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a'. Cliancellorsviile, and in June had charge transferred to the flag-ship Niagara, and of the left wing of the Army of Northern later to the San Jacinto, and then to the St. \'irginia. His military career was cut short Laic>rCnce, remaining until 1863. He was

al Gettysburg, where, in Pickett's charge, on the third day, he lost a leg and his liberty. After long imprisonment on Johnson's Island he was exchanged in April, 1865, and was on his way to resume his duties when h;' heard of Lee's surrender. His later years Avere spent in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died January 2, 1888.

Horner, Gustavus Richard Brown, born at

then on duty at the marine rendezvous at Philadelphia until 1866, when he was placed on the retired list, at the head of the list of navy medical directors. He married Mary Agnes Teresa, daughter of Dr. Charles F'yrne, of Jacksonville. Florida.

Marshall, James W., born in Clarke county, \'irginia, August 14, 1822. His early boyhood was passed at Mount Sterl-

^,- ^ \ ■• • • I ,Q ,Q^. c ing, Kentuckv, and on arriving at school age

W arrenton, \ irginia, June 18, i(So4, son of ° ' ..

he returned to his native section to prepare himself for college. He entered Dickinson College, from which he was graduated in

William Horner, of Maryland, and Mary, his wife, daughter of Col. William Edmonds, of Fauquier county, who commanded a regi- ment in the revolutionary war. He attended Rev. William Williamson's high school near Middleburg, and the Warrenton Academy, and afterwards graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He was as- sistant surgeon on the United States ship

Macedonian for two and a half years, and

... r J ^ i-i D J • r ed four vears. In 1860 President Grant ap-

was then transferred to the Brandxzmne for. - -^ ^

^, Tj ^t i 4. Ju 1 pointed Mr. Marshall first assistant post-

six months. He then was sent to the sloop- ^, •. ^-^ <■

! I I ij i J i master-general, in which position he served

of-war John Adams, was promoted to sur- '^ '

1848. He was retained at the college as in- structor in the position of adjunct-professor imtil 1850, when he was promoted to a full [irofessorship of ancient languages, and con- tinued to fill that chair until i86i,when Pres- ident Lincoln appointed him United States consul at Leeds, England, where he remain-

geon, and for three years cruised in the

Mediterranean sea, and he made a second

c-uise of four years on the frigate United

States. He was then on shore duty until

1841, and went to Brazil on the Delaware,

remaining until 1843 as fleet surgeon, and

Avas then sent again to the Mediterranean.

Ill 1844 as fleet surgeon on the frigate

Sai'annah. he went to California, remaining acted as quasi-ambassador to England for

eighteen months, then coming home in 1850 the southern Confederacy. When Mason

by way of Panama. In 1856-58 he was fleet and Slidell were overtaken and detained,

surgeon on the Wabash. In 1861 he went as Mr. Chiselin. who had followed them by

fleet surgeon 10 the flag frigate Colorado, of another route as an emergency diplomat,

tl:e Gulf blockading squadron; in 1862 was took the place which they were designed to

up to the close of the administration, except for the brief term in 1874, when he tempo- rarily filled the ofifice of postmaster-general. In 1877 he was appointed general superin- tendent of the railway mail service, which position he held for one year.

Chiselin, George R., born at Staunton, \'irginia, in 1824. During the civil war he