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Rh charge of the expedition of Bull's bay. He was commissioned captain, 25 July, ISliG. commodore, 1 July, 1870, and rear-admiral, 12 Feb., 1874. He was retired on 4 June, 1874, on his own application.

STANNARD, George Jerrison, soldier, b. in Georgia. V'l.. 20 Oct., 1820: d. in Washington, D. C.. 31 May, 1886. He received an academic r.lii. ation, worked on his father's farm, teaching in winter, and was a clerk in a foundry from 1845 till 1860, when he became joint proprietor of the business. He was a colonel of militia when the civil war began, and was the first man in Vermont to offer his services after the president's call for volunteers. He was commissioned as lieutenant- colonel of the 2d Vermont regiment, which was mustered into the service in May, 1861. He was at the first battle of Bull Run, and while stationed near the Chain bridge in the following autumn fre- quently led scouting parties into the enemy's terri- tory. In May, 1862, he was commissioned colonel of the 9th Vermont infantry, which was stationed at Harper's Ferry when Col. Dixon S. Miles sur- rendered that post, and on being paroled went into camp at Chicago. On 11 March, 1863, he was com- missioned as brigadier-general. His brigade of Vermont troops came up at the close of the first day's battle at Gettysburg. On the second day he held the left slope of Cemetery hill till he was ordered farther to the left in the afternoon to oppose Gen. James Longstreet's assault after the rout of the 3d corps. His brigade closed the gap speedily, saving two batteries, retaking another, and capturing two Confederate guns. On the third day it opposed a solid front to Gen. George E. Pickett's division, and, when the Confederate column turned slightly to the left, threw the assail- ants into confusion by a flanking fire. Gen. Stan- nard was wounded in the action, and could not return to the field till May, 1864. At Cold Harbor he was struck by a rifle-ball, but brought off the remnant of his command. He led the advance on Petersburg, and was assigned to the com- mand of a division, but was again wounded and, moreover, disabled by sickness. When he re- joined the army after a few weeks of absence he led the advance upon the defences of Richmond north of James river, and captured Fort Harri- son, for which he was brevetted major-general on 28 Oct., 1864, but when the enemy attempted to storm the works on the day after their capture a bullet shattered his arm, necessitating amputation. He returned to his home, and in December, 1864, after the raid on St. Albans, was placed in charge of the defence of the northern frontier of Vermont. He resigned on 27 June, 1866, and was appointed collector of customs for the district of Vermont, which office he held till 1872.

STANSBURY, Arthur J., author, b. in New York city in 1781 ; d. about 18^5. He was graduated at Columbia in 1799, and licensed to preach in 1810. Besides contributing to periodicals, he pub- lished several sermons and addresses, and was the author of " Elementary Catechism on the Consti- tution of the United States" (Boston, 1828) and a " Report of the Trial of Judge James H. Peck, or an Impeachment by the House of Representatives of the United States " (1833). His reports of the debates in congress for twenty years are embodied in Joseph Gales's and William W. Seaton's " Regis- ter of Debates" (14 vols., Washington, 1825-37). He also wrote and illustrated books for children.

STANSBURY, Howard, explorer, b. in New York city, 8 Feb., 1806 ; d. in Madison, Wis., 17 April, 1863. Early in life he became a civil engi- neer, and in October, 1828, he was placed in charge of the survey of proposed canals to unite Lake Erie and Lake Michigan with the Wabash river, and was also engaged in other surveys of western rivers. In 1835 he had charge of numerous public works in Indiana, in 1836 he made a survey of James river with a view toward improving the harbor of Richmond, and in is:_!7 lie surveyed Illinois and Kaskaskia rivers, being afterward engaged upon the survey for a railroad from Milwaukee to Du- buque, and charged with the construction of a road from Milwaukee to Mississippi river. He became 1st lieutenant of U. S. topographical engineers on 7 July. 1838, captain in 1840, and in 1841 was engaged in a survey of the lakes. In 1842 '5 he was in charge of the survey of the harbor of Ports- mouth, N. H., a work which for minute accuracy of detail is unsurpassed in this country. In 1847 he was charged with the construction of an iron light-house on Carysfort reef, Florida, which is the largest light-house on our coast. From 1849 till 1851 he was engaged in the Great Salt Lake expe- dition, his report of which gave him a wide reputa- tion. In 1852-'3 he was engaged upon the lake harbors, and in 1856 he was assigned to the charge of the military roads in Minnesota. He was ap- pointed major on 28 Sept., 1861, and at the time of his death he was mustering and disbursing officer at Madison. Maj. Stansbury published " An Expe- dition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah" (Philadelphia, 1852; 2d ed., 1855).

STANSBURY, Joseph, merchant, b. in Eng- land in 1750 ; d. in New York city in 1809. He emigrated to Philadelphia, where he became an importing merchant, and was generally respected for his integrity. In 1776 it was reported that he " sung 'God save the King' in his house, and that a number of persons present bore him the chorus," and before the close of that year he was imprisoned in Burlington, N. J. In 1777 he was appointed by Sir William Howe a commissioner for selecting and governing the city watch of Philadelphia, and in 1778 he was a manager of that officer's lottery for the relief of the poor. In 1780 the Whigs were again in possession of Philadelphia, and again im- prisoned him, and the agent of the loyalists' es- tates was directed by the council of Philadelphia to make an inventory of his possessions. His re- quest for permission to live within the British lines was granted on the condition that he should pro- cure the release and safe return of two prisoners then on Long Island, and that he would do noth- ing injurious to the Whig cause. He was liberated, his property was restored, and with his family he resided in New York during the remainder of the war, and afterward removed to Nova Scotia, but returned to Philadelphia in 1785. intending to re- sume his former occupation, but, threatened with violence, he removed to New York, where he be- came secretary of an insurance company. He wrote in support of the crown, and his verses were edit- ed by Winthrop Sargent under the title of Stans- bury's and Odell's " Loyal Verses " (Albany, 1860). His son, Philip, traveller, b. in New York city about 1802 ; d. about 1870. was the author of " A Pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred Miles in North America, to the Lakes, the Cana- das. and the New England States, performed in the Autumn of 1821 " (New York, 1822). This work, which is exceedingly rare, is characterized ' by great keenness of observation, and contains one of the best descriptions extant of the important battle-fields included in the conquest of Canada in 1759-'63, its invasion during the war of 1812, the wars with the Indians in the New England states, the Revolutionary contest in Massachusetts,