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Rh of his brother in the famous cavalry charges, and in the fight at Namozine Church, 2 April, 1865, he captured a Confederate flag. At Sailor's Creek, 6 April, he captured a second flag, but was shot by the standard-bearer and severely wounded in the face. He was preparing to charge again, when stopped by his brother and told to go to the rear and have his wound dressed. As he paid no attention to this request, it became necessary for Gen. Custer to order him under arrest before he could check his ardor. He received a medal from congress for the capture of the colors at Sailor's Creek. In the spring of 1865 he accompanied Gen. Custer to Texas and served on the staff until mustered out of service in November. He received the brevets of captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel. On 28 Feb., 1866, he was appointed second lieutenant in the 1st infantry of the regular army, and on 28 July was promoted to a first lieutenancy in his brother's regiment, the 7th cavalry, with which he served on frontier duty until he fell beside his brother in the battle of the Little Big Horn. When he was asked his opinion of his brother, just before the final campaign, Gen. Custer said: &ldquo;If you want to know my opinion of Tom, I can only say that I think he should be the general and I the captain.&rdquo;

CUSTINE, Adam Philippe (kus-teen'). Count de. French soldier, b. in Metz, 4 Feb., 1740 ; d. in Paris, 28 Aug., 1793. After serving as a captain in the seven years' war, he became a colonel in 1772. He took part in the American Revolution- ary war, and was quartermaster-general of the French forces in America in 1778-'83. He was present at Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, and on his return to France in 1783 was made mestre- de-camp and governor of Toulon. In 1789 he was deputed to the states-general by the nobility of Metz, and advocated the cause of reform. He subsequently commanded the army of the north, received in June, 1792, the command of the army of the lower Rhine, and after some successes again took command of the northern army in May, 1793, from which, however, he was soon recalled by the committee of safety and placed at the bar of the revolutionary tribunal, and, notwithstanding a spirited defence, was sentenced to be guillotined.

CUSTIS, George Washington Parke, author, b. at Mount Airy, Md., 30 April, 1781 ; d. at Ar- lington House, Fairfax co., Va., 10 Oct., 1857. His father, Col. John Parke Custis, the son of Mrs. Washington by her first husband, was aide-de- camp to Washington at the siege of Yorktown, and d. 5 Nov., 1781, aged twenty-eight. The son had his early home at Mount Vernon, pursued his classi- cal studies at St. John's college and at Princeton, and remained a member of Washington's family until the death of Mrs. Washington in 1802, when he built Ai'lington House on an estate of 1,000 acres near Washington, which he had inherited from his father. After the death in 1852 of his sister, Eleanor Parke Custis, wife of Maj. Law- rence Lewis, he was the sole surviving member of Washington's family, and his residence was for many years a favorite resort, owing to the inter- esting relics of that family which it contained. Mr. Custis married in early life Mary Lee Fitz- hugh, of Virginia, and left a daughter, who mar- ried Robert E. Lee. The Arlington estate was con- fiscated during the civil war, and is now held as national property, and is the site of a national sol- diers' cemetery. The house is represented in the ac- companying illustration. Mr. Custis was in his early days an eloquent and effective speaker. He wrote orations and plays, and during his latter years executed a number of large paintings of Revolu- tionary battles. His " Recollections of Washing- ton," originally contributed to the " National Intelligencer," was published in book-form, with a memoir bv his daughter and notes by Benson J, Lossing (New York, 1860).

CUTBUSH, James, chemist, b. in Pennsylvania; d. at West Point, N. Y., 15 Dec., 1823. Concerning his early history, very little is known, except that he taught chemistry. He was appointed to the army with the rank of assistant apothecary-general in 1814, served first in Philadelphia, was afterward attached to the northern division of the army, and was chief medical officer of the U. S. military academy and the post at West Point from June, 1820, till November, 1821. On the reorganization of the army he became assistant surgeon and acting professor of chemistry and mineralogy at West Point, in which capacity he continued until his death. He was president of the Columbian chemical society in Philadelphia, wrote several papers in the earlier volumes of Silliman's &ldquo;American Journal of Sciences,&rdquo; and was the author of &ldquo;Useful Cabinet&rdquo; (1808); &ldquo;Philosophy of Experimental Chemistry&rdquo; (1813); and &ldquo;Treatise on Pyrotechnics&rdquo; (Philadelphia, 1825).

CUTHBERT, Alfred, senator, b. in Savannah, Ga., about 1781 : d. near Monticello, Ga., 9 July, 1856. He was graduated at Princeton college in 1803, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began to practise in Monticello, Jasper co., Ga. He was first elected to the state legislature, then a representative from Georgia in the 13th and 14th congresses, serving till 1816, when he resigned. He was again elected to the 17th, 18th, and 19th congresses, serving from 3 Dec, 1821, till 3 March, 1827. He was elected U. S. senator from Georgia in place of John Forsyth, who resigned 27 June, 1834, and was re-elected for a full term, serving from 12 Jan., 1835, till 3 March, 1843.

CUTHBERT, James Hazzard, clergyman, b. in Beaufort, S. C, 13 Dec, 1823 ; d. in Aiken, S. C, 6 May, 1893. He was graduated at Princeton in 1843, studied theology under his uncle, Rev. Rich- ard Fuller, D. D., and became in 1847 pastor of the Wentworth street Baptist church, Charleston, S. C. In 1855 he was called to the pastorate of the 1st Baptist church, Philadelphia, Pa., where he re- mained until the beginning of the civil war in 1861. Returning to the south, he preached for some years in Augusta, Ga., and in 1869 became pastor of the 1st Baptist church in Washington, D. C. Dr. Cuth- bert has received the degree of D. D. from Wake Forest college, N. C. He is the author of "The Life of Richard Fuller, D. D." (New York, 1879).

CUTHBERT, John Alexander, b. in Savannah, Ga., 3 June, 1788; d. near Mobile, Ala., 22 Sept., 1881. His father was a colonel in the Revolution-