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academy in 1870; was promoted 2d lieutenant, and assigned to the 3d artillery. He served on garrison duty, 1870-75; accompanied the Red River expedition into the Indian territory and Texas as ornithologist, 1876; was assistant to the chief engineer of the department of the Mis- souri, 1877-79; was promoted 1st lieutenant, 3d cavalry, May 5, 1879; captain, Feb. 18, 1881; was assistant quartermaster, Ogden, Utah, 1882- 83; and quartermaster of the department of the Platte, 1883-87. He was promoted major, Aug. 8, 1894:, and lieutenant-colonel and deputy quar- termaster-general, Nov. 13, 1898. He invented a system of signalling by means of mirrors, 1871. He is the author of: The Ornithology of the Red River Region of Texas (1877); The San Juan Reconnoissance in Colorado and New Mexico (1877); Reports on the White River Indian Agency, Colorado, and the Uintah Indian Agency (1879); Pagasa Springs, Colorado; its Geology and Botany (1879).

McCAULEY, Charles Stewart, naval officer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 3, 1793; son of John and Sarah (Stewart) McCauley; grandson of Colonel Stewart of the British army and nephew of Rear- Admiral Charles Stewart, U.S.N. He was warranted midshipman U.S.N., Jan. 16,

1809; was promoted lieutenant Dec. 9, 1814; commander March 3, 1831; cap- tain Dec. 9, 1839, and commodore April 4, 1867. He served as midshipman and act- ing lieutenant in the war of 1812 on the Constellation in Vir- ginia waters and on the Jefferson in 1814 on Lake Ontario. He was on the Consti- tution, Erie, Constel- lation and United States in the Mediterranean fleet, 1815-20; on the Constellation in the Pacific, 1820-22; on furlough in the merchant marine service, 1823-25; lieutenant on board the Boston in the South Atlantic squadron, 1825-29: on the receiving ship Fox, Baltimore, 1830; commanded the naval rendezvous at Boston, 1831. and Baltimore, 1832; and commanded the Fairfield, bound to the Pacific in 1833, but was relieved on account of d«>mestic affliction after two m'lnths' service. He com- manded the St.Lonifi. West Indian stntion 1834; the Falmouth, 1835; was commander and ex- ecutive officer at the Philadelphia navy yard, 1837-41; commanded the Delaware on the Brazil and Mediterranean stations, 1841-44; was com-

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niandant of the "Washington navy-yard, 1846-49; in command of the Pacific station, 1850-53; and in command of the Home squadron and sent to the West Indies on particular service, 1855, for which service he was tendered a dinner at the White House by President Pierce. He was a mem- ber of the retiring board, 1855; and president of the board to recommend a code of signals subse- quently adopted by the navy department, 1856. While commandant of the Norfolk navy-yard, 1860-61, when all hope of relief from the depart- ment was abandoned early in 1861, he scuttled the vessels at the docks to prevent their imme- diate use by the Confederates, and placed the Cumberland, the only manned vessel, in an atti- tude of defence, when he received peremptory instructions to bring out the vessels and destroy and abandon the place. As the vessels were already scuttled and rapidly sinking Commodore Paulding, who brought the instructions, did not deem it advisable to wait to undertake to raise the vessels and departed with the Pawnee and the chartered vessel on which he entered the Eliza- beth river on his mission. Captain McCauley followed on the Cumberland after firing the ship-houses together with the combustible por- tions of the yard and the unmanned frigate JUer- rimac, which was afterward raised by the Con- federate navy department and remodeled into the ironclad Virginia. He was retired Dec. 21, 1861, and died in Washington, D.C., May 21, 1869.

McCAULEY, Edward Yorke, naval officer, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 2, 1827. He was a nephew of Capt. C. S. McCauley, U.S.N. He was graduated from the U.S. Naval academy in 1841; was warranted a midshipman in the U.S. navy and was promoted passed midshipman Aug. 10, 1847; lieutenant, Sept. 14, 1855; lieut- tenant-commander, July 16, 1862; commander, Sept. 27, 1866; captain, Sept. 3, 1872; commo- dore, Aug. 7, 1871 and rear-admiral, March 2, 1885. He served on the Mediterranean squadron, 1841-45, and on the United States on the coast of Africa, 1846-48; was attached to the Constitu- tion, Mediterranean squadron, 1849-52. and the Powhatan, East India squadron, 1852-56, being present at the attack on the pirates in the China sea in 1855; was on the receiving ship Philadel- phia, 1856-57; the steamer Niagara on the cable expedition, 1857-58; was stationed at the naval observatory, 1858-59, and resigned from the navy. Aug. 19, 1859. He served on the steamer F/aj; of the Sontii Atlantic blockading squadron as acting lieutenant, 1861-62; commanded the steamers Fort Henry. 1862-63. and Tioga, 1863- 64, both of the East Gulf blockading squadron; the gunboat Benton, of the Mississippi squadron, 1864-65: was on special duty in Philadelphia, 1866-67; was fleet captain. North Atlantic squad-