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He landed the expedition at Brazos, Santiago, and forced the Confederates back as far as Loredo, Texas. He subsequently commanded the 13th army corps, the district of Vicksburg, the 16th army corps, the 'districts of West Tennessee and Vicksburg, and the department of the Missis- sippi, consecutively. He resigned from the vol- unteer army. May 27, I860, and engaged in mining in the far west. He was general agent of the American-Russian commercial company of San Francisco in Washington and Alaska, 1866- 71, and superintendent of various railroads in Illinois, 1871-78, and of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, 1878. He was made chief of the old war and navy division, pension depart- ment, in 1893, was promoted first deputy com- missioner of pensions by President Cleveland in 1895, and was removed from the office in 1897, by President McKinley.

DANA, Paul, journalist, was born in New York cit}", Aug. 20, 1852; son of Charles Ander- son and Eimice (Macdaniel) Dana. He attended Gibben's school in New York city, was graduated from Harvard in arts in 1874, and from Columbia in law in 1878. He was appointed major of ord- nance on the staff of Gen. Louis Fitzgerald of the 1st brigade, N.G.S.N. Y. in 1883. and was also made commissioner of public parks in 1891. In 1880 he became connected with the editorial staff of the .S'mji, edited by his father, and in 1897 on the death of his father, succeeded to the editorship of the paper. He was married in 1884 to May D. B., daughter of William Butler and Jane Percy (Sargent) Duncan.

DANA, Richard, patriot, was born in Cam- bridge, Mass., June 26, 1700; third son of Daniel and Naomi (Croswell) Dana, and -grandson of Richard Dana who came from England to Amer- ica by or before 1640, and Anne BuUard, his wife. Richard was graduated from Har- vard in 1718, and de- voted the first years of his life to the law, in which he became a distinguished prac- titioner and magis- trate in Marblehead, Charlestown and Bos- ton. When the Revo- lutionar}' troubles be- gan to agitate the l^lyfl^'^l/i public mind, he took a prominent part in the discussions, frequently presided at the famous town meetings held in Faneuil Hall and in the Old South meeting house, and served with the Adamses, Otis, Quincy, Hancock and

Warren in preparing addresses to the patriots and petitions to the king and parliament. He administered the oath to Secretary Oliver, Dec. 17, 1765, in which the secretary promised not to enforce the stamp act, and by signing the docu- ment as a magistrate, he subjected himself to the penalties of treason. He was married. May 81, 1737, to Lydia, daughter of Thomas Trowbridge, and sister of Judge Edmund Trowbridge. He died in Boston. Mass., May 17, 1772.

DANA, Richard Henry, author, was born in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 15, 1787; son of Francis (1743-1811) and Elizabeth (Ellery) Dana. Rich- ard Henry entered Harvard in the class of 1808 but his participation in the " Rotten Cabbage Rebellion "' of 1807 cavised his dismissal and he received a tardy A. B. degree in 1866. He continued his studies for two j^ears at New- port and then entered upon the studj' of law in the office of Fran- cis Dana Channing in Boston and later with Robert Goodloe Harper in Baltimore, Md. He was admitted to the bar in 1811, and opened an office in Cambridge where he also engaged in poli- tics as a Federalist, and was elected to the state legislature. In 1814 he joined the Antliol- ogy club and became a contributor to the first numbers of the Xorth American Heview in 1815, of which he was editor with Prof. ,E. T. Channing, 1818-19. He established The Idle Man in New York and published six numbers, 1821-22, when it was discontinued for want of support. " The Dying Raven," his first poem, written in 1825, was published by William Cullen Bryant in the Xeio York lieviev, and liis first book " Poems " (1827) was a literary, but not a financial success. In 1833 a volume of his " Poems and Prose Writ- ings " appeared and was partiallj' republished in London in 1844 under the title of " The Bucca- neer and Other Poems. "' " The Buccaneer " was translated into German in 1856. He was brought up a Trinitarian Congregationalist, but afterward joined the Protestant Episcopal church. During the Trinitarian agitation he contributed vigorous articles against Dr. Channing to The Spirit of the Pilgrims, 1825-35. A new edition of " Poems and Prose W^ritings,"' in two volumes, including his principal contributions to the Xovth American Review and making a complete collection of his works, appeared in 1850. He delivered courses of lectures on Shakespeare and the English poets

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