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bishop Corrigan consented to reinstate Father McGlynn and place him in charge of a parish. Archbishop Corrigan's greatest work was the ■erection of parishes and schools and the intro- duction of new religious communities. In 1891

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he decided to build the Seminary of St. Joseph at Dunwoodie, near Yonkers, N.Y., and from that| time to September, 1896, when the seminary was opened for the reception of students, he collected over §700,000 for the erection of the building. The sum was largely made up from contributions from poor but zealous Catholics. He also donated the sum of §100,000 from his own private for- tune, for the construction of a chapel for the seminary, and completed the spires of the grand St. Patrick's cathedral, on 5th avenue, New York city. In 1895 he applied to Rome for a coadjutor M'hen the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Farley was appointed assistant bishop of New York. In May, 1898, he celebrated with great ceremony the twenty-fifth anniversary of his consecration as a bishop. He died in New York city, May 5, 1903.

CORSE, John Murray, soldier, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., April 27, 1835, while his father's family was en route to Burlington, Iowa, where they settled and where the son was educated.

He was graduated from the U.S. mili- tary academy in 1854 but did not enter the service. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1859 ; was the unsuc- cessful Democratic candidate for gov- ernor of Iowa in 1860, and in 1861 en- tered the Federal army as major of the 6th Iowa regiment. He served with Fre- mont in Missouri, was on Gen. John Pope's staff at the siege of New Madrid, in the battle of Farmington, and in the Corinth campaign. He was then transferred to the divi-

sion of Gen. W. T. Shierman, promoted lieutenant- colonel, and acted as colonel in the Memphis and Holly Springs campaign, and with Grant at Vicksburg. He was promoted brigadier-general Aug. 11, 1863, and commanded the 4th division loth army corps at Collinsville, Tenn., where he rescued Sherman's division which was surrounded by the Confederate cavalry under General Chal- mers. He made a night attack across Lookout mountain and returned to command Sherman's assaulting column at Missionary Ridge, Novem- ber 25, when he was carried from the field with a broken leg. In the spring of 1864 he was ap- pointed inspector-general on the staff of General Sherman and served through the Atlanta cam- paign. When Logan succeeded McPherson, Corse was made commander of the 2d division, 16th army corps. During the siege of Atlanta while Corse, though severely wounded, was holding Allatoona Pass against fearful 'odds, Sherman signalled to him the historic message, " Hold the fort for I am coming." General Corse had been able to bring up from Rome but a portion of one brigade and with only 1500 men he defended the pass against the repeated assaults of the Confed- erates and drove them back, capturing 500 prison- ers besides the wounded left upon the field, while he lost of his garrison over 700. This exploit, which won for him the rank of major-general of volunteers, was made the subject of a genera] order from Sherman, showing particularly the importance of defending a fortified post to the last, without regard to the strength of the at- tacking force. He continued in command of the 4th division, 15th army corps, on the march to the sea and at the close of the war was placed in command of the northwest, with headquarters at St. Paul, where he conducted a successful cam- paign against the Indians. He declined promo- tion as lieutenant-colonel of the 27th U.S. infantry and retired from the service, engaging in railroad building in Chicago. He was made collector of the i^ort by President Johnson and in 1869 -was removed by President Grant. He then spent several years in Europe, located in Boston in 1877, and was appointed postmaster of the city by President Cleveland, Oct. 9, 1886. He was removed by President Harrison in March, 1891. He was married in 1857 to Ellen Edwards Prince, and their son Edwards Corse became a railroad manager in the west, and died in 1893. By his sec- ond wife Frances McNeil, a niece of Franklin Pierce, he had one son, Murray Pichot. General Corse died in Winchester, Mass., April 27, 1893.

CORSE, Montgomery Dent, soldier, was born in Alexandria, Va., March 14, 1816. At the be- ginning of the war with Mexico, he joined a local company as captain and served with distin- guished bravery until the close of the war. He