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detailed to special service until appointed by Gov. Reynolds to the Confederate States senate, to fill a vacancy ; after the war he fled to Hamilton, Canada, but subsequently returned to Osceola, Missouri, and was president of the convention of October, 1875, that adopted a new state constitution ; he died in Osceola, Alissouri, August 14, 1885.

McSherry, Richard, born in Martinsburg, Virginia, November 21, 181 7, son of Dr. Richard McSherry, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania Medical School, and for more than half a century practiced his profession in his native state ; Georgetown College, D. C, the University of Maryland, and the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1841, aiYorded Richard McSherry, Jr., the means of obtaining a classical and profes- sional education; on August 21, 1838. he v/as appointed assistant surgeon in the medical corps of the United States army, served imder Gen. Taylor in the Seminole war, and resigned his commission, April 30, 1840; for a period of thirteen years, from 1843 to 1856, he was assistant surgeon in the United States navy : he began the prac- tice of his profession in Baltimore, Alary- land, in 1856. and continued until 1883; was professor of materia medica in the Univer- sity of Maryland from 1862 to 1865, and of the principles and practice of medicine there from 1865 to 1885, the latter being the year o' his death ; was a member of the medico- chirurgical faculty of Maryland, vice-presi- dent of that body in 1870, and president in 1883 ; one of the founders and first president of the Baltimore Academy of Medicine, and president of the Maryland State Board of Health; he was a frequent contributor to

the leading medical journals, and was the author of "El Puchero, or a Mixed Tjish from Mexico" (1850) ; "Essays" (1869) ; and "Health and How to Promote It" (1883); he married, m 1842, a daughter of Robert Wilson, a prominent lawyer of Baltimore, Alaryland ; Dr. McSherry died in Baltimore, Maryland, October 7, 1885.

Stevenson, Carter Littlepage, son of Car- ter Littlepage Stevenson and Jane Hern- don, his wife, was born near Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 21, 1817. He was graduated from the United States Military- Academy, July I, 1838, and assigned to the Fifth Infantry. He served on frontier duty and in the Florida war, and was commis- sioned first lieutenant. He also served in Texas and through the Mexican war, and was promoted to captain. After the war he was again on frontier service, and in 1861 resigned from the army. He was at once made lieutenant-colonel. C. S. A., and served as adjutant to Gen. Long, 1861 ; commis- sioned colonel of the Fifty-third Virginia Infantry; in 1862 promoted to brigadier- general, and later the same year to major- general. He commanded a division under Gen. Bragg in Tennessee, bore the brunt of the battle at Edward's Station, and pro- tected the Confederate rear in the retreat to Vicksburg. He distinguished himself in the Georgia campaign against Sherman, and in front of Atlanta succeeded to the com- mand of Hood's corps when that oificer suc- ceeded Johnston in command of the army, and again aided in resisting Sherman during the Carolina campaign. He died in Caro- line county, Virginia, August 15, 1888. Gen Lewis Littlepage (q. v.) was his half-great- uncle.