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court under the superintendence of a marshal of France, who prepared him for admission to St. Cyr military academy. The revolution of 1830 changed his course and when his father resigned from the army he entered the college at Orleans and was graduated B. es L. in 1834 and at Poitiers in 1838. His father died in 1840 and he became Baron de Trobriand. In 1841 he visited America, there he met Mary Mason, daughter of Isaac Jones, president of the Chemical bank of New York city, and they were mar- ried in Paris, France, in January, 1843, and at once joined the court of Henry V., the Bourbon heir to the throne of France, then an exile in Italy. In 1848 or 1849, at the request of his father-in-law, the couple took up their residence in America and Baron de Trobriand established the JBerwe du Nouveau Monde in New York. In 1851 he was obliged to return to France and the review was discontinued. The death of Mr. Jones, his father-in-law, in 1854, determined his permanent settlement in New York and he became connected with the Courier des Etats Unis. He became an American citizen in 1861 and commanded the 55th New York vol- unteers (Gardes Lafayette) in the army of the Potomac. He was transferred, Dec. 21, 1862, to the command of the 38th N.Y. volunteers and commanded a brigade in the 3d corps. He en- gaged in all the battles from Yorktown to and after Gettysburg and on the second day held the peach orchard, the central post of General Sickles's line. He was honorably mustered out of the service, Oct. 15, 1863. In January, 1864, he was appointed to the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers and accepted the commission, May 2, 1864. In May and June, 1864, he commanded the defences of New York city. He then re- turned to Virginia and was a brigade conimander in the 3d corps, engaging in the battles at Deep Bottom, Petersbm-g, Hatcher's Run and Five Forks. He commanded the 3d division of the 2d corps in the final campaign ending in the sur- render of Lee's army at Appomattox. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, April 9, 1865, for " highly meritorious services during the campaign terminating with the surrender of the insurgent army under Gen. R. E. Lee," and was the only Frenchman except Lafayette to hold that rank in the United States army. When the

volunteer annj' was disbanded he returned to France. While there he wrote "Four Years with the Army of the Potomac " in the French language and it was published in Paris and trans- lated into English. Returning to America in 1866 he was commissioned colonel of the 31st U.S. infantry, July 28, 1866, accepting the commission Oct. 31, 1866. and on March 2, 1867, was brevetted brigadier -general in the regular army " for gal- lant and meritorious services during the war." He commanded the district of Dakota in 1867; was transferred to the command of the 13th infantry, March 15, 1869, and commanded the district of Montana and subsequently the district of Green River, Wyoming. He conquered a peace with the Piegan Indians in 1870 and pre- vented a threatened outbreak of the Mormons the same year. In 1874 he was ordered to New Orleans to suppress election troubles. In Janu- ary, 1875, he dispersed the McEnery legislature under orders from Washington, but the duty was performed with tact and firmness and he won the respect of the opponents to the measure. He remained in command in New Orleans until March 20, 1879, when having reached the age limit, he was retired on his own apjilication. He inherited the title of count in 1874, and became head of his family, but he never carried his title in the United States. General de Trobriand was a second cousin of Simon Bolivar, the " Wash- ington of South America," their grancbnothers having been sisters. He resided in New Orleans, spending his summers alternately in France and with his daughter, Mrs. Charles A. Post, at Bay- port, N.Y., where he died, July 15, 1897.

DETWILLER, Henry, pioneer homoeopathist, was born at Langeubruck, Basle, Switzerland, Dec. 18, 1795. In 1808 he entered L'Institute fran^ais de Ste. Im- mier, and in the spring of 1814 became a student at the medical school of the University of Frei- burg, Baden, where he remained three years. In 1817 he re- solved to visit Amer- ica, expecting to devote four years to the collecting of geo- logical, mineralogical and botanical speci- mens, and he em- barked at Rotterdam

on the ship John of Baltimore, having professional charge of 400 passengers. While visiting Phila- delphia he was persuaded by Bonaparte, Van- damme, Meneges and other companions of the

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