Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . mmanded the3d army corps in its operations at Mine Run, fromNovember, 1863, till May, 1864, when he was mus-tered out of volunteer service. He commandedthe 2d artillery on the Pacific coast from 1865 till1872, and in 1875, having passed through the suc-cessive military grades, was appointed lieutenant-colonel, in command at Fort McHenry, July, 1880, at his own request, being over sixty-two vears of age, he was retired. FRENEAU, Philip, poet, b. in New York city,2 Jan., 1752: d. near Freehold, N. J., 18 Dec, was graduated at Pri
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . mmanded the3d army corps in its operations at Mine Run, fromNovember, 1863, till May, 1864, when he was mus-tered out of volunteer service. He commandedthe 2d artillery on the Pacific coast from 1865 till1872, and in 1875, having passed through the suc-cessive military grades, was appointed lieutenant-colonel, in command at Fort McHenry, July, 1880, at his own request, being over sixty-two vears of age, he was retired. FRENEAU, Philip, poet, b. in New York city,2 Jan., 1752: d. near Freehold, N. J., 18 Dec, was graduated at Princeton in 1771. Some ofhis published poems were written before he leftcollege. He made a voyage to the Danish WestIndies in 1776, and there wrote several of his long-est poems. In 1778 he visited Bermuda, and onhis return became a contributor to The UnitedStates Magazine, edited by Hugh H. Bracken-ridge. On a second voyage in 1780 to the WestIndies he was captured by an English cruiser, andhis experiences as a prisoner are recorded in bitter. terms in The British Prison-Ship. On regain-ing his liberty the, next year, he wrote frequentlyin prose and verse, for the Freemans Journal. After the, close of the \v;ir he was variously em-ployed as an editor, and master of a vessel in voy-ages to the, West, Indies and to the southernuntil 1790, when he became editor of the NewYork Daily Advertiser. Jefferson became in-terested in him, and appointed him translator forthe state department, and at the same time Vr<--neau assumed the editorship of the National Ga-zette. The violence of this papers attacks on theFederalists aroused Hamiltons ire. who accusedFreneau of being the pensioned tool of Jefferson,which compelled the latter to write an explanatoryletter to Washington. Freneaus next newspaperundertaking was the Jersey Chronicle, which hepublished for a short time at his residence, MountPleasant, N. J. In 1707 he issued in New Yorkthe Time-piece andLiterary Companion,but his connec
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