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Rh artillery, the ordnance department being at that time merged in the artillery, with commission dat- ing from 1 July, 1821 He was promoted 1st lieu- tenant on 1 March, 1825, and captain on 31 Dec, 1835, and in the Florida war against the Seminole Indians distinguished himself in the skirmish at San Velasco, in the battle of Wahoo Swamp, and in other actions, and was brevetted major on 11 Sept., 1836. He was appointed captain and assist- ant quartermaster on 7 July, 1838, became a major on the staff on 22 July, 1842, and during the Mexi- can war had charge of the forwarding of supplies from Philadelphia, receiving the brevet of lieuten- ant-colonel on 30 May, 1848, for meritorious per- formance of duties connected with the prosecution of the war. He was made a full lieutenant-colonel on 16 Sept., 1851, and colonel and assistant quar- termaster-general on 22 Dec, 1856, and from the beginning of the civil war till the time of his death he served as depot quartermaster 'in New York city, furnishing supplies to the armies in the field. — A son of the second Daniel D., Charles H., soldier, b. in Fort Monroe, Va., 12 Sept., 1830, was educated at Kinsley's school at West Point, N. Y., and for two years at the U. S. military acad- emy, but resigned without completing the course. He entered the service in 1856 in the dragoons, and after an enlistment of three years on the frontier, during which he passed through the principal non- commissioned grades, he was appointed 2d lieuten- ant in the 2d U. S. cavalry, 23 March-, 1861, and was promoted 1st lieutenant in April of the same year. While commanding a squadron of his regi- ment, the 5th cavalry, within the defences of Wash- ington, he made a dashing reconnoissance in the direction of Fairfax Court-House, Va., 31 May, 1861. It was at night and resulted in the capture of two outposts of the enemy, with an estimated loss of twenty-five Confederates. Lieut. Tompkins charged three times through the town, losing sev- eral men and horses, including two chargers which were shot under him. As one of the first cavalry affairs of the war, it attracted wide attention. Sub- sequently he served in the battle of Bull Run and upon the staff of Gen. George Stoneman. He was appointed captain and assistant quartermaster, served for a few months as colonel of the 1st Ver- mont cavalry, as lieutenant-colonel and quarter- master of volunteers in 1865-'6, and colonel and quartermaster in 1866-'7. He was made deputy quartermaster-general in the regular army in 1866, and assistant quartermaster-general with rank of colonel, 24 Jan., 1881. He participated in the operations of Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks and Gen. John Pope in the Shenandoah campaign, and was recommended for the appointment of brigadier- general of volunteers for conspicuous services at the battle of Cedar Creek, Va. He has served from 1865 till 1888 as chief quartermaster of the prin- cipal military divisions of the army, and was at the last-named date chief quartermaster of the divis- ion of the Atlantic. He was brevetted major for Fairfax Court-House, lieutenant-colonel for the Shenandoah campaign, and colonel and brigadier- general, 13 March, 1865, for meritorious services during the war.

TOMPSON, William, clergyman, b. in Lancashire, England, in 1598 ; d. in Braintree, Mass., 10 Dec, 1666. He emigrated to this country about 1634, and became first pastor of the church at Braintree (now Quincy). He went on a mission to Virginia in 1642, but was silenced for non-conform- ity and compelled to return to New England. He was an acceptable preacher, and described by Cot- ton Mather as a "pillar of the American church " ; but he was subject to fits of depression, and in one of them committed suicide. His contemporaries describe him as "an author of reputation," but, with the exception of several prefaces to the books of others, his publications have all perished. — His son, Benjamin, educator, b. in Braintree, Mass., 14 July, 1642 ; d. 13 April, 1714, was graduated at Harvard in 1662, became master of the Boston Latin-school in 1667, and three years later took charge of the Cambridge school, preparatory to Harvard, which post he held for nearly forty years. He probably died in Cambridge, but is buried in Roxbury. The inscription on his tombstone de- scribes him as " a learned school-master and phy- sician, and y e renowned poet of New England." He wrote an " Elegy on the Rev. Samuel Whit- ing, of Lynn, Mass.," which is printed in Cotton Mather's " Magnalia," and a poem of some merit descriptive of King Philip's war, entitled " New England's Crisis " (Cambridge, 1675). — Benjamin's son, Edward, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass., 20 April, 1665 ; d. in Marshfield, Mass., 10 March, 1705, was graduated at Harvard in 1684, taught for several years at Newbury, and from 14 Oct., 1696, until his death was pastor of the church at Marshfield, Mass. On his tombstone is inscribed :

His last sermons, entitled " Heaven the Best Coun- try," were published (1712).

TONE, William Theobald Wolfe, soldier, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 29 April, 1791 ; d. in New York city, 10 Oct., 1828. He was the eldest son of the Irish patriot and French general, Theobald Wolfe Tone. After the tragic death of his father he was declared an adopted child of the French republic by the Directory, and educated with his younger brother in the Prytaneum and Imperial lyceum at the national expense. During this period he wrote a work on the legislation of the Goths in Italy, which was favorably noticed by the institute. He was appointed a cadet in the Imperial school of cavalry on 3 Nov., 1810, and remained there until January, 1813, when he was promoted to be sub-lieutenant in the 8th regiment of chasseurs. He distinguished himself in the engagements of that year, and received six lance wounds at the battle of Leipsic He was then made lieutenant on the staff, aide-de-camp to Gen. Bagneres, and member of the Legion of honor. After the fall of Napoleon he gave himself to literary and antiquarian studies. But, when Louis XVIII. left the kingdom, he considered himself absolved from his allegiance, and served again under Napoleon, and was employed by him in organizing defensive forces on the Rhine and on the Spanish frontier. He left the French army after the battle of Waterloo, and came to the United States in 1816. He studied law for some time, and wrote papers on military tactics. He was appointed 2d lieutenant of light artillery on 12 July, 1820, and was transferred to the 1st artillery on 1 June, 1821, but resigned on 31 Dec, 1826, and married a daughter of William Sampson. He published "L'Etat civil et politique de l'ltalie sous la domination des Goths v (Paris, 1813) ; " Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, written by Himself and continued by his Son : with his Political Writings, etc. ; edited bv his Son, William Theobald Wolfe Tone, with a Brief Account of his own Education and Campaigns under the Emperor Napoleon" (2 vols., Washington, 1826; London, 1827); and " School of Cavalry, or a System for Instruction, etc., proposed for the Cavalry of the United States " (Georgetown, D. C, 1824).