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in the U.S. army and joined the Confederate army, receiving successive commissions, as lieu- tenant-colonel, colonel and brigadier-general. He was promoted major-general before active hostil- ities began, and as commander of a division was a participant in the battles of Blackburn's Ford, •July 18, and Manassas, July 21, 1861. He then was attached to Gen. T. J. Jackson's corps, and with that commander took part in the several brilliant successes at Front Royal, May 24, Cross Keys, June 8, and Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, that led up to the second battle of Bull Rim, Aug. 30, 1862. At Warrenton Pike, Aug. 28, 1862, he lost a leg, having two days before driven the Federal troops from Manas.sas. He was present in the Maryland campaign, including South Mountain, Sept. 14, and Sliarpsburg, Sept. 17, 1862. When General Jackson was fatally wounded at Chancellorsville, May 5, 1863, that officer requested that General Ewell be promoted lieutenant-general and as- signed to the command of the 2d corps as his suc- cessor. He led the 2d corps at the capture of Winchester, June 14. at Gettysburg, July 1^, 1863 ; at the Wilderness, May 6, and at Spottsylvania, May 13, 1864. He was then retired from active duty on account of physical incapacity and was assigned to command of the department of Rich- mond, Va. On the retreat of General Lee, Ewell was captured at Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865, with his entire force. After the war he removed to Springfield, Tenn., and died there, Jan. 2.'5, 1872. EWER, Ferdinand Cartwright, clergyman, was born in Nantucket, Mass. , May 33, 1836. He was graduated at Harvard in 1848 and the next year went to California, where he engaged in journalism. In 18.52 he determined to take orders in the Protestant Episcopal church, in which he had been baptized while a boy m Nantucket, al- though his parents were Unitarians, and he was ordained a deacon in 1857 and a priest in 1858. He was rector of Grace church, San Francisco, 1858-60, when failing health induced him to return to the east, and he was assistant minister at St. Ann's, New "Vork city, 1860-63, and rector of Christ church, 1862-71. His introduction of rit- ualistic forms in the church services disturbed the conservative members of his congregation, and his followers oi-ganized St. Ignatius church. Here he had full liberty and his church became the exponent of high -church methods in religious worship and ritual. He received the degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1868, and that of S.T.D. from Columbia in 1876. He published: Tiro Epentfnl Nir/hts, or the Fallih-iUtij of Spiritualism Ex- posed (1856) ; Sermons on the Failvres of Protcss- tanlism (1869) ; Catholicity in its lielation to Protestantism andJiomatiism (ISIS) : The Operation of tlie Holy Spirit (1880) ; Grammar of Tlieolor/y (1880). He died in Montreal, Canada, Oct. 10, 1883.

EWERS, Ezra P., soldier, was born in New York city, April 18, 1837. He enlisted in Co. E, 1st battalion, 19th U.S. mfantry, Jan. 18, 1863, serving as private, sergeant and 1st sergeant till Oct. 31. 1863, when he was commissioned 2d lieutenant in the 19th U.S. infantry. He ac- cepted, Dec. 4, 1863, and was promoted 1st lieu- tenant, March 16, 1864. He was brevetted 1st lieutenant, June 36, 1863, for " gallant services in action at Hoover's Gap, Tenn.," and captain, Nov. 25, 1863, for " gallant and meritorious con- duct in the battle of Chattanooga, Tenn." After the close of the civil war he was transferred, Sept. 21, 1866, to the 37th U.S. infantry, having been promoted to the rank of captain, Sept. 13, 1866. He was transferred to the 5th U.S. in- fantry. May 19, 1869, and was promoted to the rank of major, March 7, 1893, having been bre- vetted major, Feb. 27, 1890, for gallant services in the action against the Indians under Crazy Horse on the Tongue river, Montana, Jan. 8, 1877. He was promoted to the rank of lieuten- ant-colonel, April 30, 1897. At the outbreak of the war with Spain he was sent with his regi- ment to Cuba and was in command of the 9th regiment, 3d brigade, 1st division, 5th army corps and directed the brigade in the attack on Fort San Juan July 1, 1898, as senior officer present after reaching the top of the hill, and also in the combined assault of July 1, 3 and 3. The brigade was made up of the 34th, 9th and 13th U.S. in- fantry regiments. The 13th was withdrawn to support the " Rough Riders " early in the after- noon of the fii'st day, leaving Colonel Ewers with only two regiments. The brigade thus weak- ened kept up the assault on the 2d and till nearlj' noon on the 3d, and were under heavy lire from both the artillery and infantry of the enemy. Lieutenant Colonel Ewers was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, July 12, 1898, and received the surrender of the Spanish troops at Caimanara. He was made military governor of Guantanamo after the surrender of the ijlace to him with 6000 Spanish troops, 2,000,000 rounds of ammunition and 6000 rifles, July 25, 1898. In December, 1898, he was assigned to the command of the U.S. troops at San Luis, Cuba.

EWINQ, Charles, jurist, was born in Burling- ton county, N.J., July 8, 1780; son of James Ewing, a commissioner of loans for New Jei'sey and an active Revolutionary patriot. He wa.s graduated with honors from the College of New Jersey in 1798, was admitted to the bar in 1803 and practised at Trenton. He was made a coun- sellor in 1812 and was chief-justice of the state. 1824-33. He was a tru.stee of the College of New Jersey, 1830-33. He received the honorary de- gree of LL.D. from Jefferson college in 1830. He died in Trenton, N.J., Aug. 5, 1833.

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