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promoted brigadier-general for gallantry on the field. When Beauregard was ordered to S(juth Carolina he served on the staff of General Bragg, but shortly after he returned to Beaui-egard and served under him in the defence of Ciiarleston until the close of the war. He became editor of the Memphis Appeal in 1866, and in 1869 was made chief of the general staff of the Cuban in- surgent army, landing with reinforcements at Mayan, and while attempting to reach the main insurgent army was attacked by the Spanish forces and lost eighty men. He became com- mander-in-chief of the insurgents, and in Jan- uary, 1870, met and defeated a superior force of Spanish regulars at Guaimaro. He resigned his commission, February, 1870, and returned to the United States, devoting himself to literary pur- suits in New York city. He was editor of the Financial and Mining Record; joint author with J. B. Pryor of The Campaign of Lieutenant- General Forrest (1868); published a critical review of the Confederate operations and administra- tion in Harper's Magazine in 1865, which at- tracted wide attention, and contributed otherwise to the literature of the civil war. He died in New York city, Nov. 28, 1895.

JORDAN, Thomas Walden, educator, was born at Newborn, Va., Dec. 2, 1848; son of "Wil- liam Jasper and Lucretia (Howe) Jordan, and grandson of Michael and Elizabeth (Trolinger) Jordan and of Joseph H. and Margaret (Feely) Howe. He was graduated from Emory and Henry college, Virginia, A.B., 1869, A.M., 1872, and from the University of Virginia in 1871, and was professor of Latin and history in Kentucky Wesleyan college, 1872-78; joint principal of Science Hill Female college, Shelby ville, Ky., 1879-81; professor of Latin and Greek at Emory and Henry college, 1882-86, and jiresident of that college, 1886-89. He was made dean of the col- lege and professor of Latin language and litera- ture in the University of Tennessee in 1889, and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Emory and Henry college in 1897.

JOUETT, James Edward, naval oflfioer, was bora in Lexington, Ky., Feb. 27, 1828; son of Matthew Harris and Margaret (Allen) Jouett. He was educated in the public schools at Lexing- ton, Ky., and entered the U.S. navy as midship- man in 1841 and was attached to the frigate Independence. He served on the sloop Deoafwr in suppressing the slave trade, 1844-45; and was attached to the gulf squadron, 1846-47, in the Mexican war. He was promoted passed mid- shipman, Aug. 10, 1847; assigned to the frigate St. Laicrence in 1848; transferred to the store-ship Lexington in 1851; and served on the sloop of war St. Mary's, 1853-57. He was promoted mas- ter, Sept. 14, 1855, and lieutenant, Sept. 15,

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IS.")."), and assigned to the steamer Michigan. He served in the Brazil squadron, 1858-59: in the Home squadron in Cuban waters in 1860, and in the West Gulf blockading squadron, 1861-64. He commanded the first and second launches of the U. S. frigate San tee on the night of Nov. 7, 1861, when under cover of the darkness he captured Vjy board- ing the armed schoon- er lioijal Yacht in tiie harljor of Gal- veston, Texas, and was twice severely wounded. He was appointed lieutenant- commander, July 16, 1862, and ordered to the steamer R. R. Ctiyler, off Mobile. He was in command of the steamer Metacomet which was engaged in the battle of Mobile Bay, Aug. 5, 1864. Tiiis vessel was lashed alongside the flagship Hart- ford, Admiral Farragut. and accompanied her past the forts. Jouett was ordered to cast off dur- ing the engagement, and he captured the Selma with a crew of ninety officers and men, and crippled the Gaines so badly that she had to be run ashore. Jouett's conduct during the battle won him the praise of Admiral Farragut. and a special board recommended that Lieutenant- ComuKinder Jouett be promoted thirty numbers for heroic conduct in battle. In 1885 when the rebels had closed the transit across the Isthmus of Panama he opened it and restored peace, for which he was thanked by the president of the United States of Colombia. He was promoted commander, July 25, 1866; captain, Jan, 7, 1874; commodore, Jan. 11, 1883; rear-admiral, Feb. 19, 1886. He retired from active service, Feb, 27, 1890, and in March, 1893, congress retired him. He died in Colver Springs, Md., Oct. 1, 1902.

JOUETT, riatthew Harris, painter, was born in Mercer county, Ky., April 22, 1788; son of Capt. John and Sally (Robards) Jouett; great- grandson of Jean Jouett, and a greats-grandson of Daniel de Jouet, who came to Rhode Island in 1686, went thence to South Carolina and fi'ora there to New York, finally settling in Elizabeth- town, N.J., in 1721. Capt. John Jouett was a Revolutionary soldier who eluded Tarleton's ran- gers and gave the alarm to Jefferson at Monticello and to the state legislature in session at Char- lottesville, Va., for which he received the thanks of congress and a sword and brace of pistols from Virginia. Matthew Harris's uncle, Capt. Matthew Jouett, was clerk of the first legislative body that