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then taken to Libby prison, Richmond. For his conduct at Gaines' Mills he was bre- vetted lieutenant-colonel on June 28, 1862. The wounds that he received on this occa- sion nearly caused his death, and par- tially disabled him for the rest of his life. After his release from Libby prison he un- derwent treatment in St. Luke's hospital, New York, and then served as instructor of cavalry at the United States military acad- emy from October, 1862, till June, 1864. He was made major in the Fourth Cavalry, March 30, 1864, served as special inspector of cavalry, division of the Mississippi, from August, 1864, till April, 1865, and with his regiment in Texas till November i, 1867, when he resigned and became president and general manager of the Cobourg Railway and Mining Company, Cobourg, Canada. He published a pamphlet on "General Mc- Clellan and the Presidency" (1864). He died February 22, 1887.

Chancellor, Charles William, born in Spot- sylvania county, Virginia, February 19, 1833 ; was educated at Georgetown College, D. C, and at the University of Virginia ; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Phil- adelphia, in 1853. and practised in Alexan- dria, Virginia, till 1861. During the civil war he was medical director on the staff of General Pickett, in the Confederate army. After the war he practised in Memphis, Tennessee, till 1868, when he was elected professor of anatomy in Washington Uni- versity, Baltimore, Maryland ; he was made dean of the faculty in 1869, and transferred to the chair of surgery in 1870; resigned in 1873; was elected secretary of the state board of health in 1876, and president of the state insane asylum in 1877. He published

a "Report upon the Condition of the Pris- ons, Reformatories, and Charitable Institu- tions of Maryland," made to the governor of the state (Frederick, Maryland, 1875) ; a treatise on "Mineral Waters and Seaside Resorts" (Baltimore, 1883); and a large number of monographs on medical and san- itary subjects, including "Contagious and Infectious Diseases" (Baltimore, 1878) ; "Drainage of the Marsh Lands of Mary- land" (1884); "A Sanitary Inspection of Elkton, Maryland," (1886); "Heredity" (Philadelphia, 1886) ; and the "Sewerage of Cities" (Baltimore, 1886). He has also read papers before the American public health association on "The Squalid Dwellings of the Poor" (1884) ; and "Impure Air and Unhealthy Occupations as Predisposing Causes of Pulmonary Consumption'' (1885). Dr. Chancellor was a fellow of the Royal Society of London.

Bangs, Francis C, born in Virginia, in Octol)er, 1837. His first appearance on the stage was in November, 1852, in the old National Theatre, Washington, D. C. He played in New York for the first time, at Laura Keene's theatre, in the spring of 1858: at Wallack's in December of that year, and at the Winter Garden in i860; after which he retired from the stage until 1865, when he appeared as William Tell at the National Theatre, Washington. He played Old Tom in "After Dark" at Niblo's Garden in November, 1868, and in 1869 ap- peared as the Duke of Alva in "Patrie" at the Grand Opera House. He took part in the Shakespearian revival at Booth's Thea- tre in 1873, and afterward played with Charles Thorne in the "Corsican Brothers." In 1884 he appeared in the role of Willie Denver in "The Silver King."