The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e camp, took care of the living and trans-ferred the dead to the ships. Lieutenant Lockwooddied Apr. 9, 1884, at Cape Sabme, under arcticskies. He was buried in his officers blouse
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e camp, took care of the living and trans-ferred the dead to the ships. Lieutenant Lockwooddied Apr. 9, 1884, at Cape Sabme, under arcticskies. He was buried in his officers blouse in adesolate spot called Cemetery ridge, but there wasnot enough strength among the remaining membersof the expedition to cover the dazzling buttons on hismartial shroud from sight. On its rettirn to the statesthe body of the brave Lockwood was deposited in itsfinal resting-place in the grounds the Naval acad-emy on the banks of the Potomac. BBAINABD, David liegg, arctic explorer,was born in Norway, Herkimer county, N. Y., , 1856. His father was of French extraction, andhis mother of English descent. His e&rlj educationwas gained in the district school until his eleventhyear, when his fathers family removed to Freetown,N. Y., where he attended the State normal the ^ge of twenty, he enlisted in New York cityin the Iegidar army, and was assigned to service in OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 287. the second cavalry, then stationed at Fort Ellis,Montana Territory. He joined the troops late in theyear alter an arduous journey of five hundred mileson horseback from Corinne, Utah. He participatedm the Indian campaigns under Gen. Miles along theYellowstone river and its tributaries, and was^°-i!r° J J ^ ^^^ ^*°® during a battle with the Sioux,at Muddy creek, Montana, May 7, 1877. In the fol-lowmg August, he was one of lour men to act as es-cort to Gen. Sherman and party in his tour throughthe National park. Two months later he was madea corporal, and m July, 1879, prom
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