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Rh land-suits. For many years he was a member of the Delaware assembly, and he took an active part in the Revolutionary contest. In 1776 he was ap- pointed the first chief justice of Delaware, and held that office till 1793, when he was made chan- cellor. In 1801 he retired from the bench.

KILPATRICK, Hugh Judson, soldier, b. near Deckertown, N. J., 14 Jan., 1836 ; d. in Valpa- raiso, Chili, 4 Dec, 1881. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1861, was appointed a captain of volunteers on 9 May, promoted 1st lieutenant of artillery in the regular army on 14 May, 1861, and was wounded at Big Bethel and disabled for several months. In August, 1861, he assisted in raising a regiment of New York cavalry, of which he was made lieutenant - colonel. He went to Kansas in January, 1862, in order to accom- Eany Gen. James H. lane's expedition to Texas as chief of artillery. On the abandonment of the expedition he rejoined his regi- ment in Virginia, and was engaged in skirmishes near Falmouth, the movement to Thoroughfare Gap, raids on the Vir- ginia Central railroad in July, 1862, various skir- mishes in the northern Virginia campaign, and the second battle of Bull Run. In an expedition to Leesburg on 19 Sept., 1862, he commanded the cavalry brigade. After several months of absence on recruiting service, during which he became colonel, he returned to the field, and commanded a brigade of cavalry in the Rappahannock cam- paign, being engaged in Stoneman's raid toward Richmond, and in the combat at Beverly Ford. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers on 13 June, 1863, and commanded a cavalry divis- ion in the latter part of the Pennsylvania cam- paign. He was in command at the battle of Aldie, and was brevetted for bravery on that occasion. He took part in the battle of Gettysburg, earning there the brevet of lieutenant-colonel in the U. S. army, and in the subsequent pursuit of the enemy was engaged in constant fighting at Smithsburg, Hagerstown, Boonsborough, and Falling Waters. In the operations in central Virginia, from August till November, 1863, he commanded a cavalry divis- ion, and took part in an expedition to destroy the enemy's gunboats " Satellite " and " Reliance " in Rappahannock river, the action at Culpeper on 13 Sept., and the subsequent skirmish at Somerville Ford, the fights at James City and Brandy Station, and in the movement to Centreville and the action of 19 Oct. at Gainsville. In March, 1864, he was engaged in a raid toward Richmond and through the peninsula, in which he destroyed much prop- erty and had many encounters with the enemy, be- f inning with the action at Ashland on 1 March. In [ay, 1864, he took part in the invasion of Georgia as commander of a cavalry division of the Army of the Cumberland, and was engaged in the action at Ringgold and in the operations around Dalton until, on 13 May, he was severely wounded at the battle of Resaca. His injuries kept him out of the field till the latter part of July, when he returned to Georgia, and was engaged in guarding the com- munications of General Sherman's army, and in making raids, which were attended with much severe fighting. He displayed such zeal and con- fidence in destroying the railroad at Fairburn that Sherman suspended a general movement of the army to enable him to break up the Macon road, in the hope of thus forcing Hood to evacuate At- lanta. Kilpatrick set out on the night of 18 Aug., 1864, and returned on the 22d with prisoners and a captured gun and battle-flags, having made the circuit of Atlanta, torn up three miles of railroad at Jonesborough, and encountered a division of infantry and a brigade of cavalry. In the march to the sea he participated in skirmishes at Walnut Creek, Sylvan Grove, Rocky Creek, and Waynes- borough. In the invasion of the Carolinas his di- vision was engaged at Salkehatchie, S. C, on 3 Feb., 1865, near Aiken on 11 Feb., at Monroe's Cross Roads, N. G, on 10 March, near Raleigh on 12 April, at Morristown on 13 April, and in other ac- tions and skirmishes. He was brevetted colonel for braverv at Resaca. promoted captain in the 1st artillery oh 30 Nov., 1864, and on 13 March, 1865, received the brevet of brigadier-general for the capture of Fayetteville, N. C, and that of major- general for services throughout the Carolina cam- paign. He commanded a division of the cavalry corps in the military division of Mississippi from April to June, 1865, was promoted major-general of volunteers on 18 June, 1865, and resigned his volunteer commission on 1 Jan., 1866. lie was a popular general, inspiring confidence in the soldiers under his command, and gained a high reputation as a daring, brilliant, and successful cavalry leader. He resigned his commission in the regular army in 1867. In 1865 he had been appointed minister to Chili by President Johnson, and he was continued in that office by President Grant, but was recalled in 1868. He then devoted himself chiefly to lec- turing, and took an active interest in politics as an effective platform speaker on the Republican side. In 1872 he supported Horace Greeley, but returned to his former party in 1876, and in 1880 was an unsuccessful candidate for congress in New Jersey. In March, 1881, President Garfield appointed him again to the post of minister to Chili. During his last diplomatic mission he had a conflict with Stephen A. Hurlbut, U. S. minister to Peru, and disregarded Sec. Blaine's instructions to interfere in behalf of the Calderon government in the latter country. His remains were brought from Chili for burial "in West Point, N. Y., in October, 1887. See "Kilpatrick and our Cavalry," by John Moore (New York, 1865).

KILTY, Augustus Henry, naval officer, b. in Annapolis, Md., 25 Nov., 1807; d. in Baltimore, 10 Nov., 1879. He was appointed a midshipman in 1821, served on the " Franklin " and the " Constitution," became a passed midshipman on 28 April, 1832, was in the West Indies for the next three years, and then on shore duty till he was commissioned lieutenant on 6 Sept., 1837. Afterward he was sent to the East Indies. He also served in the Mediterranean, in Brazil, and on the coast of Africa, was commissioned commander on 14 Sept., 1855, and in 1861 was ordered to St. Louis to organize the Mississippi flotilla. He commanded the gun-boat " Mound City " at Island No. 10 and at Fort Pillow, where his vessel was sunk, but was afterward raised and repaired. In June, 1862, he commanded an expedition to White river, Ark., and on 17 June he attacked and captured Fort St. Charles with the support of a land force. Near the close of this action he lost over one hundred