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310 navy, and in May, 1842, he received a wound in a duel which incapacitated him from service for eleven months and lamed him for life. He did good service in the war with Mexico, was gradu- ated at the naval academy at Annapolis in 1847, and while on a cruise on the Brazilian station in September, 1855, was promoted from passed mid- shipman to 2d lieutenant and navigator of the " Germantown." He was detached and served on the store-ship " Release " at Aspinwall during the building of the Panama railroad, where he con- tracted the yellow fever. The ship went to sea and day by day the officers and crew were stricken down by the disease, until Lieut. Waddell was the only officer left to command her with a few convales- cent seamen. The vessel finally reached Boston. He afterward was on duty at the naval academy, as assistant professor of navigation, until 11 July, 1859. In the spring of 1860 he sailed in the " Sagi- naw " for the China station, where he led a suc- cessful expedition. On 20 Nov., 1861, he forwarded his resignation to the secretary of the navy, but on 11 Jan., 1862, when he arrived in New York, he was offered a command in the U. S. bomb-fleet, then being fitted out for an attack on New Orleans, which he declined. In February, 1862, he ran the blockade from Annapolis to Richmond, where he entered the Confederate navy, his commission as lieutenant being dated 27 March, 1862. He was assigned to duty on board the ram " Louisiana " at New Orleans, and when the Confederate fleet at that port was dispersed by Farragut, Lieut. Wad- dell was sent back to destroy the " Louisiana," which he did by blowing her up. He then served at Drewry's Bluff, on James river, as ordnance of- ficer, and afterward at Charleston, S. C, and sub- sequently was ordered to England to take com- mand of one of the cruisers that was fitting out at Liverpool. He arrived there in May, 1863, and on 5 Oct., 1864, was ordered to the command of the '•Shenandoah" for a cruise in the Pacific ocean. She was originally a British merchant steamer. The " Shenandoah was commissioned off Madeira, 19 Oct., 1864, and steered for Australia. Before arriving at Melbourne, 25 Jan., 1865, Commander Waddell made nine captures. The " Shenandoah " left that port, 8 Feb., 1865, and in three months be- gan her destructive work among the whalers in the Okhotsk sea, Bering sea, and the Arctic ocean. Long after the fall of the Confederate government he captured and sank or burned vessels until 2 Aug., 1865, more than three months after the surrender of Gen. Lee, when he met with the Brit- ish bark " Barracouta," from whose captain he heard of the close of the war. After this he stowed away his guns in the hold and at once sailed for Liverpool, where he surrendered the ship to the British government. He and his crew were lib- erated, and on 10 Nov., 1865, the " Shenandoah " was delivered to the U. S. consul at Liverpool. The sultan of Zanzibar afterward bought her, and several years later she went down in a gale with all on board. The " Shenandoah," while under Com- mander Waddell, captured thirty-eight vessels, of which she released six on bond and destroyed thirty-two. She was the only vessel that carried the flag of the Confederacy around the world. After the release of Waddell he remained in Liver- pool, and then went to Paris to reside. He after- ward returned to the United States, and in 1875 was made commander of the " San Francisco," of the Pacific mail line between Yokohama and San Francisco. On 16 Mav, 1877, his steamer struck on a rock and sank. All the passengers were saved, and the captain was the last to leave the ship.

WADDELL, Moses, clergyman, b. in Rowan county, N. C, 29 July, 1770 ; d. in Athens, Ga., 21 July, 1840. His father, William, emigrated from the vicinity of Belfast, Ireland, about 1764, settling in Charleston, S. C, and subsequently in North Carolina. Moses taught to obtain means to enter college, was graduated at Hampden Sidney in 1791, and ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church, and subsequently taught in South Caro- lina. He established a classical school in Willing- ton, S. C, in 1804, where among his pupils were Hugh S. Legare, John C. Calhoun, and James L. Petigru. In 1819-'29 he was president of the Uni- versity of Georgia. The College of South Caro- lina gave him the degree of D. D. in 1807. As an instructor of youth, Dr. Waddell was one of the most popular and successful men of his day. Alex- ander H. Stephens says of him : " In his insight into the character of boys, the constitution of their minds, their capacities and aptitudes, and in draw- ing out and developing their faculties by proper training, discipline, and government, he had few, if any, superiors in the United States." He pub- lished " Memoirs of Miss Catherine Elizabeth Smelt " (Augusta, Ga., 1819). — His first wife, Cath- erine, was a sister of John C. Calhoun, and his second wife was Elizabeth W. Pleasants, of Virginia. — Their son, James Pleasants, educator, b. in Willington, S. C., 5 Jan., 1801 ; d. in Athens, Ga., 28 May, 1867, was graduated at the University of Georgia in 1822, became principal of Richmond academy, taught belles-lettres and oratory in the Universitv of Georgia in 1836-'40, and at the same time filled the chairs of Latin and Greek, which he held till 1856. — Another son, John Newton, edu- cator, b. in Willington, S. C, 2 April, 1812, was graduated at the University of Georgia in 1829, entered the ministry of the Presbyterian church in 1841, was professor of Latin and Greek in the University of Mississippi in 1848-'57, and from the latter date till 1860 occupied a similar chair in La Grange college, Tenn. He was then president of that institution till 1862, when, the town being occupied by the National army, the college was disbanded, and he became general superintendent of Presbyterian missions in the Western Confed- erate army, and was chiefly instrumental in found- ing the asylum for the orphans of Confederate soldiers in Tuskegee, Ala. In 1865-'74 he was chancellor of the University of Mississippi, and in 1879-'88 he occupied the same post in the South- western Presbyterian university, Clarksville, Tenn. The University of Nashville gave him the degree of D. D. in 1851, and the University of Georgia that of LL. D. in 1873. Since 1874 he has been secretary of the board of ministerial education of the Southern Presbyterian church.

WADE, Benjamin Franklin, senator, b. in Feeding Hills, near Springfield, Mass., 27 Oct., 1800 ; d. in Jefferson, Ohio, 2 March, 1878. His ancestor, Jonathan, came from Norfolk, England, to Massachusetts in 1632. His father, James, a soldier of the Revolution, removed to Andover, Ohio, in 1821. The son's education was received chiefly from his mother. He shared in the pioneer work of his new home, and in 1823, after aiding in driving a herd of cattle to Philadelphia, went to Albany, N. Y., where he spent two years in teaching, also beginning the study of medicine with his brother, and at one time working as a common laborer on the Erie canal to obtain funds. On his return to Ohio he began the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1827, and began practice in Jefferson. He formed a partnership with Joshua R. Giddings in 1831, and in 1835 was elected