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350 raander, 9 Sept., 1853. He was appointed to com- mand the Potomac flotilla in May, 1861, and im- mediately essayed to open that river and silence the Confederate batteries on its banks. His flo- tilla consisted of three small improvised gun-boats, the steamer " Freeborn," " Anacostia," and " Reso- lute." He attacked and silenced the batteries at Acquia creek, 20 May, 1861, the first time the navy engaged the Confederate batteries during the war. The next day the battle was renewed, and Ward's flotilla was re-enforced by the arrival of the " Paw- nee " under Commander Stephen C. Rowan. Ward conducted a series of fights with his flotilla, and succeeded in clearing the banks and keeping the river open. On 27 June, 1861, he planned a land- ing expedition at Matthias point, and in the bom- bardment of the batteries he was killed while sighting a gun. He was the author of " Ele- mentary Course of Instruction in Naval Ordnance and Gunnery " (Philadelphia, 1851) ; " Manual of Naval Tactics " (New York, 1859) ; and li Steam for the Million" (1860). The first two were used as a text-book at the United States naval academy for many years.

WARD, John Elliott, lawyer, b. in Sunbury, Liberty co., Ga., 2 Oct., 1814. He entered Amherst in 1831, but left on account of the indignation that was manifested toward Georgians after the im- {)risonment of two Cherokee missionaries, studied aw in Savannah, Ga., and was admitted to the bar in 1835. He attended the lectures in the Harvard law-school before beginning practice, and on his return to Savannah was appointed, in January, 1836, solicitor-general for the eastern district of his state, to fill an unexpired term, at the close of which the legislature continued him in the office. He was appointed U. S. district attorney for Georgia in 1838, but resigned in the following year in order to enter the state legislature. He returned to the house in 1845 and in 1853, when he was chosen speaker, and in 1854 was elected mayor of Savannah. In 1856 he presided over the Democratic national convention that met in Cin- cinnati. In 1857 he entered the state senate, and was chosen its president and acting lieutenant- governor of the state, resigning in 1858 on being appointed U. S. minister to China. He departed for his post in January, 1859, and remained till April, 1861, when he returned and resigned in consequence of the adoption by Georgia of the ordinance of secession, although he was strongly opposed to that measure. In January, 1866, he removed from Savannah to New York city, where he has since practised law.

WARD, John Henry Hohart, soldier, b. in New York city, 17 June, 1823. His grandfather, John, a soldier of the Revolution, and his father, James, who fought in the war of 1812, were both disabled by wounds that they received in the ser- vice. The son was educated at Trinity collegiate school, enlisted at the age of eighteen in the 7th U. S. infantry, and in four years rose through the several grades to that of sergeant-major. In the Mexican war he participated in the siege of Fort Brown, received wounds at Monterey, and was at the capture of Vera Cruz. He was assistant com- missary-general of the state of New York from 1851 till 1855, and commissary-general from 1855 till 1859. In the beginning of the civil war he re- cruited the 38th New York volunteers, was appoint- ed colonel of the regiment, and led it at Bull Run and in all the battles of the peninsula campaign, and subsequently at the second Bull Run and Chan- tilly. Being promoted brigadier-general of volun- teers on 4 Oct., 1862, he commanded a brigade in the 3d corps at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spottsylvania. On the third day at Gettysburg, where he was wounded, as also at Kelly's Ford and Wapping Heights, he was in temporary command of the di- vision. He was again wounded at Spottsylvania, and was frequently commended for courage and capacity, in official reports. After the war he en- gaged in a civil employment in New York city.

WARD, John Quincy Adams, sculptor,'b. in Urbana, Champaign co., Ohio, 29 June, 1830. At the age of nineteen he began to study with Henry K. Browne, with whom he remained until 1857, assisting him in many of his works. In 1857-'8 he was in Washington modelling busts of Joshua R. Giddings, Alexander H. Stephens, John P. Hale, Hannibal Hamlin, and other public men. At this time he also made his first sketch for the " Indian Hunter," and he subsequently visited the Indian country to make studies for this subject. In 1861 he opened a studio in New York, where he has since resided. He was elected an associate of the National academy the following year, and an academician in 1863. During this period he made many designs in wax for presentation swords, and executed in 1861 a bronze statuette, " The Freedman," his first full-length figure. It attracted much attention by its subject, and its merits as a work of art won for it the admiration of crit- ics. It was exhibit- ed, together with the " Indian Hun- ter," at the Paris ex- position of 1867, and has been repeated several times by the artist. The "Indian Hunter," completed in 1864 and now in the Central park, was his next work of importance. It won universal praise for its excellence in design and execution, and is among the best of his statues. (See illustration.) New York city possesses several other of his most important works. They are a colossal statue of a citizen soldier for the 7th regiment (1868) ; " Shakespeare " (1870-'l) ; a colossal statue of Washington, on the steps of the Sub-Treasurv building in Wall street (1882) ; " The Pilgrim" (1884); and a statue of William E. Dodge (1887). His other notable works are " The Good Samaritan," a group to commemorate the discovery of sulphuric ether as an .anaesthetic (1865), in Boston ; statues of Matthew C. Perrv, in Newport, R. I. (1866), Gen. John F. Reynolds, at Gettysburg, Pa. (1871), Israel Putnam, in Hartford, Conn. (1874), George Washington, in Newburyport, Mass. (1876), an equestrian statue of Gen. George H. Thomas, in Washington, D. C. (1878), Gen. Daniel Morgan, at Spartansburg, S. C, and Gen. Lafayette, in Burlington, Vt. (1880) ; and the monument to James A. Garfield, in Washington (1887). He is engaged on a large statue of Henry Ward Beecher for the city of Brooklyn. He has also executed various portrait busts, including, besides those already mentioned, Valentine Mott, James T. Brady, Dr. Orville Dewey, and Gov. William Dennison, of Ohio. Mr. Ward was vice-president of the National academv in 1870-1 and president in 1872.— His brother, Edgar Melville, artist, b. in Urbana, Ohio, 24 Feb., 1839, studied at the National academy in 1870-'l, and under Alexandre