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the Army of Southeast Missouri, and from the latter named date until June 6, 1863, again commanded the St. Louis district, co- operating with Gen. Steele in his Little Rock expedition and directing the move- ments of troops against Pilot Knob and Frederickstown, and in the pursuit of the enemy during Marmaduke's raid into Mis- souri. From June until September, 1863, he led a cavalry division, commanded in the actions at Brownsville, Bayou Metre, and Ashley's Mills, Arkansas, and took part in the capture of Little Rock. On June 26, 1864, he was made chief of cavalry of the military division west of the Mississippi, and on November 24, 1864, led a cavalry ex- pedition from Baton Rouge to Pascagoula. On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted briga- dier-general in the regular army for the cap- ture of Little Rock, and major-general for his services during the war. On December I, 1866, he was made lieutenant-colonel of the Tenth Cavalry, was acting inspector- general of the department of the Missouri from November, 1866, until December, 1867, and professor of military science in Kansas Agricultural College from 1868 to 1871. He commanded various posts in Idaho and Texas, also the district of Upper Brazos, Texas, in 1877-78, and was made colonel of the Second Cavalry, March 20, 1879. He died at St. Paul, Minnesota, June 26, 1881.

Monteiro, Aristides, came of a Castilian family in the paternal line and of English ancestry on the maternal side. His father, Francis Xavier Monteiro de Barros, was a man of great learning and literary attain- ments, who after taking an active part in an efTort to establish a republic in Portugal, was forced to flee from that country. He

settled in Virginia about 1823, and devoted the remainder of his life to science and liter- ature. At his death in December, 1848, he left eight sons and a daughter. Dr. Aris- tides Monteiro, the seventh son, was born in Goochland county, \'irginia, January 12, 1S29, and soon after his father's death en- tered the medical department of the Univer- sity of Virginia. The following year he be- came a student in the Jefiferson Medical Col- lege of Philadelphia, where he was gradu- ated in March, 185 1. He began the practice of medicine in his native county, and in 1857 he removed to Albemarle county. He was at first surgeon of the Tenth Virginia Cavalry Regiment in West Virginia, and was then attached to Hillary P. Jones' battalion of artillery, with which he served through the Seven Days' battles of the Chickahominy, and then proceeded into Maryland. He was afterward with Nelson's battalion of artil- lery until the battle of Sharpsburg, and next was ordered to serve with Maj. Rich- ardson's battalion, which was disbanded at Staunton, Virginia. With Col. Alexander's battalion he served through the Gettys- burg, Chickamauga and Knoxville cam- paign until the spring of 1864 and next was stationed at the general receiving hospital of the Army of Northern Virginia. After two months he was transferred to Gen. Wise's brigade, and remained as surgeon of the Twenty-sixth Regiment until Col. Mosby sought his services, and with that intrepid leader he remained until the command was disbanded, April 21, 1865. He resumed the practice of medicine in Albemarle county, Virginia, and in 1866 went to Chesterfield, that state, and in 1870 to Manchester. In 1882 he removed to North Carolina, where his practice covered a wide area, and while