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Rh May, 1861. On 9 Oct. he was engaged in repelling the Confederate attack on Santa Rosa island, Fla., during which he was captured. After his release in August, 1862, he served on the staff of Gen. John F. Reynolds in the Maryland campaign of that year. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in the following November, and was in command of Folly island, S. C, from April till July, 1863, when he took part in the construction of the batteries on Lighthouse inlet for the pro- posed attack on Morris island. He took part in that engagement, and also in the one on Folly island. From August, 1863, till July, 1864, he was occupied in the operations against Fort Sumter and the city of Charleston. On 1 June, 1864, he was made lieutenant-colonel, and on 1 Aug. he became colonel. After seeing further service in Florida, he had charge of the defences of Nor- folk and Portsmouth, Va., from May, 1864, till April, 1865, in which month he was brevetted briga- dier-general in the regular army for gallant and meritorious services in the field during the civil war. On 15 Jan., 1866, he was mustered out of the volunteer service, and from that date until 2 Jan., 1881, when he was retired at his own request, after forty-three years of active service, he was in com- mand of the 1st regiment of artillery.

VOGUÉ, Jean Pierre de, Flemish adventurer, b. in Malines in 1570; d. in Brazil in 1630. He was a captain in the Spanish army when, hearing the fabulous description of the country of the Esmeraldas, he went to Espiritu Santo, in Brazil, and succeeded to the command of the colony that had been founded there. The establishment soon dissolved, as the adventurers were only anxious for riches; and Vogué, having announced that he knew the location of the Mountain of Wealth, was soon at the head of a host, and led an expedition to the interior of the Mamalucos country, wandering for several years through central and south Brazil, and suffering many misfortunes. His confidence in ultimate success was never shaken, but he was abandoned by his followers, and fell at last into the hands of the Charcas Indians. It is supposed that he died during his captivity, although the &ldquo;Colleccão de alguns manuscriptos curiosos&rdquo; credits to him the work &ldquo;Jornada por el descobrimento de las Serras Esmeraldas&rdquo; (Seville, 1690).

VOGUE, Jean Pierre de, Flemish adventurer. b. in Malines in 1570 ; d. in Brazil in 1630. He was a captain in the Spanish army when, hearing the fabulous description of the country of the Es- meraldas, he went to Espiritu Santo, in Brazil, and succeeded to the command of the colony that had been founded there. The establish- ment soon dissolved, as the adventurers were only anxious for riches ; and Vogue, having announced that he knew the location of the Mountain of Wealth, was soon at the head of a host, and led an expedition to the interior of the Mamalucos country, wandering for several years through cen- tral and south Brazil, and suffering many mis- fortunes. His confidence in ultimate success was never shaken, but he was abandoned by his follow- ers, and fell at last into the hands of the Charcas Indians. It is supposed that he died during his captivity, although the " Colleccao de alguns manu- scriptos curiosos " credits to him the work " Jor- nada por el descobrimento de las Serras Esme- raldas " (Seville, 1690).

VOISIN, Charles Antoine (vwah-zang), Span- ish missionary, b. in Charlevoix, Belgium, in 1698 ; d. in Panama in 1764. He early became a Jesuit, and was attached to the South American missions, laboring in Venezuela, Central America, Peru, and Chili. In 1749 he was rector of the College of Quito, and later he was superior of the Convent of Panama. His works include " Antigiiedades del Peru" (Anvers, 1762); "Information a la Real Audiencia de Quito sobre el descubrimiento de muchos y grandes rios, e infinitas naciones barbaras aue los tiabitan " (2 vols., 1764) ; and " Propagation el Evangelio en la America meridional" (1766).

VOISIN, Pierre Joseph, French naturalist, b. in Toulouse, Languedoc, in 1759 ; d. in Cayenne, Guiana, in 1821. He early entered the colonial service, and was assistant treasurer of Guiana in 1792, when he was ordered to France to answer for his administration before the convention, but he went instead to Dutch Guiana, and began farming on Essequibo river. Later he removed to Parama- ribo, and was commissioned to survey the south- eastern counties of the colony, where he experi- enced difficulties of all kinds, being once detained as hostage by marroon negroes. After the sur- render of French Guiana to the Portuguese he re- turned to Cayenne in 1812, and was employed in the central administration till he was pensioned in 1818. His works include " Statistique des parties basses de la Guiane Hollandaise, suivie d'un releve du cours du fleuve Essequibo " (2 vols., Demerara, 1806) ; " Petite histoire naturelle pittoresque de la Guiane Francaise " (1808) ; " Traite des legumi- neuses de la Guiane Hollandaise " (1810) : and " Monographic de la Goyave " (Cayenne, 1814).

VOITURE, Nicolas Auguste (vwah-tewr), South American explorer, b. in Santiago, Chili, about 1764 ; d. in Lima, Peru, in 1821. He was the son of a French merchant of Santiago, received his early education in Chili, and finished his studies in Paris, where he was a journalist during the revo- lution, but in 1794, after the fall of the Girondists, returned to South America. Inheriting an inde- pendent fortune by the death of his father, he be- gan to travel, and at the suggestion of a German hunter, who had travelled through Patagonia and could speak some of the Indian dialects, resolved to visit that country. He left Montevideo in De- cember, 1801, but, after frequent landings on the desolate coast of Patagonia, abandoned his idea of visiting the interior. He made valuable nautical observations on the coast and at the entrance to the Strait of Magellan, visited Tierra del Fuego, doubled Cape Horn, and anchored at Valparaiso in October, 1803. Soon afterward he removed to Lima, and devoted his later years to literature and science. He published " Ensayo sobre el arte de navegar " (Lima, 1809) ; " Journal d'un voyage aux cotes de Patagonie, dans le detroit de Magellan, a la Terre de Feu, et a la cote de Chili " (3 vols., Paris, 1812) ; " Ensayo sobre la Patagonia " (Lima, 1814); and "Histoire litteraire de l'Amerique du Sud " (2 vols., Paris, 1818).

VOLK, Leonard Wells, sculptor, b. in Wellstown (now Wells), Hamilton co., N. Y., 7 Nov., 1828. At the age of sixteen he began the trade of marble-cutting in his father's shop at Pittsfield, Mass. In 1848 he went to St. Louis, Mo., and in the following year he undertook modelling in clay and drawing without instructors. He was subsequently engaged in business. In 1855 Stephen A. Douglas, who was his wife's cousin, aided him to go to Italy for study. Volk remained there until 1857, when he settled in Chicago. His first sitter for a portrait-bust — the first that was ever modelled in that city — was his patron, and he subsequently, in 1858, made a life-size statue of Mr. Douglas in marble. In 1860 he executed a portrait-bust of Abraham Lincoln, the original marble of which was burnt in the Historical society building during the great fire of 1871. He revisited Italy for study in 1868-9 and 1871-2. He was elected an academician of the Chicago academy in 1867, and was for eight years its president. His principal works are the Douglas monument in Chicago, several soldiers' monuments, the statuary for the Henry Keep mausoleum at Watertown, N. Y., life-size statues of Lincoln and Douglas in the state-