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 HASCALL

HASCALL

the U.S. military academy from Aug. 3, 1882, till Feb. 1, 1888; was detailed to attend and report upon the manieuvers of the French army in the autumn of 1887; was a member of the board of othcers that prepared the drill reguhitions for infantry, cavalry J, ^ and artillery adapted

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for the use of the U.S. army, Oct. 3, 1891; on duty at the ^ artillery school at

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■-'' . W* departments of artil-

' ' ', ler}', ballistics, chem-

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sives, and jn-actical artillery exercises for /f. C. Ho^UtHOc/^ the second battalion from June 6, 1892, imtil May 37, 1898, when he was appointed briga- dier-general of U.S. volunteers and served in the volunteer army through the Spanish-American war as commander of the 2d brigade of the 2d division of the 7tli army corps.

HASCALL, Daniel, educator, was born in Bennington, Vt., Feb. 24, 1782. In 1785 lie re- moved with his parents to Pawlet, Vt., where he attended the district school in winter and received some private instruction. At the age of eighteen he began teaching, at the same time fitted for college and was graduated from Middlebury in 1806. He taught in Pittsfield, Mass., 180G-08; used his spare time in the studj' of theology; and was pastor of the Baptist church in Elizabeth- town, N.Y., 1808-13. He tlien settled as i^astor of the First Baptist clmrch, Hamilton, N.Y. In addition to his pastoral duties he engaged in teaching and also edited, in part, the Christian Maf/azine. About 1815 he began to receive theo- logical students into his family and through his efforts the Baptist education society of the state of New York was formed in 1817. This resulted in the establishment of the Hamilton literary and theological institution, which afterward became Madi.son university. Until 1828 lie continued as pastor and teaclier when he resigned to give his time to the institution and the Baptist education society. In 1835 he left the institution and took charge of an academy at Florence, N.Y. He was pa.storat West Rutland, Vt., 1837-48; at Lebanon, N.Y.. 1848-49, and then returned to Hamilton, N.Y., where he spent the rest of his life. He publislied several sermons and pamphlets. He dicfl in Haii.iltMii, NY., June 2H, 1852.

HASCALL, Milo Smith, soMier, was born in Le Roy. N.Y.. Aug. 5, 1829; son of Amasa and Phebe Ann Hascall. He was brought up on his

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father's farm and attended the district school. In 1847 lie settled in Goshen, lud., and was appointed from that state a cadet in the U.S. military acad- emy, where he was graduated in 1852, assigned to the artillery service and served in garrison duty at Fort Adams, R.I., 1852-53. He resigned from the army to take a contract for building ^ — '

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diana & Micliigan Southern railroad in 1854. He was admit- ted to the bar and practised law, serv- ing as prosecuting attorney, and as clerk of courts at Goshen, Ind., 1859-61. He enlisted as a private in a three months' company, was pro- moted captain and aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. T. A. Morris and organized and drilled volunteer regiments at Camp Morton. On June 16, 1861, he was present at the first engage- ment of the war after Sumter where was cap- tured at Philippi the first Confederate flag secured by the Union armj^ in the war, and the next day he was promoted colonel of the 17tli Indiana vol- unteers. He commanded a brigade made up of the 15th and 17th Indiana, and the 6th and 43d Ohio volunteers at Louisville, Ky., December, 1861, and was assigned to Gen. William Nelson's division. He was transferred to the command of a brigade in Gen. T. J. Wood's division, helped to capture Nashville, Feb. 24, 1862, and advanced on Shiloh, April 6, 1862. On April 25, 1862, he was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers and led a brigade in the Tennessee campaign, 1862-63. At Stone's River, Dec. 31, 1862, he was in com- mand of a brigade on the extreme left when the engagement commenced. Gen. T. J. Wood, his division commander, was wounded earlj' in the day and retired, which put him in command of the division and by 10 A.M. of that day he was in command of all the troops left fighting and saved the day and the army from utter rout and ruin. After the battle was over he was sent to Indianapolis to return deserters from Oliio. Indi- ana and Illinois. While thus engaged he was transferred to the army of the Ohio at the request of General Burnside and commanded a division in that army till after the fall of Atlanta. The next day after the battle of Kenesaw Mountain he executed a flank movement which cau.sed the enemy to evacuate that stronghold and retreat precipitately across the Chattahoochee river. He was very prominent in all the engagements