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and supported Generals Smith and Wood at the capture of the heights of Reseca, May 14, 1864. When Logan succeeded McPherson in the com- mand of the Army of the Tennessee, Lightburn assumed command of the 2d division, and upon Hood's attack upon the 15th corps, July 22, 1864, the line having been weakened by a previous attack, the Confederates succeeded by a flank movement in driving back a portion of Light- burn's troojjs, and causing the whole division to break in confusion. Lightburn reformed the divi- sion, and with the assistance of Wood's division and one brigade of the 16th corps, recaptured the guns. During the Atlanta campaign he was severely wounded in the head, and after his re- covery he led a brigade in the Shenandoah valley. He resigned his commission in the army, June 22, 1865, and was a representative in the West Virginia state legislature, 1866-67. In 1869 he was ordained to the Baptist ministry, and became pastor at Mt. Lebanon Baptist church, Harrison county, W. Va. He engaged in the active work of the ministry until January, 1901.

LIQON, Thomas Watkins, governor of Mary- land, was born in Prince Edward county, Va., in 1812; son of Thomas D. Ligon and grandson of Col. Thomas Watkins, a hero of the battle of Guilford, March 15, 1781. He attended Hampden- Sidney college, the University of Virginia, and Yale Law school. He practised law in Baltimore, Md., 1835-53, residing near Ellicott City. He was a representative in the 29th and 30th con- gresses, 1845-49, and governor of Maryland, 1854- 58. He was president of Pata^jsco Female Insti- tute, and an officer in several charitable institu- tions in Baltimore and vicinity. He died near Ellicott City, Md., Jan. 12, 1881.

LILLIB, John, biblical scholar, was born in Kelso, Scotland, Dec. 16, 1812; son of Thomas Lillie, merchant. He was graduated with first honors from the University of Edinburgh in 1831, studied theology in the divinity hall and taught school in Edinburgh until 1834, when he immi- grated to the United States. He completed his course in theology at the New Brunsw'ck sem- inary. New Jersey. He was licensed to preach by the classis of New York, July 21, 1835, and was ordained and installed minister in the Reformed Dutch church, Feb. 1, 1836. He was pastor of the Reformed Dutch church, Kingston, N.Y., 1836- 41; president of the grammar school of the Uni- versity of the City of New York, 1841-43; pastor of the Broadway, afterward Staunton Street Re- formed Dutch church, in New York cit^', 1843-52, and edited the Jewish Chronicle, published for distribution in the missions among the Jews, 1844-48. He was recognized as one of the best biblical scholars in the United States, and was engaged upon the Revised Version prepared by

the American Bible Union, 1851-57. He was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Kingston, N.Y., 1857-67. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1855. He translated with additions Auberlen and Riggen- bach upon Thessalonians, in the Lange series (1868), and is the author of Perpetuity of the Earth (1842); Lectures on the Epistles to the TJiessalonians (1860). His Lectures on the First and Second Epistles of Peter, with a Biographical Sketch by Dr. Schaff and James Inglis, were published posthumously (1869.) He died at Kingston, N.Y., Feb. 23, 1867.

LILLINQTON, John Alexander, soldier, was born in Barbadoes, W. I., about 1725; son of Col. George Lillington of the British army, and a member of the royal council of Barbadoes in 1698, and grandson of Alexander Lillington who was governor of Carolina under the lords proprietors, 1691-94. John came to North Carolina with his father in 1734, after the government had passed to the crown; resided in the Albemarle district and became identified with the movement de- manding representation in the affairs of govern- ment. In August, 1775, he received the appoint- ment of colonel of militia for the Wilmington district from the provincial congress of North Carolina. Pie commanded in the battle of Moores Creek Bridge, Feb. 27, 1776, until the arrival of Col. Richard Casewell, when he became second in command, and they succeeded in cap- turing 1000 Scotch loyalists. This was the first victory won by the American troops in the Revolution. He was promoted colonel of the 6th North Carolina regiment. Continental army, April 4, 1776, and became brigadier-general under Gen- eral Gates in 1780. He died probably at "Lil- lington Hall,'" Bladen county, N.C., in 1786.

LINCECUM, Gideon, naturalist, was born in Hancock county, Ga., April 22, 1793. He acquir- ed an education through home study, served in the Georgia militia in the war of 1812 and became a practising pliysician in Lowndes county, Miss., in 1815. In 1856 he removed to Texas and spent 1868-72 in Tuxpan, Mexico. He became the friend and correspondent of Darwin, Humboldt, Agassiz and other eminent naturalists. He i)ub- lished papers through the Smithsonian Institu- tion, the Franklin Institute and the Essex Insti- tute, among them being a monograph on the red ant, the result of fourteen years' study. The Jardin des Plantes in Paris contains his collection of Texan floi'a and the Essex Institute, at Salem, Mass., his collection of forty-eight families of ants and butterflies. He is the author of several unpublished works, including an autobiography;. Hie Medical History of the Southern lli ited States and The Traditions of the Clioctmr Jndiaiis. He- died in Brenliam, Texas, Nov. 28, 1874.