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Rh the National troops into the river with great loss. Gen. Stone was continued in the same command until '> Feb., 1862. when he was suddenly arrested and imprisoned in Fort Lafayette. New York har- bor, where he remained until 10 Aug., 1862. lie was then released, no charge having been preferred against him, and awaited orders until 3 May. I si;:;, when hi- was din '-led torcpurt tn the commanding general of the Department of the (lull 1, where he served until IT April. 1864. He participated in the siege of Port Hudson in .lime and July, 1868, and was senior niemlier of the commission for receiving the surrender of that place, 8 July. . He was chief of staff to Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, commanding the Department of the Gulf, from 25 July, 1863, to IT April. 1864, par- ticipating in the campaign of Bayou Tec-he. La., in October, 1863, and the Red River campaign in March and April, 1864. He was honorably HIM tered out as brigadier-general of volunteers, 4 A pril, , and resigned his commission as colonel of the 14th infantry, 13 Sept., 1864. In the autumn of 1865 Gen. Stone was appointed engineer and super- intendent of the Dovei- mining company in Gooch- land county, Va., where he resided until 18TO. He then accepted a commission in the Egyptian army, and later was made chief of the general staff, in which capacity he bestowed much attention upon the military school that had already been formed by French officers in the Egyptian service. He created a typographical bureau, where a great num- ber of maps were produced and the government printing was executed, and when the reports of the American officers engaged in exploration of the interior were printed, Gen. Stone was placed in temporary charge of the cadastral survey, and was president of the Geographical society and a member of the Institut Egyptien at Cairo. The American officers were mustered out of the service in 18T9, as a measure of economy, by the reform government which succeeded the dethronement of Ismail. Gen. Stone alone remained, and acted as chief of the staff until the insurrection of Arabi and the army, in which he took no active part. He resigned and returned to the United States in March, 1883. Gen. Stone was decorated by Ismail Pacha with the order of the commander of the Osmanieh, was made grand officer of the Medjidieh and Osmanieh. and was created a Ferik pacha (general of division). In May he was appointed engineer-in-chief of the Florida ship-canal and transit company, and di- rected a preliminary survey across the northern part of the peninsula. On" 3 April, 1886, he be- came engineer-in-chief to the committee for the construction of the pedestal of the Bartholdi statue of " Liberty enlightening the World," and upon its successful completion he acted as grand marshal in the military and civic ceremony that accompanied the dedication of the statue.

STONE, Collins, clergyman and educator, b. in Guilford, Conn., T Sept., 1812: d. in Hartford, Conn., 28 Dec'., 1870. He was graduated at Yale in 1882. and in the following year became a teacher in the American deaf-mute asylum at Hartford. In 1852 he was called as principal to the Ohio state asylum for the deaf and dumb at Columbus, but he returned in 1863 to take charge of the asylum at Hartford, where he remained until his death. He studied theology, and was ordained to the ministry in 1853 while, in Ohio. For nearly forty years Jl r. Stone was prominent in his department of educa- tion, and merits the credit of laying the foundations of the future prosperity of the Ohio institution, and of carrying the Hartford asylum through diffi- culties. He published annual reports of the Ohio institution (1852-'63) and of that at Hartford (1863-'70). His other educational writings, includ- ing an address on the " History of Deaf-Mute Instruction " before the Ohio institution (1869), were published in the "American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb." A railroad accident was the cause of his death.

'''STONE. David''', senator, b. in Hope. N. C.. 17 Feb., 1770; d. in Raleigh, N. C., 7 Oct., 1818. His father, Zedekiah Stone, was a member of the Pro- vincial congress at Halifax, N. ('.. in 1776. and for many years a state senator. David was graduated at Princeton in 1788, studied law. and was admitted to the bar in 1790. He was a member of the legis- lature in 1791-'4, judge of the supreme court of North Carolina in 1795-'8, and a member of con- gress in 1799-1801, having been chosen as a Demo- crat. In the latter year he was sent to the I*. S. senate, bat he resigned in 1807 to become judge of the state supreme court. He was governor of North Carolina in 1808-10, and in the two follow- ing years sat again in congress. In 1813 he was again sent to the U. S. senate by a legislature whose majority supported the measures of President Madi- son and the war with England; but, opposing these measures, he was censured by the legislature, and resigned the following year.

STONE, Ehenezer Wnitten, soldier, b. in Bos- ton, Mass.. 10 June, 1801; d. in Roxbury. Ma-s., 18 April, 1880. In 1817 he enlisted in the U. S. army, from which he was discharged in 1821. He was connected with the Massachusetts militia in 1822-'60, receiving the appointment of adjutant- gciieral in 1851 and filling the post till the close of his service. In 1840 he was a member of the legis- lature, serving on the military committee. The first full battery of light artillery in the United States, except those in the regular army, was or- ganized by him in 1853. and through his efforts Massachusetts was the first state to receive the new rifled musket of the pattern of 1855. From experiments that he made with this musket, Gen. Stone conceived the idea that cannon could also be rifled, and after successful tests in 1859, he or- dered a model from John P. Schenkl, the inventor of the Schenkl shell. It is claimed that this was the first rifled cannon that was made in the United States, and that the invention was original with Gen. Stone, though rifled cannon had been in use in Europe for several years. From April till Octo- ber, 1861. Gen. Stone, as chief of ordnance, armed and equipped twenty-four regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, and three light batteries of artillery. He was for twelve years a member of the Ancient and honorable artillery company, and became its captain in 1841. He prepared, under an act of the legislature, a " Digest of the Militia Laws of Massa- chusetts" (Boston, 1851), and a "Compend of In- structions in Military Tactics," and " The Manual of Percussion Arms" (1857).

STONE, Edwin Martin, clergyman, b. in Framingham, Mass., 29 April, 1805 ; d. in Providence, R. I., 15 Dec., 1883. After working as a printer in Boston, he edited the "Times" in that city in 1827, the " Independent Messenger " in 1832-'3. and subsequently the " Salem Observer." In 1833-'46 he was pastor of a Congregational church in Beverly, Mass., in the mean time serving two years as representative in the general court of Massachusetts, to which he made some important legislative reports. In 1847 he took charge of the ministry-at-large in Providence, R. I., devoting himself for thirty years to mission work, and suggesting reforms that were successfully carried out. Chief of these was a home for aged men, founded