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General McClellan with the rank of lieutenant- colonel of staff. On Jan, 13, 1862, he was as- signed to the quartermaster's department with the rank of major of staff, and he served as chief quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac, 1862- 65, being promoted brigadier-general of volun- teers, May 23, 1863. He was present at the sur- render of Lee at Appomattox, and there renewed his acquaintance with many of the officers who had joined the Confederacy in 1861 whom he had known at West Point and in Mexico, He was promoted, in the regular service, lieut- enant-colonel and deputy quartermaster-general, July 28, 1866, and colonel and assistant-quarter- master-general, July 29, 1866, Of his services General Grant said : "If he could have been spared to any of the other departments he would have made his mark as a fighter," He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, colonel and briga- dier-general, U.S. army, for meritorious and distinguished services, and major-general of vol- unteers and U.S. army in March, 1865, for faithful and meritorious services. After the war he was on duty in Washington, D.C., to May 4, 1866, when he crossed the continent to Oregon ; was chief quartermaster in New York, 1867-76, and subse- quently at Chicago and Washington ; and on Feb, 23, 1882, was promoted brigadier-general and quartermaster-general of the army. He was retired, at his own request, July 1, 1883, and made his home in Oregon, He removed to New York city in 1891, where he died, Jan. 15, 1893, INQALLS, Thomas Russell, educator, was born in Salem, N,Y,, Nov. 22, 1798; son of Charles and Cynthia (Russell) Ingalls, His father was a native of IMethuen, Mass,, who settled in Washington county, N.Y., after gradu- ating from Dartmouth, A.B., 1790, A.M., 1783; and his motlier was a daughter of the Rev, Tliomas Russell, D,D., of Piermont, N.H. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy in 1822. and resigned from the U.S. army in 1833, He was president of Jefferson college. La,, 183.3-40 ; travelled in Europe, 1840-42 ; returned to Washington county, N.Y., and resided in Greenwich, w-here he died, July 26, 1864.

INGE, Samuel W., representative, was born in North Carolina. He early removed to Greene county, Ala., and became a lawyer in Living- ston. He was a Democratic representative in the state legislature, 1844-45 ; and in the 30th and 31st congresses, 1847-51. While in congress, he fought a duel with Representative Edward Stanly, of North Carolina, at the celebrated duelling ground at Bladensburg, near Washing- ton, neither receiving serious injury. He was appointed by President Pierce U.S. attorney for the district of California in 1853. He died in San Francisco, Cal., in 1867.

INQERSOLL, Charles Jared, representative, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 3, 1782 ; son of Jared and Elizabeth (Pettit) IngersoU, and grandson of Jared IngersoU, tlie loyalist stamp- agent. He was liberally educated, studied law in his father's office in Philadeli^hia, and was admitted to the bar in 1802, He travelled in Europe with Rufus King, who was at the time U.S. minister to England. He was a representative from Philadelphia in the 13th congress, 1813- 15 ; district attorney of the United States for the eastern dis- trict of Pennsylva- na 1815-29 ; a repre- sentative in the state legislature ; a member of the state internal improvement convention of 1825, and of the Pennsylvania constitutional convention of 1837 ; and was a representative in the 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th congresses, 1841-49, being chair- man of the foreign affairs committee and one of the Democratic leaders. He was appointed in 1847 U.S. minister to France, by President Polk, but the nomination was rejected by the senate. He was a member of the American Philosophical society. He published a few poems and translations from the French, and numer- ous essays, orations and controversial writings. Among the more important of his early publi- cations are; A View of the RigJits and Wrongs, Poicer and Policy of the United States of America (1808), and Inchiquin the JesuiVs Letters, dur- ing a late residence in the United States of America (1810), in both of which he insisted upon American rights and defended the Ameri- can character against the scurrilous attacks of English writers. In later life he published a Historical Sketch of the Second War between the United States and Great Britain (4 vols. 1845- 52), and a volume of his Recollections was issued some years after his death. He had also been engaged upon a History of the Territorial Acqui- sitions of the United States, but left it too incom- plete for publication, A life of him was pub- lished by his grandson, William M, Meigs (1897). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 14, 1862.

INQERSOLL, Charles Lee, scientist, was born at Perry, N.Y., Nov. 1, 1844; son of Francis and Frances (Armstrong) IngersoU ; grandson of Samuel and Mary (Nelson) IngersoU ; and a de- scendant of Francis IngersoU, a Revolutionary soldier. He enlisted as a private in the 9th