. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . equan, September 19, and Fishers Hill, 23d 1864; Cedar (leek, Oct. 19, 1864 ; beside a num-ber of skirmishes. He commanded the Sei ond Brigadeof the Third Division at the battle of Cedar Creek. ( >nhis return Colonel Ball resumed the practice of the law,and continued therein until August, 1879. In October, 1871,11c was elected to the State Legis-lature for a term of two years, and in the spring of 1873he was defeated as a candidate for a seat in the Consti-tutional Convention. In 187S he was elected to theCom
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . equan, September 19, and Fishers Hill, 23d 1864; Cedar (leek, Oct. 19, 1864 ; beside a num-ber of skirmishes. He commanded the Sei ond Brigadeof the Third Division at the battle of Cedar Creek. ( >nhis return Colonel Ball resumed the practice of the law,and continued therein until August, 1879. In October, 1871,11c was elected to the State Legis-lature for a term of two years, and in the spring of 1873he was defeated as a candidate for a seat in the Consti-tutional Convention. In 187S he was elected to theCommon Pleas bench for the counties of Muskingum,Guernsey, Noble, and Morgan, fora term of five years, andat the close of the term he was defeated for re-election,since which time he has continued the practice of law. In politics he was a Whig until 1866, refusing to identifyhimself with Free-Soilers or Know-Nothings. Inradically disapproving the Republican policy of nstruction, he became a Democrat. He never sought anoffice. 3»4 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer). LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM PETERS HEPBURN, Lieutenant-Colonel William Peters Hepburn (ofthe Second Iowa Cavalry Volunteers) was born in Co-lumbiana County, Ohio, November 4, 1833. He was theyoungest son of Lieutenant James S. Hepburn, UnitedStates Arm}, who was one of the early graduates fromthe West Point Military Academy after its reorganizationin 1816. Lieutenant Hepburns father was a New Yorker,of Scotch descent, who married a daughter of one of theold Holland families,—early settlers in New York. Col-onel Hepburns mother was Miss Ann Fairfax Catlett,the daughter of Dr. Hansom Catlett of the army. Shewas a granddaughter of Matthew Lyon, and a great-granddaughter of Governor Chittenden, of Hepburns step-father, George S. Hampton, re-moved to the Territory of Iowa in 1840. His early life-was spent in Iowa City and on a farm in its vicinity. Heattended for .1 time such day-schools as th
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