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nine heavy guns, was captured by the Confeder- ates at Stouo Inlet, Jan. '20, 18G2, he assumed command of the formidable gunboat and re- named it the StuHo, using it as a guard boat in Charleston harlxir. The siiine year he became in- sjine. He died in Paris. Fraiu-e, March 31, 1868.

HARTSUFF, George Lucas, soldier, was born in Tyre. X.V., May 28, 18o0. lie removed with his parents to Michigan and was educated there. He was graduated from the U.S. military acad- emy in 1852; was brevetted 2d lieutenant and jissigued to the 4th U.S. artillery, serving in Texiis, and in Florida in the Seminole war where he was wounded. He was instructor in artillery and infantry tactics in the military academy, 18.')G-0I. He was regularly promoted and in 181 ranked as captain and was made assistant adju- tJintgeneral. He was promoted major, Jul}* 17, 1802; was made a brigadier-general in the volun- teer army. April 15, 1862; major-general of vol- unteers. Nov. 29, 1862; took command of the 23d corps. April 27, 1863; was promoted lieutenant- colonel and assistant adjutant-general, U.S.A., June 1. 1864; and brevet brigiJier- and major- general U.S.A., Marcii 13, 18o"). He served at Fort Pickens, Fla., from April to July, 1861; in West Virginia under Rosecrans from Juh', 1861, to April, 1862; in command of Abercrombie's brig- ade at Cedar Mountain, and at Antietam where he was severely wounded while leading a charge at Dunker Church, Sept. 17, 1862; and on the board to revise the rules and articles of war, 1863. He was commander of the 23d corps in Kentucky, 1863-64, where he opposed the advance of Morgan in Ohio; in command of works in the siege of Petersburg. Va, March and Ajn-il. 1865; and adjutant-general, 5th military district, 1867- 68, and of the division of Missouri, 1869-71. He was retired for disability from wounds received in battle June 29, 1871, and died in New York city. May 16. 1874.

HARTT, Charles Frederick, naturalist, was born in Fredericton, N.S.. Aug. 23, 1840; son of JarvLs William Hartt, educator. He was gradu- ated at Acadia college in 1860; made extensive geological explorations in Nova Scotia, 1856-60; and established in connection with his father a high school at St. John, N.B. He continued his geological explorations in New Brunswick and gave especial attention to the geological forma- tions found in the Devonian shales, the oldest known in science. His work attracted the atten- tion of Louis Aga.ssiz who invited him to Cam- bridge where he entered the museum of comparative anatomy and was a student under Profes.sor Agas:siz, 1861-64. He was assistant in the geological survey of New Brunswick, 1864-65, and a member of the Thayer expedition to Brazil in 186")-66 which was the beginning of his inves

tigation of natural history in South America. This expedition resulted in his " Geology and Physical Geography of Brazil" (1870). He was professor of natural history in Vassar college, 1868; professor of geology and physical geography in Cornell university, 1868-78; and chief of the geo- logical commission of the Empire of Brazil, 1874- 78. His collection in the National museum is the

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most complete repository of South American geology in the world. He was director of the Na- tional museum from 1876, and a member of various scientific societies including the Ameri- can association for the advancement of science, of which he was elected general secretary in 1869. He published Contributions to the Geology and Physical Geography of the Lower Amazon (1874). He died of yellow fever in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 18. 1878.

HARTWELL, Alfred Stedman, lawyer, was born at Dedham, Mass., June 11, 1836. He was graduated at Harvard in 1858; was a tutor at Washington university, St. Louis, 1858-61. and in the latter jear enlisted as a corporal in the 3d regiment, Missouri volunteers. In 1863 he was commissioned 1st

lieutenant, 44th Mas- sachusetts regiment; in 1863, a captain, 54th Massachusetts volunteers and in IMay of the same year, lieutenant colo- nel, 55th Massachu- setts volunteers. AVith this regiment he went to South Carolina, where he was promoted to be its colonel, Dec. 1, 1863. On Dec. 30, 1864. for good conduct at the l)attle of Honey Hill. S.C, he was brevetted bi-igadier-general. U.S. vf)lunteers. He served in South Carolina and Florida until the close of tiie war, after which he was i)laced in command of interior districts of South Carolina Being mus- tered out of the service. April 3, 1866. he returned to Massachusetts and in the same year was elected

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