Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . Butlers Analogy, which was afterward com-pletedand published by Dr. Crooks(1850).—BishopEmorys first cousin, William Hemsley, soldier,b. in Queen Anne county, Md., 9 Sept., 1811; d. inWashington,, 1 Dec, 1887, was graduated at theU. >. military academy in 1831. and appointed lieu-tenant of artillery. He was chiefly at sea-ports in1831-6, and was in Charleston harbor during thenullification trouble in South Carolina. He wasin the Creek nation in 1830-8, was appointed 1stlieutenant of topographical engineers in the latteryear, and employed suc
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . Butlers Analogy, which was afterward com-pletedand published by Dr. Crooks(1850).—BishopEmorys first cousin, William Hemsley, soldier,b. in Queen Anne county, Md., 9 Sept., 1811; d. inWashington,, 1 Dec, 1887, was graduated at theU. >. military academy in 1831. and appointed lieu-tenant of artillery. He was chiefly at sea-ports in1831-6, and was in Charleston harbor during thenullification trouble in South Carolina. He wasin the Creek nation in 1830-8, was appointed 1stlieutenant of topographical engineers in the latteryear, and employed successively on the improve-ments of Delaware river, and on the northeastboundary survey. He went with Gen. Stephen to California in 1840, and was on his staffduring the Mexican war, when he was successivelymade captain and brevet -major. He was on theMexican and Californian border in 1848-53, andin those years was commissioner and astronomerto run the boundary between Mexico and theUnited States, especially under the Gadsden treaty. /frWAtotny of 1853. He was in Kansas in 1854, in Utah in1858, and remained on border duty till 9 May, 1861, when he resigned. He was reappointed aslieutenant-colonel of the 6th cavalry on 14 May,and he took part in the peninsular campaign, beingengaged at Yorktown, Williamsburg, and Han-over Court - House. He was made briga-dier-general of vol-unteers, 17 March, 1862, commandeda division underBanks in Louisianain 1863, and, hav-ing been raised tothe command of the19th corps, was withthe same command-er in 1864 in theRed river expedi-tion, in which hedisplayed unwontedbravery and skill,winning distinctionespecially at Sa-bine Cross - Roads,at Pleasant Hill, andat Cane River. Later in the same year, at thehead of the 19th corps, he offered a splendid andsuccessful resistance to Early in the Shenandoahvalley, especially at Opequan Creek, 19 Sept., atFishers Hill, 22 Sept., and at Cedar Creek in Octo-ber. He received the successive brevets of
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