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ginia, June, 1861, commanding: a brigade of SoOO men and six guns at Aquia Creek and afterward forming the reserve brigade under Beauregard in the battle of Bull Run and in the eainpaign of northern Virginia. lie gained pi'oniotion to the rank of major-gen- eral and in tiie seven d;iys' battles before I{ieiunt>nd he com- manded a division in Magruder's com- mand. After the change of McClellan's base, General Holmes was transferred to the command of the trans-Mississipiii army and established his headquarters at Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 12,1862. He was at the same time pro- moted to the rank of lieutenant-general and on Nov. 11. 1802, lie was ordered to abandon hispro- po.sed Missouri expedition and send 10.000 men to Vicksburg to oppose the attack by General Grant. In February, 1863, acting on a suggestion made by General Holmes, President Davis placed Gen. E. Kirby Smith in command of the department to organize a government and open communica- tion with Europe by way of Galveston, Texas, and thus provide for a confederacy bej'ond the Mis- sissippi in case of defeat in the Atlantic states. General Holmes assumed active field service and by order of General Smitli conducted the advance on Helena, where he behaved with great gal- lantry, July 3, 1803. He was defeated by Gen. B. M. Prentiss, commander of the post, and con- tinued to serve under General Smith. He wit- nessed a general commercial prosperity in the district, with the re-establishment of factories and furnaces and a considerable trade with Europe in cotton and machinery. In Iy64he was placed in command of the North Carolina senior and junior reserves with headquarters at Raleigh. After the surrenders of Lee and Johnston, finding no support to come from the east, the western army was the last to capitulate. General Holmes returned to his home in North Carolina, and died near Fayetteville, N.C., June 21, 1880.

HOLMES, Uriel, representative, was born in East Ha.Main, Conn., Aug. 20, 1764; son of Uriel and Statira (Cone) Holmes; grandson of Chris- topher and Sarah (Andrews) Holmes and of Jonah and Elizabeth (Gates) Cone; great-grandson of John anil Mary (Willey) Holmes, and greats-grand- son of Thomas Holmes, who came to Virginia from London during the " great ])lagne " in 106.5 and later removed to New York state, where he

married Lucretia, daughter of Thomas Dudley, of Loudon, England. They settled in New London, Conn., and after her death he removed to East lladdam. Uriel was graduated from Yale in 1784 and settled in Litchfield, Conn., as a lawyer. He was married, Oct. 24, 1794, to Esther, daughter of the Hon. Aaron and Sarah (Kellogg) Austin. He was. a representative in the Coimecticut legislature nine terms; was a judge of the Litch- field county court, 1814-17, and in 1817 he was elected a representative from Connecticut in the l.ltli congress. He resigned his seat in 1818. He died in Canton, Conn., May 18, 1827.

HOLMES, William Henry, anthropologist, was born near Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio, Dec. 1, 1840; son of Josepli and Mary (Heber- liug) Holmes; grandson of Jose]ili and Sara (McNab) Holmes and of Mary and John Heber- ling. He was edu- cated at the McNeely normal school in his native county, where upon his graduation in 1870 he was made instructor in zoology, l>hysical geography and drawing. In 1870 he became associated with the Smithsonian Institution, Washing- ton, D.C., as draughts- man in the depart- ment of paleontolo- gy. In the spring of 1872 he was aj)- pointed artist to the Hayden exploring expedi- tion and passed the summer in the Yellow- stone coimtry, devoting much time to the study and illastration of geologic phenomena and acquiring proficiency in the departments of structural and stratigi-aphic geologj'. In 1872, 1873 and 1874, he assisted Dr. Hayden in the geological survey of Colorado. In 1875 he was placed in charge of the San Juan division of the survey and made a leport upon the geology of southwest Colorado and parts of the adjacent territories. While conducting this work he ex- plored and reported upon the ancient cliff and l^ueblo ruins of that region. The field season of 1876 he occupied in making a geologic reconnais- sance of western Colorado, and he devoted tiie following year to a study of the geology of Yel- lowstone national park. Pending the reorganiza- tion of the various government surveys in 1879, he visited Eurojie and in the following year joined Capt. C. E. Dutton in the surve\' of the Kaibab section of the Grand Canon of the Colorado. Having been i)laced at the head of the illustrations division of the geologic survey, he

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