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LEFT DODGE 389 DODO engineer in the construction of the Il- linois Central and Rock Island railroads. He entered the Civil War as colonel of the 4th Iowa Infantry; commanded a brigade at Pea Ridge in March, 1862, and became a Major-General of United States volunteers in June, 1864. He com- manded a corps of General Sherman's army in the campaign against Atlanta (1864), and succeeded Rosecrans as com- mander of the Department of Missouri in December of that year. After the war he was chief engineer of the Union Pacific railroad and superintended its construction, and was a member of Con- gress from Iowa in 1867-1869. He suc- ceeded General Sherman as president of the Association of the Army of the Ten- nessee in 1894, and was also president of the New York Commandery of the Loyal Legion. In 1898 he was made chairman of the President's Commission to in- quire into the management of the War Department in the war with Spain. He died Jan. 3, 1916. DODGE, MARY ABIGAIL, an Amer- ican journalist and author; born in Hamilton, Mass., in 1838. For several years she was instructor in the High School at Hartford, Conn. From 1865 to 1867 she was one of the editors of "Our Young Folks." Besides numerous con- tributions to current literature, she has written, under the pseudonym of "Gail Hamilton": "Gala Davs" (1863); "Woman's Wrongs" (1868) ; "The Battle of the Books" (1870) ; "Woman's Worth and Worthlessness" (1871) ; "The Insup- pressible Book" (1885) ; "Red-Letter Days"; "Country Living and Country Thinking"; "Twelve Miles from a Lemon"; and "Biography of James G. Blaine." She died in Hamilton, Mass., Aug. 17, 1896. DODGE, MARY ELIZABETH MAPES, an American editor, author, and poet; born in New York City in 1838. Since 1873 she has been the editor of "St. Nicholas" (magazine). New York. Her best-known work is "Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates" (1876), which has been translated into five foreign languages. Among her other works, are: "Irvington Stories" (1864); "Theo- philus, and Others" (1876) ; "Along the Way" (1879) ; "Donald and Dorothy" (1883) ; "The Land of Pluck." She died Aug. 22, 1905. DODGE, THEODORE AYRAULT, an American military officer and writer; born in Pittsfield, Mass., May 28, 1842; received his military education abroad. Returning to the United States, he en- listed (1861) in the Union service as a private, attaining the rank of colonel, Dec. 2, 1865. He published; "The Cam- paign of Chancellorsville" (1881); a "Bird's-Eye View of the Civil War^' (1883) ; "A Chat in the Saddle" (1885) ; and a series of studies called "Great Captains," comprising volumes on Alex- ander the Great, Hannibal, Gustavus Adolphus, etc. He died Oct. 26, 1909. DODGE, WILLIAM EARL, an Amer- ican capitalist; born in Hartford, Conn., Sept. 4, 1805. He received a common school education, entered the wholesale dry-goods business, and in 1833 became a member of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., retiring in 1879 with a large for- tune. He was director of the Erie rail- road, president of the New York Chamber of Commerce, trustee of Union Theologi- cal Seminary, a founder of the Union League of New York, and an ardent friend of the freedman. He died in New York City, Feb. 9, 1883. DODGE CITY, a city of Kansas, the county-seat of Ford co. It is on the Arkansas river, and on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe' and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroads. It is the center of an important stock-rais- ing and wheat-growing district. In the seventies it was the chief shipping point for cattle. The division oflfices and ma- chine shops of the Santa Fe railroad are located here. It is the seat of St. Mary's of the Plains Academy, and has a public library and a United States Land Office and Weather Bureau building. Pop. (1910) 3,214; (1920) 5,061. DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE, an English humorist (better known by his pen-name of Lewis Carroll) ; was born in 1832. He entered Christ Church, Oxford, graduated in 1854. He was elected a student of his college, took orders in 1861, and from 1855 to 1881 was mathematical lecturer. Under the name of Lewis Carroll he issued in 1865 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," which, with its continuation "Through the Looking-Glass" (1872), has become a nursery classic. He also published some poems and parodies entitled "Phantasmagoria" (1869); "Hunting of the Snark" (1876); "Doublets" (1879); "Rhyme? and Reason?" (1883); "Euclid and His Modern Rivals" (1879); "A "Tangled Tale" (1886) ; "Game of Logic" (1887) ; and "Mathematica Curiosa" (1888), the last a valuable contribution to mathematics. He died Jan. 14, 1898. DODO, a large bird, belonging to the order Columhidse, or pigeons, that in- habited Mauritius in great numbers when that island was colonized in 1644 by the Dutch, but which was totally exter- minated within 50 years from that date. The dodo was a heavy bird, bigger than