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batteries of Vicksburg. They were placed in seven prisons, and finalh' escaped together from Salisbury, N. C, after twenty mouths of confine- ment. In making their escape they marched by night in the dead of winter nearly four hundred miles, over the mountains, to Strawberry Plains in Tennessee. Subsequently Mr. Browne lectured on the war and prison life, and was editorially connected with the New York Tribune, and later with the New York Times. He was New York correspondent at different times of the leading newspajiers in the country, and a contributor to the principal magazines. He is the author of Four Years in Secessia, The Great Metropolis, Sights and Sensations in Europe, and several v(jluiues on the French revolution. He died in New York city, April 2, 1902.

BROWNE, Thomas Haynes Bayly, represen- tative, was born at Accomack Court House, Va., in 1844. He entered the Confederate army as a private at the beginning of the civil war in 1861, and was present at Lee's surrender in 1865. Sub- sequently he studied law at the University of Virginia, was graduated in 1867, commenced practice at Accomack, and in 1873 became state's attorney for his county. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1884, and was a representative in the 49th, 50th and 51st congresses from 1885 to 1891, being defeated as a candidate for the 52d Congress. He served on the commerce, pensions and expenditures in the navy department committees. He died at Acco- mack, Va., Aug. 19. 1892.

BROWNE, Thomas M., representative, was born at New Paris, Ohio, April 19, 1829. He re- moved to Indiana in 1844, and was admitted to the bar in 1849. In 1855 he was elected prosecut- ing attorney for his judicial district, holding the office until 1859. He was secretary of the state senate of Indiana in 1861. and was elected to a seat in that body from Randolph county in 1863. He entered the army as lieuten- ant-colonel of the 7th Indiana cavalry, was promoted colonel, and in 1865 was commissioned brigadier-general by brevet. "Was United States attorney for the district of Indiana from 1869 to 1873, when he resigned to become the Republican candidate for governor of Indiana, and was de- feated in the election by Thomas A. Hendricks. He was elected a representative from the sixth Indiana district to the 45th Congress in 1876. and was re-elected to the six succeeding congresses, on the Republican ticket.

BROWNE, William Hand, author, was born in Baltimore, Md.. Dec. 31, 1828, son of Wilham and Patience (Hand) Browne. He studied medi- cine at the University of Maryland, and was graduated in 1850, but did not engage in the practice of that profession. He was junior edi-

tor of the Southern Review, 1867-68, and editor of the Southern Magazine, 1871-'75. He was made a member of the Maryland historical society and edited numerous volvimes of the "Maryland Archives." He was for many years professor of Enghsh literature in Johns Hopkins university. His first books were: ''Life of Alexander H. Stephens," and a " Historical Sketch of Enghsh Literature." written in conjunction with Richard M. Jolinston. He afterwards wrote: Maryland, iu the Cominonwealth series: George and Cecilius Calvert, iu the Makers of America series; the Clarendon Dictionari/ of the English Language, and Selections from the Early Scottish Poets, He translated Greece and Rome, by Jakob von Falke (1882), and other works from the German and French, and is the author of mauy critical and literary papers.

BROWNELL, Henry Howard, author, was born in Providence, R. I., Feb. 6, 1820. He was graduated at Trinity college in 1841, and taught school for a ntimber of years at Hartford. At the beginning of the civil war he turned into rhyme the "General Orders" by which com- mander Farragut directed the movements of his fleet when preparing for the attack on New Orleans; and these verses, Avhich were extensively copied by the newspapers of the day, reaching the eyes of Farragut, a correspondence between that hero and the poet was commenced in which Brownell expressed a desire to be present at a naval engagement, and Farragut, in order to gratify him, appointed him acting ensign on his flagship, the Hartford. During the New Orleans and Mobile engagements the ensign-poet was busy taking notes of the details of the battles, and The River Fight and the Bay Fight, two of liis finest poems, are descriptions of the scenes of which he was a witness. He published a volume of poems in 1847, The People's Book of Ancient and Modern History (1851); The Discoverers, Pioneers and Settlers of North and South America (1853), and Lyrics of a Day, or News- paper Poetry, by a Volunteer of the U.S, Ser- vice. He died iu East Hartfo^'d, Conn., Oct. 31, 1872.

BROWNELL, Thomas Church, 8d bishop of Connecticut, and 19th in succession in the Ameri- can episcopate, was born at Westfield, Mass., Oct. 19, 1779. He taught in a common school at the age of twelve, but was not able to complete his preparation for college till he was twenty -one. In 1800 he entered the coUege of Rhode Island, from which he removed, with President jNIaxcy, to Union college in 1802, and was graduated there in 1804 with the highest honors of his class. While in college he studied theology under Rev. Dr. EUphalet Nott, who became president of Union in 1804, and he made young Brownell