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Union army June •■?!. 18G0, and was made 1st lieutenant in the 1st Washington Territory infan- try-, lie was mustered out of the volunteer ser- vice, April 1, 18G5, was appointed 2d lieutenant in the regular army, Aug. 30, 1866, and served as line otticer in the 9th U.S. infantry. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, Jan. 2, 1869. and was assigned to the 12th U.S. infantry, Jan. 1, 1871, and to the commissary subsistence department, Jan. 23, 1874. He was promoted major, March 12, 1892. lieutenant-colonel, Jan. 26, 1897, colonel, March 11, 1898, and brigadier-general. May 3, 1898, serving as assistant commissary-general and commissarj'-general, in which latter capacity he served through the Spanish-American war, 1898. In 1899 he was court-martialed for remarks reflecting on his superior officer. General Miles, made before the War investigation commission, and was sentenced to suspension from duty for six years, immediateh' after which, on his own petition, he was placed on the retired list.

E.\QLE, Henry, naval officer, was born in New York city, April 7, 1801. His father was a native of Dublin. Ireland, and volunteer major in the U.S. army in the war of 1812, commanding a brigade in the defensive operations on Long Isl- and, for the protection of the city of New York. The son entered the U.S. navy in 1818 as mid- shipman on board the Independent, a school ship in Boston harbor. His first sea service was on the Macedonian of the South Pacific squadron, where that ship was fired upon by the Chilian forts. He was subsequently stationed in the Brooklyn navy yard. In 1823 when imder half pay, he was allowed to make a voyage in a mer- chantman to the West Indies and China. Upon his return he cruised in the West Indies in pur- suit of pirates, on board the Enterprise which was wrecked on the uninhabited island, Little Cur- acoa. Returning in a chartered vessel he joined the Erie and sailed for tlae Mediterranean. In 1827 he was commissioned lieutenant and cruised in the Natchez in the West Indies. He then sailed for the South American coast in the Hudson, flag-ship of the squadron. In 1833 he was mar- ried to Minerva, daughter of Sheldon Smith of Bridgeport, Conn. He was attached to the re- ceiving ship, New York, 1833-34; was on the Erie in Brazilian waters, 1834-40; with the Yorktown in the Pacific squadron, 1840-44; commanding the schooner Shark, 1842-44; was commissioned commander, June 4, 1844, and suf^rintended the construction of the Stevens iron batterj-. Hobo- ken, N.J., 1844-46. At the outbreak of the war with Mexico he commanded the yEtna in the gulf squadron. He aided in the cjipture of Frontera, Tabasco, Mexico, and was appointed civil and military governor and collector of the port. After peace was declared he commanded the

Princeton of the home squadron and in 1854 cruised in that ves.sel in search of the sloop-of- war Albany, which had sailed for Aspinwall, Sept. 25, 1854, and was never heard from. He was commissioned captain, Sept. 14, 1855. and in 1861 was placed in command of the gunboat ilonticello at the mouth of the Elizabeth and James rivers, Va., and commanded in the first ruival engagement of the civil war, silencing the Confederate batteries at Sewall's Point, Va., May 19, 1861. As commander of the frigate Santcc he blockaded the ports of Pensacola, Fla., and Gal- veston, Texas, 1861-62, capturing several block- ade runners, including the privateer Boyal Yacht. He was commissioned commodore, July 16, 1862, and on Jan. 1, 1863, having reached the age of sixty-two he was retired by operation of law. He was prize commissioner in New Y'ork, 1864- 65; and inspector of soutliern lighthouses, 1866. He was a commander of the military order of the Loyal Legion and a member of the Mexican vet- erans He died in New York city, Nov. 26, 1882. EAQLE, James Phillip, governor of Arkansas, was born in Maury county, Tenn., Aug. 10, 1837; son of James and Charity (Swaim) Eagle, and grandson of Joseph Eagle, who migrated from North Carolina to Tennessee in 1829. The family removed to Pulaski county, Ark., in 1839, and settled on a farm. In 1861 James Phillip volun- teered in the Confederate service in the 5th Arkansas regiment and was transferred to tlie 2d mounted riflemen. He was promoted lieutenant, captain, major and lieutenant-colonel, and served in the campaigns of the Indian countrj', Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee, including Chickamauga, and North Georgia from Dalton to Atlanta. He was a prisoner in 1862, was woimded before Atlanta, saw his last service at Benton- ville, N.C., and surrendered with Jolmston"s army in 1865. On returning to Arkansas he found his residence destroyed, and building a cabin on its site, he went to work to restore his fortune. He was soon able to purchase several thousand acres of land and although thirty years of age he took a course in college and in 1870 was ordained a Bapti-st minister. In 1872 he was elected as a Democrat a representative in the state legisla- ture, and in 1874 became prominent in the Bax- ter-Brooks contest for possession of the state government, serving in the Baxter forces, and afterward as one of a committee of three to adjust the war claims against the Baxter government. He was a member of the constitutional conven- tion of 1874, which framed a new state constitu- tion. He was again a state representative in 1877 and in 1885, serving the last year as speaker of the hou.se. He was governor of Arkan.sas, 1889-92, and retired in January, 1893, to engage in agricultural pursuits and in work cormected