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Rh treme right in the battle of Pea Ridge, where three horses were shot under him, and, though severely wounded in the side, kept the field till the final rout of the enemy. For his gallantry on this oc- casion he was made brigadier-general of volunteers on 31 March, 1862. In June of tluit year he took command of the district of the ]Mississi]i[)i, and su- perintended the construction of the Mississippi and Ohio railroad. Gen. Dodge was one of the first to organize colored regiments. During the Vicksburg campaign, with headquarters at Corinth, he made frequent raids, and indirectly protected the flanks of both Grant and Roseerans, being afterward placed by Grant at the head of his list of officers for promotion. He distinguished himself at Sugar Valley, 9 May, 1864, and Resaca, 14 and 15 May, and for his services in these two battles was promoted to major-general of volunteers on 7 June, 1864. He led the 16th corps in Sherman's Georgia campaign, distinguished himself at At- lanta on 23 July, where, with eleven regiments, he withstood a whole army corps, and at the siege of that city, on 19 Aug., was sevei'ely wounded and incapacitated for active service for some time. In December, 1864, he succeeded Gen. Roseerans in the command of the department of Missouri. That of Kansas and the territories was added in Febru- ary, 1865, and he carried on in that year a success- ful campaign against hostile Indians. In 1866 he resigned from the army to become chief engineer of the Union Pacific railroad, which was built under his supervision. He resigned in 1869 to accept a similar place in the Texas Pacific railroad, and since then has been constantly employed in building railroads in the United States and Mexi- co. He has been for many years a director of the Union Pacific railroad. Gen. Dodge was elected to congress from Iowa as a Republican during his absence from the state, and served one term in 1867-'9, declining a re-nomination. He was also a delegate to the Chicago republican convention of 1868 and the Cincinnati convention of 1876.

DODGE, Henry, soldier, b. in Vincennes, Ind., 12 Oct., 1782; d. in Burlington, Iowa, 19 June, 1867. His father, Israel Dodge, was a revolution- ary officer of Connecticut. Henry commanded a mounted company of volunteer riflemen in August and September, 1812, became major of Louisiana militia under Gen. Howard on 28 Sept., major in McNair's regiment of Missouri militia in April, 1813, and commanded a battalion of Missouri mounted infantry, as lieutenant-colonel, from Au- gust till October, 1814. He was colonel of Michi- gan volunteers from April till July, 1832, during the Black Hawk war, and in the affair with the Indians at Piekatolika, on Wisconsin river, 15 June, totally defeating them. He was commis- sioned major of U. S. rangers, 21 June, 1832, and became the first colonel of the 1st dragoons, 4 March, 1833. He was successful in making peace with the frontier Indians in 1834, and in 1835 commanded an important expedition to the Rocky mountains. Gen. Dodge was unsurpassed as an Indian fighter, and a sword, with the thanks of the nation, was voted him by congress. He resigned from the army, 4 July, 1836, having been appointed by President Jackson governor of Wisconsin terri- tory and superintendent of Indian affairs. He held this office till 1841, when he was elected dele- gate to congress as a democrat, and served two terms. In 1846 he was again made governor of Wisconsin, and after the admission of that state to the Union was one of its first U. S. senators. He was re-elected, and served altogether from 23 June, 1848, till 3 March, 1857.— His son, Aug-ustus Caesar, senator, b. in St. Genevieve, Mo., 2 Jan., 1812; d. in Burlington, Iowa, 20 Nov., 1883, re- ceived a public-school education, and served under his father in the Winnebago war of 1827 and the Black Hawk war of 1832. He removed to Bur- lington, Iowa, was register of the land-office there in 1838-'9, and was then elected a delegate to con- gress as a democrat from the territory of Iowa, serving from 1840 till 1847. Upon the admission of Iowa to the Union he became one of its U. S. senators, and served from 1848 till his resignation, 8 Feb., 1855, his father being in the senate from Wisconsin during the same period. He was a presi- dential elector in 1848, U. S. minister to Spain in 1855-'9, his appointment being to fill the mission vacated by Pierre Soule. The poet Bryant wrote from Spain, " He is on excellent terms with the people of the country, and has done what I think few of his predecessors have taken the trouble to do — acquired their language." Gen. Dodge was a delegate to the Chicago national democratic con- vention of 1864, and in 1873-'4 was mayor of Burlington, having been chosen on an nidepend- ent ticket. On 4 Feb., 1854, Albert G. Brown, of Mississippi, alluded, in the course of a speech in the senate, to certain occupations as menial and degrading, whereupon Mr. Dodge replied to him, ending with the following words ; " I tell the sena- tor from Mississippi, in presence of my father, who will attest its truth, that I have performed, and do perform when I am at home, all of those menial services to which that senator has referred in terms so grating to my feelings. As a general thing, I saw my own wood and do all my own marketing. I never had a servant, of any color, to wait upon me a day in all my life. I have driven teams, horses, mules, and oxen, and considered myself as respectable then as I now do, or as any senator upon tiiis floor is."

DODGE, John Henry, missionary, b. in Wen- ham, Mass., 14 Feb., 1828 : d. in Wendell, Mass., 18 June, 1863. He worked on a farm till his seventeenth year, when he was apprenticed to a carpenter, and at the same time studied by himself. He was graduated at Amherst in 1856 and at An- dover theological seminary in 1859, ordained on 21 Sept. of that year, and sailed at once for Africa as a missionary. Besides the care of a church and a Sunday-school at Sherbro island, Mendi, West Africa^ he had the oversight of the workmen on the mission farm, and labored to reduce the Sherbro dialect of the Mandingo language to writing. Overwork and the climate undermined his health, and he returned to this country in 1861, after which he was pastor at Wendell, Mass., till his death.

DODGE, Mary Abby, author, b. in Hamilton, Mass., in 1833 ; d! there,"l7 Aug., 1896. She was an instructor in the Hartford, Conn., high school in 1851, and for several years thereafter, and was sub- sequently a governess in the family of Dr. Gama- liel Bailey, of Washington, D. C, to whose paper, the " National Era," she became a contributor. In 1865-7 she was one of the editors of " Our Young Folks," a magazine for children, published in Bos- ton. Since 1876 she has resided much of the time in Washington. She has been a frequent con- tributor to prominent magazines, under the pen-* name of "Gail Hamilton," and her published works, written in a witty and aggressive style, con- sist largely of selections from her contributions. They include " Countrv Living and Country Think- ing " (Boston, 1862) ; "Gala Days " (1863) ; " A New Atmosphere " and " Stumbling Blocks " (1864) ; " Skirmishes and Sketches " (1865) ; " Red-Letter Days in Applethorpe " and " Summer Rest " (1866) :