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516 for whom he professed great attachment. They soon found, however, that he was active in fomenting insurrectionary movements favorable to the crown among the border population and the red men, and the popular indignation against him increased daily. After he saw that preparations for resistance were going on steadily, and that the public military stores had been secured by the pa- triots, he took refuge on board a British man-of- war, where he was joined by his wife. In this ves- sel he threatened the city of Charleston, but the guns of Fort Johnson forced him to retreat. After sailing to Jamaica, he returned in the following year, and was mortally wounded on board the " Bristol " during the attack on Fort Moultrie.

CAMPBELL, William, soldier, b. in Augusta county, Va., in 1745 ; d. at Rocky Mills, Hanover CO., Va., 22 Aug., 1781. After his father's death in 1767 he removed with his mother and four sisters to the Holston valley. In 1773 he was appointed a justice of the peace, and in 1774 a captain of mili- tia. He served in Col. Christian's regiment in the campaign against the Shawnees, which terminated in Lord Dunmore's treaty of peace at Camp Char- lotte. In September, 1775, he led a fine company to Williamsburg, joining Patrick Henry's regi- ment. Under Gen. Lewis he assisted in dislodging Gov. Dunmore from Gwyn's island in July, 1776, and at the close of the year resigned, so that he might better protect his frontier home from the encroachments of the Cherokees. In 1777 he was continued a justice of the peace in the newly formed county of Washington, and made lieuten- ant-colonel of the militia. He was one of the commissioners in 1778 to run the boundary-line between Virginia and the Cherokee country. In 1779 he aided in driving the tories from his region, having a severe personal rencounter with one of their leaders, Francis Hopkins, in the bed of the Holston ; the miscreant was overcome, and hanged with his own halter on the nearest sycamore. Campbell was promoted in 1780 to the full colonelcy of the regiment, and chosen a member of the legislature. After scouring the neighboring country in North Carolina, routing and dispersing the tories, he led his regiment of riflemen in the King's Mountain campaign, and distinguished himself by his valor and good conduct, if the evi- dence of his own officers and soldiers is to be cred- ited. Washington, Gates, and Greene, together with the Virginia legislature and the continental congress, expressed their high sense of his merits and services. After serving on the frontiers, he responded to Gen. Greene's appeal, and joined him with a corps of riflemen, sharing in the battle of Guilford Court-House, in March, 1781, where he thought he was not properly supported by Lee's cavalry, and soon afterward retired from the ser- vice. After a term in the legislature he was made a brigadier-general in the militia, and served un- der Lafayette in the battle of Jamestown, and shortly afterward sickened and died. Lafayette asserted that his services at King's Mountain and Guilford would " do his memory everlasting honor, and insure hira a high rank among the defenders of liberty in the American cause " ; and Jefl'erson feelingly declared that " Gen. Campbell's friends might quietly rest their heads on the pillow of his renown." His wife was a sister of Patrick Henry. — His nephew, John B., soldier, b. in Kentucky ; d. 28 Aug., 1814, was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the 19th infantry, 12 March, 1812, and com- manded a detachment against the Mississinewa Indians in December, 1812, for which service he was brevetted colonel. He was made colonel of the 11th infantry on 9 April, 1814, and distin- guished himself in the battle of Chippewa, 5 July, 1814, where he commanded the right wing of the army under Scott, and received fatal wounds.

CAMPBELL, Sir William, Canadian jurist, b. in Scotland in 1758; d. in Toronto in 1834. He entered the army as a private, came to America as a non-commissioned officer in a Highland regiment, and took part in the revolutionary war, his military career ending with the surrender of Cornwallis in 1781, when he became a prisoner with the rest of the command. Having regained his freedom, in 1783 he removed to Nova Scotia and devoted him- self to the study of law. After practising for nine- teen years, he was appointed attorney-general of Cape Breton, and elected to the assembly of that province. He was promoted to a puisne judge- ship in Upper Canada, and became chief justice upon the retirement of William Dummer Powell in 1825. In 1829 he retired in consequence of fail- ing health, and was succeeded by the attorney-gen- eral at that time, afterward Sir John Beverley Robinson, bart. On the occasion of his retirement he was knighted.

CAMPBELL, William Boiven, governor of Tennessee, b. in Sumner county, Tenn., 1 Feb., 1807 ; d. in Lebanon, Tenn., 19 Aug., 1867. He studied law in Abingdon and W^inchester, Va., was admit- ted to the bar in Tennessee, and practised in Car- thage. He was chosen district attorney for the fourth district of his state in 1831, and "became a member of the legislature in 1835. He raised a cavalry company, and served as its captain in the Creek and Florida wars of 1836, and from 1837 till 1843 was a whig member of congress from Tennes- see. He was elected major-general of militia in 1844, and served in the Mexican war as colonel of the 1st Tennessee volunteers, distinguishing him- self in the battles of Monterey and Cerro Gordo, where he commanded a brigade after Gen. Pillow was wounded. He was governor of Tennessee in 1851-'3, and in 1857 was chosen, by unanimous vote of the legislature, judge of the state circuit court. He canvassed the state in opposition to secession in 1861, and on 30 June, 1862, without solicitation, was appointed by President Lincoln brigadier-general in the National army. He re- signed, 26 Jan., 1863, on account of failing health. At the close of the war he was again chosen to con- gress, but was not allowed to take his seat until near the end of the first session in 1866. He served until 3 March, 1867, and was a member of the com- mittee on the New Orleans riots.

CAMPBELL, William Henry, educator, b. in Baltimore, Md., 14 Sept., 1808 ; d. in NewBrunswick, N. J., 7 Dec, 1890. He was graduated at Princeton theological seminary in 1831, ordained by the Reformed Dutch classis of Cayuga on 1 Sept., 1831, was pastor of the Reformed church in Chittenango, N. Y., in 1831-2, principal of Erasmus Hall, Flatbush, L. I., in 1833-'9, held several other charges, and was professor of oriental literature in the Reformed Dutch theological seminary. New Brunswick, N. J., in 1851-'63, of moral philosophy at Rutgers in 1862-'3, and president of Rutgers in 1863-'82. During his administration more than $200,000 was raised for the college, six new professorships established, the number of pupils doubled, and several fine buildings erected. His pitblications include, besides numerous addresses, "Subjects and Modes of Baptism" (1844); "Influence of Christianity in Civil and Religious Liberty" (Proceedings of the Evangelical Alliance, 1873); and " System of Catechetical Instruction " (Reformed church centennial discourses, 1876).