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AIKEN.AINSWORTH. and was in several of the battles fought in front of Richmond. At the battle of Gaines' Mills, he was wounded, and conveyed to a hospital in Baltimore. Among the visiting attendants at the hospital were the two daughters of the editor of the Baltimore American, and the wounded young Frenchman came under their ministrations. The soldier fell in love with one of his nurses, and on Dec. 13, 1864, married her. On recovering from his wound, Lieutenant Agnus received his commission as captain, went to New York, where he assisted in raising the 2d Duryee Zouaves, of which he commanded the color company. The regiment was ordered to Louisiana in the fall of 1862, and garrisoned at New Orleans and Baton Rouge. On May 27, 1863, Captain Agnus was again wounded during the siege of Port Hudson, and was promoted major. Following the defeat of Port Hudson, the regiment was actively engaged in Louisiana; and in a skirmish at Fayetteville, while checking a charge, Major Agnus had a hand-to-hand fight with a Texan horseman, and received a severe sabre cut. He took part in the expedition to Sabine Pass, Texas, acting as commander of the "Pocahontas." The War Department having issued an order requiring regiments with decimated ranks to consolidate, Major Agnus went to New York and induced Governor Seymour to assign to his regiment four full companies of recruits; he was made lieutenant-colonel. He was with his regiment in the battles of Opequan, Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill, and Winchester; was a personal witness of "Sheridan's ride," and was chosen to guard the Confederate prisoners at Fort Delaware, where he was given the brevet rank of colonel. He was brevetted brigadier-general on the removal of his regiment to Savannah, Ga., early in 1865, he being then only twenty-six years of age. He was detailed as inspector-general of the Department of the South, and commissioned to dismantle the Confederate forts in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. On Aug. 22, 1865, he resigned from the army and was appointed assistant assessor of Internal Revenue at Baltimore, but in a short time was invited to take charge of the business department of the Baltimore American, by Charles C. Fulton, Sr., its proprietor, whose daughter he had married. He thus became manager of the leading Maryland commercial newspaper. AIKEN, Charles Augustus, educator, was born at Manchester, Vt., Oct. 30, 1827, and was graduated from Dartmouth college in 1846, at the age of nineteen, and from Andover theological seminary in 1853. He was professor of Latin in Dartmouth college from 1859 to 1866, and at Princeton till 1869. He became president of Union college June 28, 1870, having discharged the duties of the office during the preceding year. In 1871 he accepted the Stuart professorship of the relation of philosophy and science to the Christian religion, and of Oriental and Old Testament literature in Princeton theological seminary, which he held until his death. He was editor of the Princeton Review, and a contributor to other periodicals. In 1870 he translated and edited "The Proverbs of Solomon Theologically and Homiletically Expounded." He died at Princeton, N.J., Jan. 14, 1892. AIKEN, William, governor of South Carolina, was born in Charleston, S. C, Aug. 4, 1806. He was graduated from the college of South Carolina in 1825, and engaged in the cultivation of rice. He was always prominent in public matters, though not a politician, and after serving a number of terms in both branches of the state legislature he was elected governor in 1844. In 1850 he was elected a representative and served in the 32d Congress and he was returned to the 33d and 34th Congresses. Throughout the civil war he was a loyal Unionist, though his friends were nearly all Secessionists. In 1866 he was elected to represent his district in the 40th Congress, while the state was under a provisional governor, and he was not seated. He died Sept. 7, 1887. AIKMAN, William, clergyman, was born in New York city, Aug. 12, 1824, son of Robert and Sarah (Smith) Aikman. He was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1846, receiving the degree D.D. in 1869; attended the Union theological seminary, 1846-'9; was pastor of various Presbyterian churches, serving that at Atlantic City, N. J., from 1883. He was moderator of the synod of Pennsylvania in 1863; a trustee of Wells female college, 1878-82, and author of: "Our Country, Strong in Her Isolation" (1851); "Seductive Powers of the Romish Church" (1860); "The Future of the Colored Race" (1862); "Government and Administration" (1863); "Commerce and Christianity" (1864); "Life at Home" (1870); "Moral Power of the Sea" (18—); "The Altar in the House" (1880); "Heavenly Recognitions" (1882), and "Talks on Married Life" (1883). AINSWORTH, Frederick Crayton, soldier, was born at Woodstock, Vt., Sept. 11, 1852; son of Crayton and Harriet (Carroll) Ainsworth; grandson of Roswell Moulton Ainsworth, and a descendant of Edward Ainsworth of England, and Woodstock, Conn. He received the degree of M.D. at the University of the city of New York, and was appointed from Vermont assistant surgeon in the U.S. army, Nov. 10, 1874. He was promoted assistant surgeon with the rank of captain, Nov. 10, 1879; surgeon with the rank of major, Feb. 27, 1891; chief of the record and