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Rh 1874 she made her appearance as a public reader. She rendered much service in behalf of the Mount Vernon association. She was opposed to secession, but remained in Mobile, and rendered service to the soldiers during the entire war, after which she visited Washington to ask pardon for her friend Gen. Beauregard. Lamartine advised her to prepare a book of her travels, which was written in the form of letters to her mother, and entitled &ldquo;Souvenirs of Travel&rdquo; (Mobile, 1858; 2d ed., New York, 1866). She also wrote &ldquo;Souvenirs of Distinguished People&rdquo; and &ldquo;Souvenirs of the War,&rdquo; which were never published.

LEVIN, Lewis C., politician, b. in Charleston, S. C, 10 Nov., 1808 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 14 March, 1860. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised successively in Maryland, Louisi- ana, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, finally settling in Philadelphia. He was chosen to congress as a native American, and twice re-elected, serving from 1 Dec, 1845, till 3 March, 1851. He is said to have founded the Native American party, had much in- fluence in its conventions, and was conspicuous as a platform speaker and writer for the public press.

LEVINGS, Noah, clergyman, b. in Cheshire county, N. H., 29 Sept., 1796 : d. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 9 Jan., 1849. He was early apprenticed to a blacksmith in Troy, N. Y., to which place his parents had removed, but was licensed as a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal church in 1818, and subsequently stationed among other places in New- York city, Brooklyn, Troy, and Albany, N. Y., and New Haven, Conn. In 1844 he was elected financial secretary of the American Bible society. During his eighteen pastoral appointments, Dr. Levings is said to have preached nearly 4,000 ser- mons, delivered sixty-five addresses and orations, and to have travelled 36,500 miles. He also de- livered 275 addresses for the American Bible so- ciety. He had supplied the want of early edu- cation by severe private study. As a platform speaker it was supposed that he had no superior in his denomination.

LEVIS, Francois Gaston, Due de, French soldier, b. at the Chateau d'Aniac, Languedoc, 23 Aug., 1720; d. in Languedoc, France, in 1787. He entered the French army in 1735, and was second in command under Gen. Montcalm at the capture of Quebec by the British. He led the right division of the French army at the battle of Carillon, and was also at Montmorency, where the British were repelled in their endeavors to gain the fortified camp that covered Quebec. At the first battle of Quebec, which resulted in the death of Montcalm and the loss of that city, Levis was in Montreal. He succeeded his superior in the com- mand of the French forces, and in the engagement near St. Foy he gained a victory over the British under Murray. After this action he remained in the vicinity of Quebec until spring, when the ar- rival of British re-enforcements caused him to re- treat to Montreal. The capitulation by Yaudreuil caused his return to France, where he was soon actively engaged in the army, being promoted to lieutenant-general. He was present at the battle of Johannisburg, where the French, under Conde, gained a victory over the army of Prince Ferdinand. In 1783 he was created a French marshal. and in 1784 a duke and a peer of France.

LEVY, Uriah Phillips, naval officer, b. in Pennsylvania about 1795; d. in New York city. 22 March, 1862. He entered the U. S. navy in 1812, and was an officer of the brig " Argus," which, escaping the blockade, took out William H. Craw- ford as minister to France, and destroyed in the English channel twenty-one vessels, one of which had a cargo worth $625,000. On the capture of the "Argus" he was made prisoner and retained for two years. He became lieutenant on 5 March, 1817, commander, 9 Feb., 1837, and captain, 29 March, 1844. His last cruise was in 1858, as flag- officer of the Mediterranean squadron. He was ac- tive in the movement to abolish flogging in the navy. He became the owner of " Monticello," the home of Thomas Jefferson, of whom he was an ardent admirer, and this valuable estate, with his stock, dwellings, pictures, etc., was confiscated dur- ing the civil war by the Confederates, in conse- quence of Levy's sympathies with the National government. He published a " Manual of Internal Rules and Regulations for Men-of-War " (3d ed., New York, 1861).

LEWIN, Raphael De Cordova, b. in the West Indies in 1844; d. in New York city, 26 June, 1886. After studying in London, he came to the United States, and had charge of Hebrew congre- gations in Shreveport, La., Savannah, Ga., and Brooklyn, N. Y. He published a monthly, " The New Era.*' a weekly, "The Jewish Advocate," and a work entitled " What is Judaism!" (New York, 1870).

LEWIS, Alonzo, poet, b. in Lynn, Mass., 28 Aug., 1794; d. there, 21 Jan., 1861. He was edu- cated at the school and academy of his native town, where he became a teacher. For many years he was a justice of the peace, and also a civil engineer. He edited a newspaper, constructed a map and directory of the town, and wrote several poems, whose subjects were drawn from ocean scenery and Indian legends. He was known as "The Lynn Hard," and Nathaniel P. Willis said : " He is a poet in all his lookings, doings, sayings, and dream- ings." He was the author of " Forest Flowers and Sea-Shells," which went through ten editions (Bos- ton, 1831), and " History of Lynn" (1829; 2d ed.. including Nahant, 1844"; new* ed., with additions by James R. Newhall, Boston, 1865).

LEWIS, Andrew, soldier, b. in Donegal, Ireland, about 1720: d. in Bedford county, Va., 26 Sept., 1781. His father, John Lewis, of Huguenot descent, killed his landlord in resisting an illegal attempt to eject him from his possessions, and came to this country in 1732. settling in Bellefonte, Augusta co., Va., of which he was the first white resident. Andrew, with his brothers, early became conspicuous in the frontier struggles, and volunteered in the expedition to take possession of the Ohio region in 1754. He was a major in Washington's Virginia regiment, and highly esteemed by the latter for his courage and skill. He was with Washington at the surrender of Fort Necessity, and, according to some authorities, at Braddock's defeat in 1755. He commanded the Sandy creek expedition in 1756. and was made prisoner in that of Maj. James Grant to Fort Duquesne in 1758, and taken to Montreal. In 1768 he was a commissioner from Virginia to conclude a treaty with the Six Nations at Fort Stanwix, N. Y. In 1774, when hostilities had begun again on the western frontier of Virginia, he received the appointment of brigadier- general, and as commander-in-chief at the battle of Point Pleasant, at the mouth of Great Kanawha river, gained a victory over the Shawnee confederacy under the celebrated " Cornstalk " in what was probably the most severe engagement with the Indians that had taken place in this country up to that period. He was a member of the house of burgesses for several years, and a delegate to the Virginia conventions of May and June, 1775. When Washington was appointed commander-in-