. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . n 1863 he wasplaced in command of the Department of Virginia andNorth Carolina, and his force was afterwards designatedas the Army of the James. In December he conductedan ineffectual expedition against Fort Fisher, near Wil-mington, North Carolina, and was soon after removedfrom command by General Grant. Few general officerssaw more trying service than General Butler. GeneralButler died in Washington, after a few hours illness, Jan-uary 9, 1893. After returning to his home in Massachusetts, he waselected, in 1866, to Co
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . n 1863 he wasplaced in command of the Department of Virginia andNorth Carolina, and his force was afterwards designatedas the Army of the James. In December he conductedan ineffectual expedition against Fort Fisher, near Wil-mington, North Carolina, and was soon after removedfrom command by General Grant. Few general officerssaw more trying service than General Butler. GeneralButler died in Washington, after a few hours illness, Jan-uary 9, 1893. After returning to his home in Massachusetts, he waselected, in 1866, to Congress as a Republican 1882 the Democrats united upon him as their candi-date for governor, and he was elected, although the restof the State ticket was defeated. In 1884 he was a can-didate of the Greenback and Anti-Monopolist party forthe Presidency, receiving one hundred and thirty-threethousand eight hundred and twenty-five votes. General Butlers daughter married General AdelbertAmes of the United States army. 20S OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY {volunteer). COLONEL JOHN FRANK HERRICK, Colonel John Frank Herrick was born February23, 1836, at Wellington, ( >hio. Reared upon a farm andattending the public schools until twenty years old, in1856 he was sent to Oberlin College, and graduated there-from in [862. One term before graduating, his interest111 the war became so intense that he left college againstthe protest of his professors, recruited .1 company for theEighty-seventh Ohio Infantry, designed to help driveStonewall Jackson out of the Shenandoah Valley, andwas elected and commissioned its captain. He com-manded a battalion at Harpers Ferry during the skir-mishing which preceded the capture of the place byJackson, just before the battles of Antietam and SouthMountain. Released on parole, he returned to < )hio andfound his college diploma awaiting him, ami then studiedlaw with his brother, G. E. Herrick, in Cleveland, Ohio,and in the law college then
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