Governors of Washington, territorial and state . le. Stevens alsoaided in the organization of the District of Columbiamilitia to protect the national capital. Soon after Fort Sumter was fired upon he volun-teered and was made colonel of the Seventy-ninthHighlanders, a volunteer regiment of New won rapid promotion and after Gen. Popes defeatat the second battle of Bull Run, Stevens was beingconsidered by President Lincoln as a new commanderof the Army of the Potomac. This, of course, wasended by the death of Stevens at Chantilly duringthe retreat of Popes army from Bull Run. During the
Governors of Washington, territorial and state . le. Stevens alsoaided in the organization of the District of Columbiamilitia to protect the national capital. Soon after Fort Sumter was fired upon he volun-teered and was made colonel of the Seventy-ninthHighlanders, a volunteer regiment of New won rapid promotion and after Gen. Popes defeatat the second battle of Bull Run, Stevens was beingconsidered by President Lincoln as a new commanderof the Army of the Potomac. This, of course, wasended by the death of Stevens at Chantilly duringthe retreat of Popes army from Bull Run. During the making of the Indian treaties in1855, Stevens was accompanied by his son Hazard,then a boy of 13 years. During the battle of Chan-tilly, Hazard Stevens, a member of his fathers staff,lay wounded not far from where the father met hisdeath. Before the war ended, Hazard Stevens hadrisen to the rank of brigadier general. He is nowa highly-respected pioneer citizen of Olympia. FAYETTE McMULLIN FAYETTE McMULLEN Second Territorial Governor1857 to 1859. NO. II.—FAYETTE McMULLIN The first United States marshal of Washingtonterritory, J. Patton Anderson, had been elected asthe second delegate to congress in 1855. As was elected to that position in 1857, the gov-ernorship was given to Mr. Anderson. He did notqualify, however, and Charles H. Mason, secretaryof the territory, became acting governor until Fay-ette McMullin, the new appointee, qualified for theplace. To pioneer citizens the name of this secondgovernor of the territory brings up an unpleasantsuggestion of divorce. Bancrofts history of the stateof Washington says: The successor of Stevens wasFayette McMulin, of Virginia, a politician, whosechief object in coming to Washington seems to havebeen to get rid of one wife and marry another. Those were the clays of legislative divorces. Ar-thur A. Denny was a leading Whig, and later a Re-publican. Gov. McMullin was anxious to secure hisvote declaring a divorce between Mr
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