Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . and in thepursuit of the enemy during Marmadukes raid intoMissouri. He led a cavalry division from June tillSeptember, commanded in the actions at Browns-ville, Bayou Metre, and Ashleys Mills. Ark., andtook part in the capture of Little Rock. He wasmade chief of cavalry of the military division westof the Mississippi on 26 June, 1864, and on 24 a cavalry expedition from Baton Rouge to Pas-cagoula. He was brevetted brigadier-general inthe regular army on 13 March, 1865. for the captureof Little Rock, and major-general for his servicesduring
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . and in thepursuit of the enemy during Marmadukes raid intoMissouri. He led a cavalry division from June tillSeptember, commanded in the actions at Browns-ville, Bayou Metre, and Ashleys Mills. Ark., andtook part in the capture of Little Rock. He wasmade chief of cavalry of the military division westof the Mississippi on 26 June, 1864, and on 24 a cavalry expedition from Baton Rouge to Pas-cagoula. He was brevetted brigadier-general inthe regular army on 13 March, 1865. for the captureof Little Rock, and major-general for his servicesduring the war. He was made lieutenant-colonelof the 10th cavalry on 1 Dec, 1866, was acting in-spector-general of the Department of the Missourifrom November, 1866, till December. 1867. and pro-fessor of military science in Kansas agriculturalcollege from 1868 till 1871. He then commandedvarious posts in Idaho and Texas, and, in district of Upper Brazos, Tex. On 20 March,1879, he was made colonel of the 2d cavalry. 88 DAVIDSON DAVIDSON. DAY IDSON, Maria. poet,b, in Platts-\ Y\,27Sept., 1808; d. there, 87 1825.:• Davidson, was a physician, andher mother, Margaret Miller, was an author. Ations from Mrs, Davidsons writings- d, with a preface by Miss C. M, Sedg-wick, in 1^44. after the poems oi her daughter hadmade them famous, Lucretia, when four yearsold, was sent to Plattsburg academy, where shelearned t«> read and to form the Roman letters inBand. Soon afterward her mother observed thatwriting-paper was disappearing strangely, and finally discov-ered a pile of lit-tle blank-books,containing art-fully sketchedpictures, withdescriptions inpoetry, all print-ed in Roman let-tors, turned andtwisted in cu-rious child wasso mortified atthe discovery ofwhat she hadbeen doing thatshe burned allher work. Shelearned to write_ . in her seventh J?jm*D, Tped ^ t-t fondness forreading. Before she was twelve she had readmuch history, and the dramatic w
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