Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . 2) professor, of pathol- _ and the practice of medicine in the New York _-•• of physicians and surgeons; consulting phy-sician to Bellevue hospital (1**5); and (1880) first lent of the Association of American physi- - and pathologies lie has written: Manualof Physical Diagnosis (1878); Hand-book of Mortem Examinal ions and .Morbid Anatomy I ; ?? Studies in Pathological Anatomy (1882);and •• Band-book of Pathological Anatomy (1885).—Riehard, military engineer, son of .John, senior;b. in New York citv, 1 1798; d. in Wash-ington, 5 Nov., l^;:;.
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . 2) professor, of pathol- _ and the practice of medicine in the New York _-•• of physicians and surgeons; consulting phy-sician to Bellevue hospital (1**5); and (1880) first lent of the Association of American physi- - and pathologies lie has written: Manualof Physical Diagnosis (1878); Hand-book of Mortem Examinal ions and .Morbid Anatomy I ; ?? Studies in Pathological Anatomy (1882);and •• Band-book of Pathological Anatomy (1885).—Riehard, military engineer, son of .John, senior;b. in New York citv, 1 1798; d. in Wash-ington, 5 Nov., l^;:;. He was graduated at theiry academy in 1818 at the head of his- immediately promoted to be 2d lieu-tenant of engineers,being assigned to duly withthe American boundary commission under thep of Ghent. In 1820 he received his commis-sion as 1st lieutenant, and in 1828 was made 1810 till 1838 he was employed in the con-struction of the defences of Hampton I toads, assuperintending engineer on the fortifications in the. ^U^^ vicinity of the Mississippi, and those on or nearDelaware river and bay. Promoted to the rank ofmajor in 1838, he was appointed superintendent ofthe U. S. military academy at West Point, where heremained for seven years, and subsequently held theoffice from 1856 till March, 1861, when he was re-lieved, at his own request. From 1846 till 1855 hesuperintended the defences of New York harborand the Hudson river improvements, with the ex-ception of tenmonths, whenhe acted aschief engin-eer of the De-part ment ofTexas. Dur-ing the Cri-mean war(1855-6) hewas orderedto Europe incompanywithCapt. (after-ward ) Mc-Clellan andMaj. Mor-decai to re-port on anychanges thathad been made in modem warfare. His elab-orate report was printed by congress in 1860. Hewas made lieutenant-colonel in 1861, colonel in 1863, brigadier-general and chief of engineers in 1864, and received the brevet rank of major-general, 13 May, 1865, for faithful, meritor
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