. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . , was engaged in guarding General Shermans com-munications and making raids, with constant heavyskirmishes with the enemy ; and in the march tothe sea, in actions at Lovejoy, Walnut Creek, SylvanGrove, Rocky Creek, Waynesborough, Salkehatchie,Monroes Cross-Roads, Raleigh, and Morristown, April13, 1865. He was promoted captain First Artillery, November50, 1864, and was brevetted from major to major-generalin the regular army for gallant and meritorious services,and was appointed major-general of volunteers June iX,1865. H
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . , was engaged in guarding General Shermans com-munications and making raids, with constant heavyskirmishes with the enemy ; and in the march tothe sea, in actions at Lovejoy, Walnut Creek, SylvanGrove, Rocky Creek, Waynesborough, Salkehatchie,Monroes Cross-Roads, Raleigh, and Morristown, April13, 1865. He was promoted captain First Artillery, November50, 1864, and was brevetted from major to major-generalin the regular army for gallant and meritorious services,and was appointed major-general of volunteers June iX,1865. He was in command of the Third Division of theCavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi, fromApril 26 to June 13, 1865, and on leave of absence andawaiting orders until he resigned. He resigned his volunteer commission January I, 1866,having been appointed United States Envoy Extraor-dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Chili in resigned his commission as captain First U. S. Artil-lery, October 15, 1867. i3» OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). BRIGADIER- AND BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL CHARLESEDWARD HOVEY, Brigadier- and Brevet Major-General CharlesEdward Hovey grewupon a farm in Thetford, Vermont,where he was born April 26, [827. He was the ninth ina family of seven buys and four girls. He graduatedfrom Dartmouth College as a Bachelor of Arts in 1852,and thereafter engaged in educational work up to August,[86] ; in military service to May, 1863 ; in seeking resto-ration of impaired health to 1869; and in the practice oflaw since, to (892. 1 lis first work,after graduation from college, was done inFramingham, Massachusetts, as principal of the Academyand I ligh School; his next in Peoria, Illinois,as principal ofa boys school, and as superintendent of public in Peoria he served one year as president of theState Teachers Association, then as now an influentialbody, and two years as editor of its organ, The IllinoisTeacher. His last educat
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