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acquaintance of Lord Byron's widow, who entertained him at her home. As lieutenant, he was on duty with Commodore Stribling's fleet in the Chinese seas when the civil war broke out. When the fleet returned to Bos- ton, Lieutenant Glassell, with other officers who would not take the oath of allegiance to the United States, was imprisoned at Fort Warren for about eight months, and there exchanged, as a prisoner of war, on the James river, Virginia. He was commis- sioned lieutenant in the Confederate States navy, to date from August 5, 1862, the time of his arrest and imprisonment, and was ordered to the Cliicora. at Charleston, South Carolina, as deck officer in command of the first division. He fired the first shot, Janu- ary 30, 1863, at the Keystone State, in the attack on the United States fleet, which killed twenty-one men and wounded fifteen, and obliged Captain Le Roy to haul down his colors, but which he subsequently re- hoisted, and sailed away. At Wilmington, North Carolina, Lieutenant Glassell equip- ped the ironclad North Carolina. He was then sent to Charleston, South Carolina, to aid in the defense of that city, and to that end he devised and constructed the torpedo boat David, and on October 5, 1863, person- ally exploded his torpedo under the finest ship of the United States navy, New Iron- sides, injuring her so greatly that for a time she was useless. Lieutenant Glassell's David was so badly damaged that her crew abandoned her, and he himself was picked up out of the water by the enemy and con- fined successively in Forts Warren and Lafayette. After twelve months' imprison- ment, he was exchanged, late in 1864. He was commissioned commander in the Con-

federate States navy, to date from his ex- ploit against the Nciv Ironsides. He was sent to the James river, and given command of the ironclad Fredericksburg, which he blew up at the time Richmond was evacuated, to keep her from falling into the hands of the enemy. He subsequently served with the artillery under Gen. Johnston, and surren- dered with him and his army. He was offered high rank in the Chilian and Peru- vian navies, but declined to leave America. In 1866 he removed to California, and died at Los Angeles, in that state, in 1876.

Fatten, George Smith, born at Fredericks- burg, Virginia, June 26, 1833, son of Hon. John Mercer Patton, (q. v.), statesman and jurist. He graduated at the Virginia Mili- tary Institute, July 4, 1852; studied law, while engaged as a teacher; and on being admitted to the bar, engaged in practice at Charleston, Virginia. In April, 1861, he was commissioned captain in the Confeder- ate States army, and was in time promoted to major and lieutenant-colonel. Twenty- second Virginia Infantry Regiment. At the battle of Scary, in July, 1861, while leading his regiment, he was wounded in the shoul- der, was afterwards taken prisoner, and was subsequently exchanged. In 1863 he was elected colonel of his regiment. He was wounded at the battle of Giles Court House, in 1864; and in the battle of Winchester, in the same year, he was killed while leading his brigade into action. Gen. Jubal A. Early said of him : "He was a most gallant and efficient officer, and his loss was deeply felt." He married, September 8, 1855, Susan Thornton Glassell, daughter of Andrew Glassell and Susanna Thompson Thornton, his wife.