. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy . eral Wood gives the impressionof being a large man, although he lacks at least aninch of beinof six feet tall. He is what an athlete 7 2o8 would call well put up —powerful of shoulders audarms, with a large head and short neck. He stoopsslightly, aud steps with a long, swift stride, rollingsomewhat, seamanlike, in his walk. His face is oneof great strength—large featured, calm, studious, andnow lean and bronzed from serving in the rarely smiles, and ordinarily has very little tosay, and that in a low, even voice
. Biographical sketches of distingushed officers of the army and navy . eral Wood gives the impressionof being a large man, although he lacks at least aninch of beinof six feet tall. He is what an athlete 7 2o8 would call well put up —powerful of shoulders audarms, with a large head and short neck. He stoopsslightly, aud steps with a long, swift stride, rollingsomewhat, seamanlike, in his walk. His face is oneof great strength—large featured, calm, studious, andnow lean and bronzed from serving in the rarely smiles, and ordinarily has very little tosay, and that in a low, even voice; and yet, when inthe mood, he tells a story with great spirit and witha certain fine directness. He enjo3^s keenly a quietsocial gathering; but a function in which he mustappear as the guest of honor is an undisguised terrorto him. He dresses alwa^^s, whether in khaki or inArmy blue, with trim neatness, and he makes a strik-ingly powerful figure in the saddle. At forty-one General Wood is in the prime of avigorous manhood and at the beginning of a BRIGADIER-GENERAL HARRISON GRAY STATES VOLUNTEERS. 211 Brigadier-General HARRISON GRAY OTIS. United States Volimteers. Is the son of Stephen and Sarah Otis, who werepioneer citizens of Ohio, and was born near Marietta,February lo, 1837. ^^^ ^^^ Y^^^ ^^o*^ ^^^ father, atthe age of sixteen, emigrated to the far West fromVermont, and settled in the Ohio Companys Pur-chase at Marietta, then just emerging from the con-dition of a frontier blockhouse post. His motherwas a native of Nova Scotia, and emigrated with herparents froiii Boston early in the century, settling inthe Mnskingum Valley. His paternal grandfatherwas a patriot soldier in the Revolutionary War, and apensioner. The Otis stock has produced James Otis, famousas a Revolutionary patriot and orator, and HarrisonGray Otis, once a Senator of the United States fromMassachusetts. The subject of this sketch received only a log-school-house education u
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