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Rh was one of seyen who cut their way through the British cavalry at Charleston, S. C, 6 May, 1780, and escaped. He commanded a rifle corps in the action with Col. Simcoe at Spencer's Ordinary, Va., 25 June, 1781, and at Jamestown, on 6 July, served under Gen. Lafayette. He was elected sur- veyor-general of Georgia in January, 1784. — Their nephew. Richard Keith, soldier, b. near Peters- burg, Va., in 1791 ; d. in Tallahassee, Fla., 14 Sept., 1862, was appointed first lieutenant in the 44th infantry, 15 July, 1814 ; brevet captain, 7 Nov., 1814; volunteer aide to Gen. Jackson in April, 1818 ; captain, July, 1818 ; and resigned, 1 May, 1823. He was a member of the legislative council of Florida in April, 1822; brigadier-general of west Forida militia in January, 1823 ; delegate to congress from 1823 till 1825 ; "and receiver of the west Florida land-office in March. 1825. Pie was governor of Florida from 1835 till 1840, and led the army against the Seminoles from 6 Dec, 1835, till 6 Dec, 1836, commanding in the second and third battles of Wahoo Swamp, 18 and 21 Nov., 1836. It is said that at the battle of Ouitlilacoo- chie Gov. Call personally saved Gen. Clinch and his command from being cut to pieces, contrary to the statement made by the latter in his history of the Florida war. A controversy with Joel R. Poinsett, secretary of war in Van Buren's cabinet, relative to the misdirection of the war, cost Gov. Call his office. He consequently turned whig, and worked earnestly for Harrison's election, canvass- ing the northern states in his behalf. President Harrison reappointed him governor of Florida in 1841, and he held the office till 1844, but was an un- successful candidate for the governorship in 1845, when the territory became a state. Although he had sacrificed fortune, health, and popularity to protect the citizens of Florida during the Seminole war, they could not forgive him for turning whig, and he never held political office again in Florida. But he was major-general of state militia from 1 July to 8 Dec, 1846. Gov. Call took great interest in the development of his state. He projected and built the third railroad in the United States, from Tallahassee to St. Marks, and also located the town of Port Leon, which was afterward destroyed by a cyclone. He always considered himself a Jackson democrat, as opposed to later democracy. Feeling that he had fought at Jackson's side for every inch of ground from Tennessee to the peninsula, he re- garded himself as one of the builders of the nation, and during the civil war was one of the few men in the south that looked on secession as treason. On 12 Feb., 1861, Gov. Call wrote a long letter to John S. Littell, of Pennsylvania, deploring secession, but defending slavery. — Gov. Call's nephew, Wilkinson, senator, b. in Russellville, Logan co., Ky., 9 Jan., 1834, went to Florida early in life, and be- came a lawyer. He was elected to the U. S. senate in December, 1865, but was not allowed to take his seat, owing to the subsequent passage of the recon- struction act. Pie was again chosen in 1879, and was re-elected for the term ending in March, 1891.

CALLEJA, Emilio, Spanish soldier, b. about 1830. He had served with distinction as an in- fantry officer when Santo Domingo was annexed to Spain. He made the whole campaign in that island as second in command of a battalion of ma- rine infantry, went to Porto Rico as lieutenant- colonel in 1867, reached the rank of colonel in 1869, and was sent to Cuba, where he fought for three years during the war against the separatists. He returned to Spain in 1873, was made a briga- dier-general, served under Ijopez Dominguez in the siege of Cartagena until the place was surren- dered, and then made the campaign against the Carlists, distinguishing himself in the battle of Minglanilla, soon after which he was promoted to the rank of a general of division. A few months later Calleja filled the office of second captain- general of Cuba, and was also military governor of several Cuban provinces. On his return to Spain he was promoted to the rank of a lieutenant- general, and, after being captain -general of Seville and Old Castile, again went to Cuba as governor- general of that island, in March, 1886. He has voluntarily reduced his own salary from $50,000 to 140,000, and made important reforms in the administration.

CALLEJA, Felix del Rey (kal-la'-ha), Count DE Calderon, Spanish general, b. in 1750; d. about 1821. After being treasurer of the council of the Indies in America, he commanded, in 1810, at San Luis Potosi, Mexico, when he was ordered to pursue the insurgent Hidalgo, who was advancing on the capital with a large native force. Easily de- feating him, he carried Guanajuato by assault, and on 12 Jan.. 1812, defeated and mortally wounded him at Guadalajara. He gained other advantages, but his cruelty caused the insurrection to become much more formidable ; and, under Father Morelos, another Mexican chief, the success was balanced be- tween the two parties. Calleja was made viceroy, 4 March, 1813 ; ordered Morelos, who had been made prisoner, to be shot, 22 Dec, 1815; was succeeded in his viceroyship in 1817, and, returning to Spain, was made a count. In 1819 he was given the com- mand of troops destined to act against the inde- pendents of Paraguay, but was taken prisoner by Riego, and confined in the isle of Leon, dying soon after recovering his libertv.

CALLENDER, Franklin Dyre, soldier, b. in New York in 1817; d. in Daysville, 111., 18 Dec, 1882. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1839, assigned to duty as brevet second lieutenant of ordnance, and in November of the same j'ear was promoted second lieutenant. Until 1840 he was on duty at Watervliet arsenal. New York, from 1840 till 1842 served in the Florida war, and was brevetted first lieutenant for " active and highly meritorious services against the Florida Indians." Returning to ordnance duty, he organ- ized a howitzer and rocket battery at F'ort Monroe in 1846, and commanded it at the siege of Vera Cruz in the war Avith Mexico, 1847. He was pro- moted first lieutenant, 3 March, 1847, participated in the succeeding campaigns, and was twice severely wounded at the battle of Contreras. For his con- duct during these campaigns he was brevetted cap- tain of ordnance. Pii 1853 he was promoted cap- tain of ordnance, having been on continuous dtity at different arsenals for fourteen years. During the civil war he was on foundry and general ord- nance duty, and was brevetted major in 1862, re- ceiving his promotion to the full grade, 3 March, 1863. PPe was engaged in the advance against Cor- inth, Miss., in April and May, 1863, and was after- ward chief of ordnance of the department of Mis- souri. In 1865 he received successive brevets to include the grade of brevet brigadier-general, and was promoted to the full grades of lieutenant- colonel, 6 April. 1866, and colonel of ordnance, 23 June, 1874. He was retired, 29 May, 1879.

CALLENDER, James Thomas, political writer, b. in Scotland ; drowned in James river, near Richmond, Va., in 1813. His American career began after 1790, when he came to Philadelphia as a political refugee from England, his offence being the publication of a pamphlet entitled "The Political Progress of Britain" (Edinburgh, 1792).