. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . h schools in Bethlehem, finishing-under the direction of Professor B. Van-kirk, and entered Yale in the sophomoreyear. In his junior year he won theLatin prize for prose composition, and inhis senior year the valedictory. He wasgraduated A. B., class of 1857. He thenbegan the study of the law at Yale, con-tinuing under Governor A. H. Reeder, ofEaston, Pennsylvania, and entered Har-vard Law School, whence he was grad-uated , class of 1859. He then con-tinued legal study at the University ofHeidelberg, Germany, during 1859 andi860, ma
. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . h schools in Bethlehem, finishing-under the direction of Professor B. Van-kirk, and entered Yale in the sophomoreyear. In his junior year he won theLatin prize for prose composition, and inhis senior year the valedictory. He wasgraduated A. B., class of 1857. He thenbegan the study of the law at Yale, con-tinuing under Governor A. H. Reeder, ofEaston, Pennsylvania, and entered Har-vard Law School, whence he was grad-uated , class of 1859. He then con-tinued legal study at the University ofHeidelberg, Germany, during 1859 andi860, making a specialty of civil law. Inthe latter part of i860 he attended lawlectures on the Code of Napoleon atParis. Returning to the United States, he con-tinued his legal studies at Philadelphiauntil 1861, when he enlisted and wasmustered into the United States serviceAugust 15, as captain of Company A,Fourth Regiment Pennsylvania Volun-teer Cavalry. On October 18 of the sameyear he was commissioned major of thesame regiment, and in December follow- 328. ^^^^S^27^C ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY ing was assigned to an independent cav-alry command attached to Keyes divis-ion of the Army of the Potomac. InFebruary, 1862, he was placed in com-mand of the mounted provost guard ofWashington City, and after the departureof the army under General McClellan,was appointed provost marshal of thecity and military district of Washington, •his jurisdiction extending from the capi-tal city to the mouth of Chesapeake power was almost unlimited, hisforce including a brigade of men and aflotilla on the bay. After a year of ardu-ous, thankless and really unpleasant dutyin this position, he requested and re-ceived permission to rejoin his regiment,not, however, without receiving assur-ances of the good-will of the citizens ofWashington anil of the satisfaction ofSecretary Stanton, to whom he was di-rectly responsible, for the moderate andjudicious use of the authority withwhich he was investe
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