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LEFT WARREN" 294 WARREN lieutenant of Topographical Engineers; was engaged in river surveys, and in ex- ploring and making maps for railroad routes between the Mississippi river and the Pacific Ocean in 1850-1859; and was assistant Professor of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy in 1859-1861. When the Civil War broke out he became lieutenant-colonel of the 5th New York Volunteers and colonel in August, 1861. He was promoted cap- tain of United States Engineers, Sept. 9, 1861; promoted Brigadier-General of volunteei's in September, 1862, for his gallantry at Gaines' Mills, and chief of topographical engineers in February, 1863. In March of the same year he was made chief of engineers in the Army of the Potomac. During the battle of Gettysburg, while on the staff of General Meade, he ordered the 140th New York regiment to seize Little Round Top. After a sharp hand-to-hand struggle this hill, which was the key to the whole Union position, was carried. He was promoted Major-General of volunteers in May, 1863, and in March, 1864, when the Army of the Potomac was reorgan- ized he was placed in command of the 5th corps. He distinguished himself in the battles of Marye's Heights, Chan- cellorsville, Salem, the Wilderness, North Anna, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, Five Forks, etc. At the in- stance of General Sheridan, who accused General Warren to General Grant of criticizing the acts of his superior offi- cers, he was relieved from the command of his corps, but was later vindicated by a court of inquiry. Shortly after this he was placed in command of the De- partment of the Mississippi. In June, 1864, he was promoted major of United States Engineers, which post he as- sumed in May, 1865, when he was mus- tered out of the volunteer service. He was brevetted Major-General U. S. A. in March, 1865, and promoted lieuten- ant-colonel in March, 1874. His publica- tions include: "Explorations in the Dakota Country" (1855-1856); "Pre- liminary Reports of Explorations in the Nebraska and Dakota in the Years 1855- 1857" (1858) ; and "An Account of the 5th Army Corps at the Battle of Five Forks" (1866). He died in Newport, R. I., Aug. 8, 1882, A statue was erected to his memory on Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Pa., in 1888. WARREN, JOSEPH, an American patriot; born in Roxbury, Mass., June 11, 1741. He was graduated at Harvard Col- lege in 1759, studied medicine, and set- tled in Boston, where he soon acquired an extensive practice. He warmly em- braced the cause of the colonies in the controversy with the British Govern- ment, and, in 1772, was made a member of the committee of correspondence formed for the purpose of communica- tion with the several towns in Massa- chusetts. In 1774, he was elected a dele- gate to the Massachusetts congress, of which he was made president, and also chairman of the committee of public safety. On June 14, 1775, he received a commission as Major-(jeneral; and when a majority of the council of war determined to fortify Bunker Hill, ho insisted on having a share in the action that would take place. As he was warned by Elbridge Gerry against the hazard of exposing his person: "I know that I may fall," was the answer of Warren, "but where is the man who does not think it glorious and delight- ful to die for his country?" He was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. His statue, by Henry Dexter, was unveiled on Bunker Hill, June 17, 1857. WARREN, MERCY OTIS, an Ameri- can patriot; born in Barnstable, Mass., Sept. 25, 1728. An ardent patriot, she corresponded with the leaders of the Rev- volution, among them Samuel and John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. The "Correspondence of John Adams and Mercy Warren" was published by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1878. She wrote dramatic and satirical poems against the Royalists (1773-1775), which were included in her volume of "Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous" (1790). She published "A History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, Interspersed with Biographical, Political, and Moral Observations" (3 vols. 1805). She died in Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 19, 1814. WARREN, SAMUEL, a British nov- elist; born in Denbighshire, Wales, May 23, 1807. He studied medicine at Edin- burgh and law at the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar in 1837. He was made a Queen's Counsel (1851), was Recorder of Hull (1854-1874), repre- sented Midhurst in the Conservative in- terest (1856-1859), and then he was ap- pointed one of the two Masters of Lunacv. His "Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician" (1832) had been contributed to "Blackwood's Magazine," as also was "Ten Thousand a Year" (1841), the amusing stoiy of "Tittlebat Titmouse." By these he is chiefly re- membered ; but he published a dozen more works, including "Now and Then" (1847), "The Lily and the Bee" (1851), and several law books. He died in Lon- don, July 29, 1877.