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colonel, being commissioned in March, 1868. lie was woumleil three times during the battle of Chancellorsville. :May 3. 1863, and was officially commended in the rejKirt of General Ramseur for Ills cliivalry and for remaining with liis com- mand till he was exliausted. lie joined his regi- ment in 1864 after their return from Pennsylvania and took part in the battles of the ' > k. .^^ Wilderne.ss and

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for his part in the battle received the thanks of Generals Lee and Ewell on the field. After this battle he was ])ronioted to the command of the brigade com- posed of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 14th and 30t!i N.C. regiments, notwitlistanding the fact that lie was junior colonel. After the battle of Cold Harbor he was detailed to the relief of Lynch- burg, serving in Early's corps and was with that general in the Maryland expedition in the battle of Monocacy and in the Shenandoah campaign of the fall of 1864. He then joined the army of northern Virginia before Petersburg and was uitli Gonlon's corps in the attempt to break the Federal lines at Fort Steadman. He led the division to the last charge at Appomattox and with his brigade was covering the retreat when he was called to the rear. In executing this manttjuver his brigade faced about with the stead- ine.ss of veterans on parade and poured so sudden and deadly a volley into the ranks of the over- wliehning numbers of Federals pressing the retreat, as temporarily to check their attempt to capture the command. He received eleven wounds during his service in the Confederate army and after the surrender resumed the prac- tice of law in Raleigh, N.C. He was president of the Cliatham Coalfield railroad; solicitor of the lialeigh district for six years; cliairman of the Democratic state executive committee for five years; a delegate for the state at large to the Democratic national convention of 1876; ■circuit judge of the 6th judicial district of Xortli Carolina, 1877-80; representative in the 47th, 48th and 49th congresses, 1881-87, and secretary of the United States senate as successor to Gen. Anson G. McCook, serving in the 53d and suc- ceeding congresses. He was married in 18."57 to a

dimghter of James S. Battle of Edgecombe county, and after her death in 1880 he was mar- ried to Fannie A., daughter of the Rt. Rev. T. B. Lyman of Raleigh, N.C.

COXE, Alfred Conkling, jurist, was born in Auhurn, N.V.: .son of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Han- son and Eliza (Conkling) Coxe; and grandson of the Rev. Samuel Hanson and Abiali Hyde (Cleve- land) Cox, and of the Hon. Alfred and Eliza (Cockburn) Conkling. He was prepared for college at the .schools in Utica and at Oxford academy, was graduated at Hamilton college in 1868, studied law and was admitted to the bar the same year. He practised in Utica, 1868-82. He was appointed U.S. district judge for the northern district of New York by President Arthur in the spring of 1882, a position lield by his grandfather, Alfred Conkling, half a century before. He was married in 1878 to Marj-ette, daughter of Judge Charles H. Doolittle of Utica, N.Y. Judge Coxe was appointed a manager of the Utica state hospital by Governor Cornell in 1880. •

COXE, Arthur Cleveland, second bishop of western New York and 74th in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Mendham, N.J., May 10, 1818: son of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Hanson and Abiah Hyde (Cleveland) Cox. * Having early connected himself with the Episco- pal church, as the result .' of earnest study and strong conviction, he passed immediately from the University of the City of New York, where he was grad- uated valedictorian in 1838, to the study of Hebrew and Greek under Prof. Isaac Nordheimer; and in 1840 to the General theological semi- nary, where he com- pleted his course in 1841. He was admitted to the diaconate June 27, 1841, and advanced to the priesthood Sept. 25 .1842. In Sejitember, 1841, he was married to Katherine Cleveland, daughter of Simeon Hyde. He served during his diaconate at St. Ann's, Morri.sania, N.Y. Removing to Hartford, Conn., wliere he was priested, he took charge of St. John's church, remaining there until 18,54, when he became rector of Grace church, Baltimore, Md. In 1851 he visited England and attended

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•The elder sons of the Rev. Dr. Cox restored the earlier form of spelling the family name, i.e, Coxe.