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Rh forward, Gist acting as his scout, and on 27 April the latter announced that the French were within five miles of the American camp. An engagement followed, and the French were beaten. Gist's sub- sequent history is unknown.

GIST, Mordecai, soldier, b. in Baltimore, Md., in 1743 ; d. in Charleston, S. C, in 1792. His an- cestors were early English emigrants to Maryland. He was educated for commercial pursuits. At the beginning of the Revolution the young men of Bal- timore associated imder the title of the " Baltimore independent company," and elected Gist captain. It was the first company raised in Maryland for the defence of popular liberty. In 1776 Gist was appointed major of a battalion of Maryland regulars, and was with them intheljattlenear Brooklyn. In January, 1779, congi-ess ap- pointed him a brigadier-gener- al in the con- tinental army, and he took the command of the 2d Maryland bri- gade. He fought stubbornly at the battle of C-amden, S. C, in 1780, and at one time after a bayonet charge his force secured fifty prisoners, but the British under Cornwallis rallied and the Marylanders gave way. Gist escaped, and a year later was present at tlie surrender of Cornwallis. He joined the southern army under Greene, and again when the army was remodelled in 1782 he was given the command of the light corps. On 26 Aug., 1782, he rallied the broken forces of the Americans under Laurens at the battle of the Combahee, and gained a decisive victory over the British. After the war he resided on his plantation near Charles- ton, S. C. Gen. Gist possessed a tall and graceful figure, symmetrical proportions, great strength, and expressive features. He had but two children. sons, one of whom he named " Independent " and the other '• States."

GLADDEN, Adley H., soldier, b. in South Carolina ; d. in April, 1862. He was a major in Col. Butler's Palmetto regiment of South Caro- lina volunteers in the Mexican war, became lieu- tenant-colonel, and commanded the regiment at the battle of Churubusco, at which both of his superior officers were killed. He was severely wounded at the Belen Gate. In 1861 he was appointed a briga- dier-general in the Confederate army, and was as- signed a brigade in Wither's division of Bragg's corps. He was wounded on the first day of the battle of Shiloh, and died soon afterward.

GLADDEN, Washington, clergyman, b. in Pittsgrove, Pa., 11 Feb., 1836. He was graduated at Williams in 1859. After a course of theology he became pastor of the State street Congregational church in Brooklyn in 1860, then in Morrisania and in North Adams, Mass., in 1867-'71, when he re- moved to New York and was on the editorial staff of the New York " Independent " until 1875. From 1875 till 1883 he was pastor of the North Congregational church in Springfield, Mass., and for some time edited " Sunday Afternoon." He then went to Columbus, Ohio, to be pastor of the first church in that city. He has been a frequent contributor to papers and periodicals, a successful public lec- turer, and has published " Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living " (Boston, 1868) ; " From the Hub to the Hudson " (1869) ; " Workingmen and their Employers " (1876) ; " Being a Christian " (1876) ; "The "Christian Boy" (New York, 1877): "The Lord's Prayer " (Boston, 1880) ; " The Christian League of Connecticut " (New York, 1883) ; " Things New and Old " (Columbus, 1884) ; " The Young Men and the Churches" (Boston, 1885); and "Applied Christianity" (Boston, 1887).

GLADWIN, Henry, British soldier, d. near Chesterfield, Derby, England, 22 June, 1791. He became a lieutenant in the 48th foot, 28 Aug., 1753, was wounded in the expedition of Braddock in 1755, promoted to a captaincy in the 80th on 25 Dec, 1757, and rose to the rank of major, 20 June, 1759. He was in command of the fort at Detroit when it was besieged by Pontiac in 1763-'4, and for his gallant defence was promoted to a lieu- tenant-colonelcy, 17 Sept., 1763, and to a colonelcy, 29 Aug., 1777. In the Revolutionary war he was a deputy adjutant-general,' and served with dis- tinction, becoming a major-general, 26 Sept., 1782.

GLASS, Francis, classical scholar, b. in Lon- donderry, Ireland, in 1790; d. in Dayton, Ohio, in 1825. He was educated in Philadelphia, and spent the earlier part of his life in that city and its vi- cinity, engaged in literary pursuits. In 1817 or 1818 he left Pennsylvania for the west, and settled in the Miami country, where he taught for sev- eral years in various places. In the summer of 1823, James M. Reynolds, then a member of the Ohio university, having occasion for the services of a tutor, sought out Mr. Glass, whom he found at the head of a country school in Warren county. In a little log school-house, furnished with desks and benches of rough plank over which the plane had never passed, this accomplished scholar was imparting the rudiments of an English education to a few children of the neighboring farmers, and giving a higher training to half a dozen youths who had joined his school for the benefit of his in- struction in the Greek and Latin languages. Mr. Reynolds speaks in the highest terms of his learn- ing and his love of the classics. " The mind," he says, " was with him measured by the amount of classical acquirements. He was not deficient in mathematics and other branches of useful science, but they were only matters of mere utility and not of affection." " He was delicately formed in mind and body, and shrunk from all coarseness as a sensitive plant from the rude touch. A cold or unfeeling word seemed to palsy every current of his soul and every power of his mind ; but when addressed in gentle, confiding tones, he was easy, communicative, and full of light and life. At such hours he poured out a stream of classical knowl- edge as clear, sparkling, and copious as ever flowed from the fountain of inspiration in the early days of the Muses." Mr. Reynolds had been with Glass for about three months when the latter communi- cated to him his long-cherished plan of writing the life of Washington in Latin for the use of schools. There seemed little prospect, however, of his ac- complishing it. In feeble health, in extreme pov- erty, and borne down by the daily drudgery of his school, he feared that he might die before he had begun the work. Arrangements were made by Mr. Reynolds for his relief, and he removed to Dayton, where, in the winter of 1824, he began his book