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army, which was on the north side of the Rappa- hannock. In 1863 lie was assigned to the command of the cavalry of the army of the Cum- berland, and was commissioned major-general of volunteers, the commission being placed in his hands a few minutes before his death, which occurred at Washington. D. C, Dec. 16, 1863.

BUFORD, Napoleon Bonaparte, soldier, was born in Woodford county, Ky., Jan. 13, 1807. He was graduated from West Point in 1827, studied law at Harvard by permission of the gov- ernment, was assistant professor of natural and experimental philosophy at West Point, 1834-'3o, and resigned from the army in 1835. He was employed by the state of Kentucky as civil engi- neer ; engaged in the iron business, and became a banker and railroad president in Illinois. He entered the Union army in 1861 as colonel of the 27th Illinois volunteers; was present at the en- gagement at Belmont, Mo., Nov. 7, 1861 ; occupied Columbus, Ky., in March, 1862; took Union city, was in command of the garrison at Island 10 after that fort was captured, and was present at Fort Pillow, April, 18(52. April 15, 1862, he was promoted brigadier - general, was present at the siege of Corinth, September, 1862; the battle of Corinth, October 3 and 4, 1863; the siege of Vicksburg, 1863; was stationed in command at Cairo, 111., from March to September, 1863, and from Sept. 12, 1863 to March 9, 1865, at Helena, Ark. He was brevetted major-general of volun- teers. March 13, 1865, and was mustered out of the volunteer service the follo^\-ing August. He served as special U. S. Indian commissioner in 1868, having been appointed in 1867 by the gov- ernment to inspect the Union Pacific railroad, and served until the road was completed in 1869. He died March 28, 1883.

BUIST, Henry, lawyer, was born at Charles- ton, S. C, Dec. 25, 1829, son of George Buist, a member of the Charleston bar and judge of the probate court, and grandson of Rev. George Buist, D. D., a distinguished Presbyterian divine. He was graduated from South Carolina college and was admitted to the bar. He practised his profession at Charleston in association with Charles Macbeth ; and on the decease of his part- ner took his brother, Hon. G. Buist, into partner- ship. Mr. Buist was a member of both the upper and lower houses of the state legislature for several terms, and served in the Confederate army during the civil war as captain in the 27th S. C. infantry, being taken prisoner at Petersburg, Va., and held for many months. He died June 9, 1887.

BULFINCH, Charles, architect, was born, prob- ably near Boston, Mass., Aug. 8, 1763, son of Thomas Bulfinch, a physician, who in that year conducted a small-pox hospital in that city. After his graduation from Harvard college in 1781,

he went abroad, and becoming interested in archi- tecture, he decided to give his time entirely to that work. In 1786 he returned to the United States and settled in Boston, where he became a successful and widely known architect. He de- signed the principal buildings of the city of Boston, including the state-house, the city hall, Faneuil

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hall and many theatres and churches. In 1817 he went to Washington, where he drew the plans and superintended the construction of the national capitol, being engaged upon that work for thirteen years. He returned to Boston in 1830, and died there April 15, 1844.

BULFINCH, Stephen Greenleaf, clergyman, was born in Boston, Mass., June 18, 1809, son of Charles Bulfinch, architect. He was graduated from Columbian college, Washington, in 1826, and later from the divinity school at Cambridge, Mass. He was ordained to the Unitarian minis- try, and in 1830 settled over a parish in Augusta, Ga., where he preached for seven years. He afterwards removed to Pittsburg, Pa., and in 1839 to Washington. D. C., remaining there until 1845, when he took charge of a church at Nashua, N. H.. removing to Boston in 1852. He wrote numerous religious poems and published Con- templations of the Saviour (1832) ; Poems (1834) ; Tlie Holy Land and its Inhahitants (1834) ; Laya of the Gospel (1835) ; Com- munion Thoughts (1852) ; The Harp and the Cross (1857) ; Honor, or the Slave-Dealer's Da lighter (1864) ; Manual of the Evidences of Christianity (1806) ; and Studies in the Evi- dences of Christianity (1869). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 12. 1870.

BULKELEY, Morgan Gardiner, governor of Connecticut, was born at East Haddam, Conn., Dec. 26, 1838, son of Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, lawyer and first president of the JEtna life in- surance company of Hartford. His direct ances- tor, the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, emigrated from England in 1634. Another ancestor, the Rev. Gershom Bulkeley, was a noted historian. In 1846 his family removed to Hartford, Conn., where he received a high-school education, and in 1853