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 . with Mexico, at first under Gen. Taylor, andthen on the staff of Gen. Pillow; took part in mostof the battles from Monterey to the taking of thecapital city, and was brevetted capt
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 . with Mexico, at first under Gen. Taylor, andthen on the staff of Gen. Pillow; took part in mostof the battles from Monterey to the taking of thecapital city, and was brevetted captain and major forgallantry at Cerro Gordo and Chapultepec. He wasin Florida in 1849, and in 1853 left the army and set-tled at Charleston, S. C, his wifes home; here hewent into business, and was an officer of the directed the firing upon Fort Sumter in April,1861, became a brigadier-general, and for a yearheld a command in his adopted state. In 1863 hetook part in the defence of Richmond, and in thebattles near that city and in Maryland, receiving awound at Antietam. In 1863 he had charge of thedefence of Charleston, and after its fall went againto Virginia, serving under Gen. Lee until the end ofthe war. After that he went to Europe, spent someyears in Paris, but later resumed business at Charles-ton. He wrote a History of the War with Mex-ico (3 vols., 1849). He died in New York March36, 300 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA
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