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ARNOLD.ARNOLD. brigadier-general of volunteers. For distinguished services at Port Hudson he was on July 8, 1863, brevetted lieutenant-colonel in the regular army. He commanded a division of cavalry in the Red River expedition led by General Banks in 1864, and later rendered important help in the reduction of Fort Morgan in Mobile Bay, for which he was commissioned brevet major-general of volunteers, Aug. 2, 1864. At the close of the war he received successively the brevets of colonel, brigadier-general and major-general in the regular army. Dec. 5, 1877, he was made acting assistant inspector-general of the department of the East, and was major of the 5th artillery at the time of his death, which occurred at Governor's Island. New York harbor, Nov. 8, 1882. ARNOLD, Richard, violinist, was born at Eilenburg, Prussia, Jan. 10, 1845. His parents immigrated to the United States in 1853, settling at Buffalo and later at Cincinnati, where Richard became the leader of a theatre orchestra at the age of eleven years. He had commenced the study of the violin when he was but four years old, and had played in public before he was seven. In 1864 he returned to Europe, and, entering the class of Ferdinand David at the Leipsic conservatory, spent the three following years in diligent study, graduating at the head of his class in 1867. From 1869 to 1876 he was one of the first violins in Theodore Thomas' orchestra, and from 1878 to 1891 he was the leader and solo violinist of the New York philharmonic club, when he withdrew to give his time to teaching and solo playing. He was elected a member of the philharmonic society in 1879, a director in 1880, concert-meister in 1885 and vice-president in 1896. ARNOLD, Samuel Greene, historian, was born in Providence, R. I., April 12, 1821. His graduation at Brown university in 1841 was followed by two years' service in a Providence counting house, after which he visited Europe, and on his return studied law at the Harvard law school, whence he was graduated an LL.B., in 1845. He then travelled extensively in the Orient, in Europe and in South America, settling down to the practice of his profession upon his return to Providence. In 1852 he was elected lieutenant-governor of Rhode Island as a Whig — the only candidate on that ticket elected. He was again elected to the same office in 1861 and 1862. He was a delegate to the peace convention of 1861, and served as an aide to Governor Sprague with the rank of colonel, commanding a battery of artillery in the early stages of the war. He was chosen U. S. senator to fill the unexpired term of J. F. Simmons, and served from December, 1862, until March, 1863. He afterwards devoted much of his time to historical research. His published works are: "The Spirit of Rhode Island History" (1853); "History of the State of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations" (7 vols., 1859-'60); and a "History of Middleton, R. I." (1876); together with many orations, memorials and public addresses. He died Feb. 13, 1880. ARNOLD, Thomas Dickens, representative, was born in Spottsylvania Co., Va., May 3, 1798. He studied without a teacher and acquired a fair rudimentary education. At the outbreak of the war of 1812 he enlisted, although but fourteen years old, and served until its close. He then studied law, and after his admission to the bar practised at Knoxville, Tenn. In 1830 he was elected a representative to the 22d Congress, and made himself notorious in that body and elsewhere by a very personal speech in which he denounced Senator Houston and Maj. M. A. Heard. The latter, who was present, attacked Mr. Arnold when leaving the capitol in company with over two hundred members, and though armed with a horse-pistol and a cane, both of which he used vigorously. Heard was decidedly worsted in the struggle, and Arnold carried off the horse-pistol as a trophy. General sympathy seemed to be with Mr. Arnold, and he was presented with a sword cane. He was made brigadier-general of the Tennessee militia in 1836, and was a representative in the 27th congress, 1841-'43. He died May 26, 1870. ARNOLD, Warren O., representative, was born in Coventry, R. I., June 3, 1839. He was educated in the public schools, followed mercantile pursuits, 1857-'63, and in 1864 engaged in the manufacture of cotton goods and subsequently in the manufacture of woolens. He was elected to the 50th and 51st congresses from the 2d Rhode Island district, serving, 1887-'91, and was re-elected to the 54th congress, 1895-'97. ARNOLD, William Carlisle, representative, was born in Luthersburg, Pa., July 15, 1851; son of Samuel and Mary (Carlisle) Arnold; grandson of Peter Arnold, and a descendant of the Arnold family which emigrated from England to Connecticut early in the seventeenth century. He was educated in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, was admitted to the bar in 1875, and practised in Clearfield, Pa. He was a Republican representative from the 28th district in 1895-99.