomery convention would have considered his name in connection with the presidency of the Confederate states, but he declined, having refused cabinet offices under Presidents Fillmore and Taylor. Later he became secretary of state, temporarily

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and under protest, during the Davis term. A brig adier-generalship followed this office, in which rank he figured prominently in the Confederate army. At the close of the war, being under order for arrest, he fled to Cuba, from there to France, and thence to England, where he resumed legal practice. Subsequently, he returned to Georgia, via Canada, and passed the remainder of his life at his native place. This point is historic in the fact of its being the first town named Washington. Mr. Toombs's life-long home was an inheritance. being located on land granted his father by the governor of the state. Mr. Toombs, Sr., was of substantial English descent. and in the time of the revolution removed from Virginia to Georgia. Wealth came to Robert Toombs at an early date through professional success, and profitable land speculations in Texas. His financial standing, after the war, continued to be of its former character; and later additions to his fortune through legal business, together with his estate, valued at $500,000, left him a rich man at his death. When the question arose in the state national convention (1877) of which he was a member, as to the legitimacy of providing funds for a prolonged session, Mr. Toombs met the emergency with a payment of $30,000 from his own income, to be refunded at the next meeting of the legislature, a trust in the state which proved correct. To Mr. Toombs the national government was, in a measure, a temporary creation of the sovereign states. From Jefferson to Lincoln he had known every president, and always associated the most firmly established period of the Union with the retirement of Washington. He was a strongly marked Southerner of the old school, autocratic and arrogant, the unfailing outgrowth of slavery. Mentally, he was distinctively great, exceptionally eloquent, and personally rigidly upright, brave, and obstinate to a remarkable degree. In a letter of Gen. S. B. Buckner's, received from Gen. Grant, during the last days of his life, the latter, without mentioning names, so significantly recalled two exceptions to the restored good feeling at the South, that no one could mistake the persons alluded to for others than the persistently hostile Jefferson Davis and Robert Toombs. He had no faith in the lasting union of the states. Georgia stood first in his heart; and his native country had given to the world, he said, as many great men as any locality of equal extent. He married a Miss Dubois, a South Carolinian; and after her death, joined the Methodist church. His home was the scene of unending hospitality. The Georgians appreciated his worth, and he was highly respected by his daily associates. A year before his death his sight grew dim, and the weakening of his powerful intellect soon followed. Three generations accorded him the honor of being one of America's greatest living men. The date of his death, which took place at his home in Washington, Wilkes county, Ga., was Dec. 15, 1885.

TYLER, Daniel, soldier, was born at Brooklyn, Conn., Feb. 22, 1799. His father was a captain in the army of independence, his mother one of the numerous grandchildren of Jonathan Edwards. Gradua ting from West Point in 1819, he served as a lieutenant of artillery, was adjutant of the school of practice at Fortress Monroe 1824-26, and while commanding the arsenal at Pikesville, Md., 1826-27, translated "Manœuvres of Artillery" from the French. In 1828 he

was sent abroad to observe the French improvements in artillery. this he did at Metz and elsewhere, making an extensive collection of lithographs and drawings on the subject. In 1830 he was sent to the Springfield armory to report upon the manufacture of small arms, and became a member of the board that met to reorganize the national armories; in 1832 he was superintendent of the inspectors of arms furnished by contractors. Resiguing in 1834, he became president of an iron and coal company, introduced improvements in furnaces and rolling-mills, and was one of the first Americans to produce pig-iron. He was president of the Norwich and Worcester railroad, 1840-44, of the Morris canal company, 1844-46, and of the Macon and Western railroad, Georgia, 1846-48. For the next twelve years he was engaged in constructing several railroads in Pennsylvania. He was colonel of the 1st Connecticut regiment in April, 1861, brigadier-general of volunteers in March, 1862, and served in the army of the Mississippi, at the siege of Corinth in June, served as one of the commission to investigate Buell's Kentucky campaign, and afterward in command at Har per's Ferry, in Baltimore and in Delaware. He withdrew from the army in April, 1864, traveled for some years, and lived for a time at Red Bank, N. J. Resuming active business pursuits at an advanced age, he founded Anniston, Ala., in 1872, built ironmills, was interested in cotton, was president of the Mobile and Montgomery railroad 1873-79, and invested largely in Texas lands. He died in New York Nov. 30, 1882.

AMMEN, Daniel, naval officer, was born in Ohio May 15, 1820. He was a playfellow and lifelong friend of Gen. U. S. Grant. He entered the navy as midshipman July 7, 1836, and after thirteen years of varied and arduous service, became a lieutenant in 1849. At various times between 1842 and 1850 he was attached to the coast survey. He commanded the steamer Seneca in the capture of Port Royal Nov. 7, 1861, and commanded the monitor Patapsco at Fort McAllister in March, and in the attack on Fort Sumter, Apr. 7, 1863. He

also commanded the Mohican during the two bombardments of Fort Fisher. In May, 1864, he was detailed to take 220 men to join the Pacific squadron. He sailed from New York in the steamer Ocean Queen. The night after leaving port the men showed a mutinous disposition which developed further the next day, and the captain, fearing a mutiny, proposed putting into Hampton Roads, and getting rid of the draft. The next day the men openly attacked Capt. Tinklepaugh and his officers, whereupon Com. Ammen promptly ordered that the mutineers be fired upon, and several shots followed with deadly effect. This ended the mutiny, and

the draft in due time was placed on board the Cyane at Panama Com. Ammen returned to the United States as per order, reported the facts, and asked for a court-martial. He refused to employ counsel at his trial, and was acquitted by the court, who brought in a verdict of justifiable homicide, and even commended him for his fearless discharge of duty. He was made a captain on July 25, 1866, and later successively promoted to the ranks of commodore and rear-admiral. After the civil war he was employed in various assignments at home and abroad until his retirement under provis ions of law, June 4, 1878, more than five years before he would have been retired from age. He took a warm interest in the inter-oceanic canal question, was sent to the Paris canal congress, and later became an earnest advocate for the construction of the Nicara gua canal in our national interests. The autobiographical work from his pen, entitled "The Old Navy and the New," was published in May, 1891. He took up his residence at Annandale, Md., thirteen miles from Washington, in 1870, where he now lives.

RION, James Henry, soldier and lawyer, was born at Montreal, Can., Apr. 17, 1828. His mother, a woman of marked excellence and intelligence, came with her son, when he was seven or eight years of age, to reside in Savannah, Ga., where he attended the Chatham academy. His brightness and integrity drew attention to him, and while yet a boy was put in charge of the ice business of the city. He devoted what leisure he could secure to the study of mathematics. His mother soon after removed to Pendleton, S. C., and with her son became an inmate of the family of John C. Calhoun; and young Rion was, during this period, prepared for South Carolina college, from which he was graduated with the highest honor in 1850. He was made professor of mathematics and history in Mount Zion college, Winnsboro', S. C., was admitted to the bar in 1854, and rapidly acquired a large practice and reputation. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the Southern commercial

convention at Savannah in 1856, and at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1857. At the commencement of the civil war in 1861, he organized and commanded a company of infantry doing duty in Charleston har bor during the bombardment of Fort Sumter in April of that year, and subsequently as the field officer and commander of the 7th South Carolina regiment of volunteers, rendering efficient service in the operations on the coast of Carolina and in Virginia. He was severely wounded at Cold Harbor in Virginia in 1864, and recovering, took part in the closing scenes of the Confederate struggle. When the war closed he resumed the practice of his profession, and soon secured an ample fortune, and was everywhere recognized as one of the ablest law yers in the state. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1865, but never sought or held any political office. He was a director and attorney in several large railroad, banking, and other corporations, and a trustee of the South Caro

lina university, and fulfilled every relation of trust reposed in him with fidelity. He died at his home in Winnsboro', S. C., in 1886.

SCHLEY, Winfield Scott, naval officer, was born near Frederick, Md., Oct. 9, 1839, the descendant of a well-known family in western Maryland. He was appointed an acting midshipman in 1856, and was graduated from the U. S. naval academy in 1860. He served in the U. S. frigate Niagara in China and Japan, af ter carrying the Japanese embassy back to their own country in 1860 and 1861. The exigencies of war at that time brought officers forward very rapidly, and he was promoted to master in 1861 and ordered to the U. S. frigate Potomac. While serving in her, he was present at the occupa tion of Mexico, early in 1862, by the combined powers of Eng. land, France and Spain. When the Potomac was turned into a store-ship he was ordered to the gunboat Winona, of the West Gulf blockading squadron, and after several months of service in the Mississippi, was ordered to the steam sloop Monongahela, and subsequently to the steam sloop Richmond. He was engaged in several operations with field batteries in the river, and afterward in all the engagements which led to the capture of Port Hudson in Louisiana from March 16 to July 9, 1863. He participated in several skirmishes and in cutting out, under heavy fire, two schooners engaged in supplying the Confederates. He was commissioned as lieutenant on July 18, 1862, only two years after leaving the naval academy. From 1864 to 1866 he was attached to the steam gunboat Wateree, as executive officer in the Pacific squadron, and suppressed an insurrection among the Chinese Coolies on the Chincha Islands in 1864. In 1865 he landed with 100 men at La Union, San Salvador, to protect the custom house and U. S. consulate during a revolution. He was commissioned a lieutenantcommander in July, 1866, and upon his return from the Pacific, was ordered to the U. S. naval academy, where he remained until 1869, when he was appointed to the U. S. ship Benicia, and served in her on the Asiatic station until 1872. He participated in the attack upon, and complete overthrow of, the forces defending the forts on the Salee river in Corea, in June, 1871, when Lieut. Hugh McKee was killed at his side. After his return to the United States in the fall of 1872, he was ordered to the Naval academy as head of the department of modern languages. He was commissioned a commander in 1874, and was ordered to command the U. S. ship Essex, in 1876, and served in her on the North Atlantic, west coast of Africa and South Atlantic stations until 1879. He was inspector of the second lighthouse district of Boston, from 1880 to 1883, when he was ordered to the bureau of equipment and recruiting at Washington. When the Greely relief expedition was organized in 1884, he was sent in command of it to the North Polar regions, and on June 22d rescued Lieut. Greely and six survivors at Cape Sabine, and brought them home with great promptitude. Partly as a reward for this service he was promoted by President Arthur to chief of the bureau of equipment and recruiting in the navy department, where he served until 1888, when he was reappointed to the same position by President Cleveland, and resigned the office in 1889. While in the bureau he was promoted to a captaincy, and in leaving the position, was ordered the same year to command the new

cruiser Baltimore, and served with her in the North Atlantic, European and South Pacific stations. During his command of the Baltimore he carried back to Stockholm, Sweden, the remains of the late John Ericsson, the distinguished inventor of the Monitor. He was in command of the Baltimore during the complications and troubles in Valparaiso, Chili, in 1891. He is now (1893) on lighthouse duty as inspector of the third lighthouse district at Tompkinsville, N. Y. Capt. Schley has received two gold medals for his services, and from his native state, Maryland, a gold chronometer watch, for service in the expedition which found and rescued Lieut. Greely and the remaining survivors of the ill-fated arctic exploration party.

STEEDMAN, James Barrett, soldier, was born in Northumberland county, Pa., July 30, 1818. Migrating to Ohio at nineteen, he did some contract work on the Wabash and Erie canal, and was sent to the legislature in 1843. He was one of the "Argonauts" of 1849, crossing the plains to California at the head of a company of gold-seekers, but came back the next year, and in 1851 was a member of the state board of public works. Under President Buchanan he was at Washington as printer to congress, and in 1860 a member of the democratic national convention at Washington. In 1861 he entered the war as colonel of the 4th Ohio volunteers, was sent to western Virginia, and took part at Philippi in "the first battle of the rebellion." Joining Gen. Buell in Kentucky, he received a brigadier's commission in July, 1862, and at Perryville, Oct. 8th, arrived in time to save the day. In July, 1863, he took command of a division of the reserve corps of the army of the Cumberland. With Gen. Granger he divided the honors of reinforcing Gen. Thomas, who was thus enabled to maintain his position at Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863, against the entire Confederate army; heading a furious charge in person, he drove Gen. Hindman's division from an important position, and secured the ridge at a cost of one-fifth of his troops, and a severe wound. Thomas afterward said that he had been "beaten twice" in this great battle; he doubtless meant that he might probably have been beaten but for the timely help afforded by Steedman and Granger, who joined him when the rest of the Federal forces were in flight. Steedman was advanced to major-general of volunteers in April, 1864; took part under Gen. Sherman in the movement on Atlanta; relieved the garrison at Dalton, Ga., and defeated Gen. J. G. Wheeler's cavalry in June. Returning to the help of Gen. Thomas, when Tennessee was attacked by Gen. Hood, he took command of a provisional corps, made up of a brigade of colored troops and some 5,000 men who had failed to join their commands in time for the march to the sea, and with this irregular force did terrible execution on Hood's right flank in the battle of Nashville, Dec. 15th and 16th. He was military governor of Georgia after the war, left the army in July, 1866, and was appointed by his friend, President Johnson, collector of the port of New Orleans. In his later years he edited a paper in Ohio, and was sent to the state senate in 1879, but failed of re-election. He became chief of police of Toledo in May, 1883, and died there Oct. 18, 1883. A monument was erected to his memory in that city in 1887.

ABERT, James William, soldier, was born in Mount Holly, N. J., Nov. 18, 1820; was graduated from Princeton in 1838, and immediately entered the West Point military academy, where he was graduated in 1842. After service in the infantry he was transferred to the topographical engineers (of which corps his father, Col. J. J. Abert, was the chief), and was engaged on the survey of the northern lakes 1843-44, under Col. J. N. Macomb, U. S. engineer.

He was detailed on reconnoissances of the western prairies, and served on the expedition to New Mexico and the Rocky mountains under Col. J. C. Frémont in 1845, and was placed in command of a detachment to examine the Canadian river of northern Texas, from its source to its mouth. His map and report were published by congress (Senate Document No. 438, 29th Congress, 1st Session), thus formally connecting the name of Lieut. Abert with the physical geography and ethnol. ogy of the Rocky mountains and northern Texas. He served in the Mexican war 1846-47, under Gen. S. W. Kearny, and then made the first U. S. survey of New Mexico. After the publication of his map and report by congress, he received a land warrant for his services. In 1848 he was elected instructor and assistant professor for one year in the department of drawing and painting, and for the next year in the department of English literature, belles-lettres and moral philosophy at West Point. He superintended the western river improvements, 1850-56, acting as secretary to the board of engineers for the improvement of the falls of the Ohio in 1853. He served in the Seminole campaigns, 1856-58, under Col. Monroe, Col. Loomis and Gen. Harney, and joined Gen. Patterson's army early in 1861. On the day of the encounter at Falling Waters he was placed on the staff of Maj. Gen. Keim of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the staff of Maj. Gen. Banks in 1861-62, as chief engineer, and was specially mentioned by him in his report of the battles of May 23-24-25, 1862 (see Rebellion Record, vol. 5, doc. 15). He also took part in Maj.-Gen. Pope's campaign on the Rapidan (with Gen. Banks's division), and later ac

in the University of Missouri at Rolla. Col. Abert is an occasional contributor to the magazines in the domain of science and history.

ABERT, William Stretch, soldier, was born in Washington, D. C., Feb. 1. 1836. He was the youngest son of Col. John James Abert, who was graduated from West Point in 1811; served in the war of 1812, and was afterward in charge of the topographical bureau at Washington. William Stretch entered the army June 18, 1855, as an artillery lieutenant. At the commencement of the civil war in 1861, he was stationed at Fortress Monroe under command of Col. Dimmick. The vital importance of maintaining that fort had been duly estimated, and on the opportune arrival of reinforcements sufficient to insure its safety, Lieut. Abert was selected as the bearer of despatches to Washington, where he arrived in the face of many difficulties on the night of Apr. 21st, and promptly reported to Gen. Scott. The next day he received the thanks of the cabinet, and was immediately sent off on a secret mission to Gen. B. F. Butler at Annapolis. The commend. able manner in which this dauntless young officer performed both of these arduous duties has been worthily commemorated in a beautiful letter written by Simon Cameron (Lincoln's secretary of war) to Charles Abert, under date of Oct. 3, 1867. He said, in part: "The sad news of your gallant brother's death was received by me with deep pain and sor. When I occupied the position of secretary of war in the early part of our troubles, a young officer appeared in Washington with important despatches from Fortress Monroe. .

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His service just rendered was highly important and a dangerous one. The Capital was actually cut off from the loyal states; the approaches to Washington were in the hands of the Confederates; the roads were infested with guerrillas, and the darkest hour of the republic was over us. This gallant young officer was your brother, Lieut. Abert. I set him

of the way was through the enemy's country, and every moment of the time the gallant young soldier was in danger of his life. This act, performed long ago, was but an earnest of that high and chivalrous devotion to his country and his duty, which in the end lost to the army one of its highest ornaments, and to our country one of its purest patriots." He was appointed captain of the 3d U. S. cavalry May 14, 1861. He served for a time on the staff of Gen. Charles P. Stone, then under McClellan through the peninsula campaign and at the battle of Antietam, under Gen. Banks in Louisiana, and finally as colonel of the 3d Massachusetts heavy artillery in the defences of Washington. He was brevetted major, U. S. A., May 27, 1862, for gallant service at Hanover Court House, lieutenant-colonel Sept. 16, 1862, after Antietam, and brigadier general March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services during the war. Afterward he became assistant inspector-general of the district of Texas. In June, 1867, he was promoted major in the 7th U. S. cavalry. Gen. Abert died of yellow fever at Galveston, Tex., Aug. 25, 1867, just one week after the death of his beloved wife from the same epidemic. Through the kindness of Gen. Grant the remains of this brave young officer and his wife were brought to Washington and interred in Rock Creek cemetery.

RODMAN, Thomas Jefferson, soldier, was born at Salem, Washington county, Ind., July 30, 1818. He was graduated from West Point in 1841, and served in the war with Mexico; but his talents were early recognized as fitting him for a peculiar work, and he was encouraged to devote them to experiments which resulted in notable changes in some of the materials of war. Beginning with the twelveinch columbiads, invented long before by Col. G. Bomford, and adopted by the French as Paixhan guns," he devised the method of casting guns hollow and cooling them from within. In 1860 his fifteen-inch gun was completed, as also his mammoth powder and perforated cake powder; the latter was quickly adopted by Russia and other governments of Europe. See his "Report of Experiments on Metals for Cannon and Cannon - Powder" (1861). These devices were just in time for the civil war, during which many of his guns were constructed for use in the navy and the army. The method was also applied to shells. Rodman became a captain in 1855, a major in 1863, a lieutenant-colonel in 1867, and received, March 13, 1865, the brevets of colonel and brigadier-general. Most of his active life was spent in arsenals at Pittsburg, at Watertown, Conn., and finally at Rock Island, Ill., where he was in command from August, 1865. His mammoth powder has been used for heavy guns by the United States since 1861, and of late by Great Britain. He died June 7, 1871.

VEAZEY, Wheelock Graves, soldier, was born at Brentwood, N. H., Dec. 5, 1835, the son of Jonathan Veazey, and Anne S., his wife. The original name was Vesci, the family having been traced back to Viscount de Vesci, who was one of the followers of William the Conqueror, in his invasion of England. According to the best information he settled in Ireland, and subsequently some of the descendants drifted to England, and the name became Anglicized, the orthography being changed to Vesey, which form is retained by many branches of the family in this country. In other cases the word is spelled variously Veazie, Veazey and Veasey. Benjamin Veasey, an ancestor of the family, of whom most authentic records have been preserved, lived and died in Brentwood, Rockingham county, N. H. Jonathan Veazey was born in 1791, pursued the occupation of a farmer, was a substantial citizen, and prominent member of the Baptist church. He married Anne, daughter of Edward