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havint: bt>en iletaileil by the war department to orv'Hiiize ooldreti triX)|)s. he enlisted, equipi^ed. drilled and sent to the field seven regiments, in doing which he o[)ened three slave prisons in Baltimore and freed a large number of slaves belonging to Confederate offirers. His numerous enlistments left few able-lxxiieil slaves in Mary- land, and linstene«l the alxilition of slavery in that .'^tate. After the defeat of the Union troops at C)lustei\ Fla., l^ing place<l in command of that district, he made a secret and rapid move- ment by Black Creek to the rear of the Confed- eral*? stronghold at the Biildwin railroad crossings, forced the troops holding it to retire by night into Georgia, and took the works with military stores and arms. He took jiart in numerous skirmishes and in the principal battles in Vir- ginia, including the tirst and second Bull Run, Petersburg. Fretiericksburg. Chantilly and Chan- cellorsville. In the army he was known as a skilful tactician, a vigilant and trustworthy officer, and a disciplinarian, eflFecting the best results by strictness without severity. In 1853 he founded and for two years edited the Register, a daily paper at Philadelphia, and led the suc- cessful movement for the consolidation of the numerous separate " liberties " of tliat city into one municipal government. He appeared about tliat time on the lecture platform in the best courses in several of the large cities. He was for about four years attorney for the District of Columbia, Washington, D. C. His numerous anonymous contributions to the press include the fortnightly letters from Washington, signed " Elscott Holt.'" published for several years in the New York Examiner. He was a collaborator in " Waite's History of the Church, for the First Two Centuries of the Christian Era." In January, 1890. he published "James G. Birney's Life and Times, the G«ne.sis of the Republican Party," a politico-biographical work.

BISBEE, Marvin Davis, educator, was born at ClK^'iter. Vt.. June 21, 1845. He received an academic e<lu(ation. and in 1871 was graduated from Dartmouth college, later studying theology at the Andover theological seminary. From 1874 to 1881 he preached, first in the Congregational church at Pennacook, N. H., and then in the Chapel church at Cambridgeport. Mass. He be- came erlitor of the Congregatioualist in 1881, and remaine<l in that position for five years, resigning to accept the chair of bibliography at Dartmouth college. He made frefjuent contributions of prose and verse to reviews, magazines, and newspapers. He edited a volume of verse entitled "Songs of the Pilgrims"; and also a "Bibliography of Dartmouth College and Hanovpf" rWU ).

BISCOE, Ellen B., (See HoUia, Ellen L.)

BISHOP, Anne (Madame Anna Bishop), vocalist, was born in London, June 12, 1814. Her father, a drawing-master named Riviere, gave her a good musical education, and in 1824 she was elected a student at the Royal academy of music, where she remained until, in 1831, she became the second wife of Henry Rowley Bishop, the celebrated English comix).ser, after which she sang at the Philharmonic concerts, at Vauxhall, at oratorios, and at country festivals. In 1839 she left her husband and her three little children, eloping with Bochsa, a harpist, who liad been the leader of an orchestra in London. By his advice she devoted herself to Italian music, and with him she visited the principal towns in Europe, and sang at more than two hundred and fifty concerts, taking St. Petersburg, Novgorod and Odessa on her route. From 1843 to 1846 she sang in Italy with great success. Madame Bisliop next visited America, where she was at first coldly re- ceived on account of her connection with Bochsa, but her genius won her recognition and she became a great favorite with the music-loving public. Her next trip took her to Australia, where Bochsa died in 1855. Her husband. Sir Henry Bishop, who was knighted by the queen in 1842, the first musician so honored, also died in April of the same year. In 1856 she married a New York merchant, Martin Schultz, ^^■ith whom she visited Lima, Chili, and Peru, crossing the Andes and meeting with numerous adven- tures. In 1866 she was shipwrecked while on her way from Honolulu to China, and after many hardships was rescued by a ship bound for Manilla, where she sang, as she did later in China. Owing to the loss of her voice, in 1868, she retired into private life. Expatriated by her irretrievable misstep, she visited nearly all parts of the world and died in New York city, March 18, 1884.

BISHOP, Joseph Bucklin, journalist, was born on a farm in Seekonk, Mass. (afterwards East Providence. R. I.), Sept. 5, 1847. He was graduated from Brown university in 1870, paying his expenses through college by teaching school and reporting for Providence newspapers. He entered the office of the New York Tribune as & reporter in the fall of 1870, and in .six months was promoted to the editorial staff, of which he continued a member for thirteen years, resigning in Augu-st. 1883, to accept a position as editorial writer on the New York Evening Post. He was made American correspondent of the London Daily Xeics in 1881. and contributed to the Cen- tury, Scrihner's. Forum, and other magazines on topics relating to political science, including bal- lot reform, and corrupt practice legislation. He is the author of "Money in City Elections" (1887), and " Cheap Money " (1892).