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Halleck was made his chief-of-staflf, and contin- ued in Washington until April 19, 1H65, when he was transferred to Richmond, Va., as commander of the military division of the James. His orders to the officers in command of the forces operat- ing in North Carolina against the army of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, "to pay no regard to any truce or orders of General Sherman respecting hostilities" and '• to push on- ward regardless of orders from any one except General Grant and cut off Johnston's re- treat,"' caused " "> a breach in

the long existing friendship between the two commanders. On Aug. 30, 1865, he was trans- ferred to the command of the division of the Pacific and on being relieved by Gen. George H. Thomas was transferred to the division of the south, with headquarters at Louisville, Ky. March 16, 1869. He was elected professor of engi- neering in the Lawrence scientific school. Har- vard university, in 1848, but declined the appointment. Union college conferred on him the honorary degree of A.M. in 1843, and that of LL.D. in 1862. He delivered before the Lowell institute, Boston, Mass., in the winter of 1845-46, twelve lectures on the science of war, which were published as " Elements of Military Art and Science" (1846, 2d ed. 1861), and this work be- came the manual for volunteer officers of the civil war. During his seven months' voyage to California around the horn, he translated Baron Jomini's " Vie Politique et Militaire de Napo- leon " which he published in 1864. He also pub b'shed: A Collection of Mining Laics of Spain and Mexico (1859); a translation of DeFooz on the Laio of Mines luith Introductory Bemarks (1860); and In- ternational Laio on liuJes regulating the Intercourse of Slates in Peace and War (1861), condensed and adapted to u.se in schools and colleges (1866). He died at Louisville. Ky,, Jan. 9. 1872.

HALLETT, Benjamin Franklin, politician, was born in Osterville, Barnstable, Mass., Dec. 2, 1797; son of Benjamin Hallett, shipmaster, who served in both the army and navy in the Revolu- tionary war, and who founded the Bethel chapel in New York and subsequently in Boston. He was graduated at Brown, A.B., 1816; A.M., 1819, and was admitted to the Rliode Island bar in 1819. He practised law in Providence, R.I., 1819-21; edited the Providence Journal 1821-27, and the Daily Advertiser. 1827-33, which latter he conducted as an anti-masonic organ. He was editor-in-chief of the Boston, Mass., Advocate,

1833-38, conducted as an anti-masonic paper. He bitterly assjiiled the political policy of Henry Clay when that leader refused to accept the anti-masonic vote, and when the movement had exhausted itself, he joined the Democratic party, in the councils of which organization he was a powerful factor. He practised law in Boston, 1838-62; was a member of the Massachusetts ex- ecutive council in 1843; a member of the Massa- chusetts constitutional convention of 1853; was U.S. district attorney by appointment of Presi- dent Pierce, 1853-57; a delegate to successive Democratic national conventions and for many years chairman of the national committee. He advanced the nomination of Pierce in 1852, and of Buchanan in 1856, and was the author of the Cincinnati platform of 1856. He was a con- tributor to the Boston Morning Post, and is the author of: Report of Trial of A. S. Field for Mur- der of Jonathan Gray (1826); Legislative Investiga- tion into Masonry (1832); Address to people of Massachusetts in relation to Free Masom-y (1833); Rights of the Marshpen Indians (1834); and The Right if the People to Establish Forms of Government (1848). He died in Boston, Mass., Sept. 30, 1862. HALLOCK, Charles, author, was born in New York city, March 13, 1834; son of Gerard and Eliza (Allen) Hallock; grandson of the Rev. Moses Hallock of Plainfield, Mass., and a de- scendant of Peter Hallock, who came from Hing- ham, England, to New Haven colony in 1640. He was a student at Yale, 1850-51, at Amherst in the class of 1854, 1851-52, and received his A.B. de- gree in 1871, A.M., 1879. He was assistant editor of the New Haven Register, 1854-56; proprietor and associate etlitor of the New York Journal of Commerce, of which his father was editor, 1856- 62; for several years a commission merchant, banker and editor in St. John and Halifax, N B.; incorporator and director of the Flushing and Queens county bank in 1873, and founder and proprietor of Forest and Stream, 1873-80. He ex- perimented in sun-flower culture, using the seed for oil; in sheep raising on Indian reservations; in establishing a reservation for sportsmen in Minnesota; in the development of Alaska and Florida, and of .special industries in Nortli Caro- lina; and in various other .sanitary and emu niic schemes. He originated the code of uniform game laws and incoi-jwrated with Fayette S. (xiles and otliers the first great American game preserve at Blooming Grove. Pike county. Pa. He is the author of: Recluse of the Oconee (1854); Life of Sloneirnll Jackson (1863): The Fishtng Tovr- ist (1873); Camp Life in Florida (1875); The Sportsman's Gazetteer (1877); Vacation Rambles in Michigan (1877); American Club Ltst and Glos- sary (\H1S) ■ Onr yexc Alaska (1886); The Salmon Fisher (1890) and contributions to i)erioilicals.