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ington he was appointed lieutenant-colonel ot the 6th U.S. cavalry on May 14, 1861, and took part in the Peninsular campaign under McClellan. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volun- teers, March 17, 1862, organized the Banks expedi- tion to operate in the southwest and on its arrival at Neiv Orleans, Dec. 23, 1862, he was as- signed to the command of the 19th corps. He co- operated with Farragut's fleet in its operations against Port Huron, and in 1864 was with the Eed River expedition. He was afterward transferred to the army operating in Virginia, where he de- feated Early at Opequan creek, Sept. 19, 1864, and fought in the battles of Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek in September and October of that 3^ear. He commanded the department of West Virginia in 1865, and in January, 1866, was mus- tered out of the volunteer service. He coin- manded the department of Washington, D.C., 1866-71, and the department of the Gulf, 1871-75. He was president of the retiring board, Washing- ton, D.C., till July 1, 1876, when he was retii-ed with the rank of brigadier- genei-al. He received brevets : colonel in the regular army in 1862 for services at Yorktown, Williamsburg and Han- over Court House; major-general of volunteers, July 23, 1864; brigadier-general in the regular service for the Shenandoah campaign, and major- general, U.S. army, October, 1864. He was made full major-general of volunteers, Sept. 25, 1865. He died in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 1887.

EMOTT, James, representative, was born in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., March 14. 1771. He was ad- mitted to the bar in 1792, practising at Ballston Centre, N.Y., and was land commissioner to set- tle disputes of titles to military reservations, in Onondaga county in 1797. He removed to Al- bany, N.Y., in 1800, and was a member of the assembly in 1804. He represented his district as a Federalist in the 11th and 12th congresses, 1809- 13, and his city in the state assembly, 1814-16, and was speaker in 1814. He was the first judge of the court of common pleas of Dutchess count3^ 1817-23, and judge of the New York superior court, second circuit. 1827-31. He resigned in 1831 on reaching liis sixtieth year. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Union college in 1800 and that of LL.D. from Columbia in 1833. He died in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., April 7, 1850.

EMOTT, James, jurist, was born in Pough- keepsie, N.Y., April 23, 1823; son of James Emott. He received his primary education in Pough- keepsie and was graduated at Columbia in 1841. He studied law in Poughkeepsie and began prac- tice in 1844. He was elected the first mayor of Poughkeepsie under its charter, April, 1854, and resigned in January, 1855, to accept a seat on the bench of the New York supreme court, second judicial district. In 1861 he helped to organize

the first volunteer regiment sent out from Dutch- ess county, and in 1862 was made president of the Merchant's bank, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. In 1862 he was made presiding judge of the second judicial district and in 1863 a judge of the New York court of appeals. In 1870 he removed to New York city, where he was a member of the committee of seventy to prosecute the Tweed ring; vice-president of the Union League club and a founder of the New York bar association. He died in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Sept. 11, 1884.

EMPIE, Adam, educator, was born in Schenec- tady. N. Y., Sei^t. 5, 1785; son of John Empie. He was graduated from Union college in 1807 and was ordained a Protestant Episcopal clergy- man in 1809. He was assistant rector at Hemp- stead, Long Island, N.Y., 1809-11; rector at Wilmington, N.C., 1811-14; chaplain and profes- sor at West Point, N.Y., 1814-16, and rector at Wilmington, N.C., 1816-37. In 1837 he was elected president of William and Mary college, and held that office until 1836, when he resigned to become rector of St. James church, Rich- mond, Va. In 1853 he returned to Wilmington, N.C. He was married to Ann Eliza, daughter of Judge Joshua Wright of Wilmington, N.C. He received the degree of D.D. from William and Mary college. He died in Wilmington, N.C, March 6, 1860.

ENDICOTT, John, colonial governor, was born in Dorchester, England, in 1558. He was sent to America in 1628 to take charge of the plantation of the colony at Plymouth, being one of the six patentees of the Dorchester company, which had purchased the rights and privileges of the com- pany in 1637. He brought with him to the col- ony his family and numerous settlers, and located at Naumkeag, where lie founded the first perma- nent town in Massachusetts, afterward known as Salem. He exercised chief authority till April, 1630, when John Winthrop arrived and took charge under the charter of the New England company. He was then made a member of the court of assistants, but in 1634 was reprimanded, removed from office and disfranchised for one year for having publich- cut the red cross of St. George from the king's colors hanging before the governor's gate. He gave as his reason for the act, that the cross savored of popery. The senti- ment spread and soon the cross was omitted on the flag used by the militia of tlie colony. With Capt. John LTnderhill he conducted an inhuman warfare against the Block Island and Pequot In- dians in 1636, which resulted in the Pequot war. He was deputy gOA-ernor six years and governor, 1644, 1649 and 1651-64, with the exception of the year 1654. He was sergeant major-general in 1645 and president of the Colonial commissions, 1685. He showed no mercy toward Roman Citii-