Biographical sketches of distinguished officers of the army and navy . ^ 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 enjoys keenly a quietsocial gathering; but a function in which he mustappear as the guest of honor is an undisguised terrorto him. He dresses always, whether in khaki or inArmy blue, with trim neatness, and he makes a strik-ingh- powerful figure in the saddle. At fortv-one General Wood is in the prime of avigorous manhood and at the beginning of a n
Biographical sketches of distinguished officers of the army and navy . ^ 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 enjoys keenly a quietsocial gathering; but a function in which he mustappear as the guest of honor is an undisguised terrorto him. He dresses always, whether in khaki or inArmy blue, with trim neatness, and he makes a strik-ingh- powerful figure in the saddle. At fortv-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 Volunteers. Is the son of Stephen and Sarah Otis, who werepioneer citizens of Ohio, and was born near Marietta,February lo, 1837. In tlie year 1800 his father, atthe age of sixteen, emigrated to the far West fromVermont, and settled in the Ohio Compan\s 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 from Boston early in the century, settling inthe Muskingum Valley. His paternal grandfatherwas a patriot soldier in the Revolutionary War, and apensioner. The Otis stock has produced James Otis, famousas a Revolutionarj- 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 up to the age of fourteen,when he became a printers apprentice. He workedat
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