. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . NorthCarolina. At the close of the war he was appointedpresident of a court-martial in Washington, and brevettedmajor-general. He was then appointed minister to the Hague, whichposition he occupied four years, and, after travelling overthe most of Europe, returned to Washington and re-sumed the practice of the law. He was soon obliged,however, by ill health to abandon his profession, and re-tired to Idleside, his suburban residence near Lancaster,( >hio, devoting his time to horticulture and literary pur-suits, publis
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . NorthCarolina. At the close of the war he was appointedpresident of a court-martial in Washington, and brevettedmajor-general. He was then appointed minister to the Hague, whichposition he occupied four years, and, after travelling overthe most of Europe, returned to Washington and re-sumed the practice of the law. He was soon obliged,however, by ill health to abandon his profession, and re-tired to Idleside, his suburban residence near Lancaster,( >hio, devoting his time to horticulture and literary pur-suits, publishing, among other things, a novel entitled A Castle in the Air. In 1858 General Ewing married Henrietta Young,daughter of George Washington Young, a planter of theDistrict of Columbia and Prince Georges County, de-scendant of Benjamin Young, who early came over tothe province as commissioner of crown lands, and byhis mothers side, of Cuthbert Fenwick, an officer ofLord Baltimore, who crossed in The Ark and theDove in 1634. !28 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). BREVET BRIGADIER-GENERAL CHARLES HAMLIN, Brevet Brigadier-General Charles Hamlin, sonof Hannibal Hamlin, has a revolutionary ancestry. Hispaternal great-grandfather was a major, and enlisted fiveof his suns in the same company. General Hamlin wasborn at Hampden, Maine, September 13, 1837; wasgraduated at Bowdoin College in 1857, and after readinglaw with his father, was admitted to the bar of theSupreme Judicial Court of Maine in October, 1858. Before he entered the military service he activelyengaged in recruiting for various regiments and the navy,obtaining commissions for officers in the First MaineCavalry and as acting masters in the navy. In the sum-mer of 1862 he assisted in raising the Eighteenth MaineInfantry, afterwards reorganized into the First MaineHeavy Artillery, second on the list of Foxs RegimentalLosses, and was mustered as major in August, 1862. He served with this regiment in the defence
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