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 LOGAN

LOGAN

prosecuting attorney of the third judicial district of Illinois, 1853-59 ; presidential elector on the Buclianan and Breckinridge ticket in 1856, and a Democratic representative in the 36th and 37th congresses, 1859-61. In July, 1861, during the extra session of the 37th congress he resigned his seat and joined the Federal army at Bull Run, fighting as a private in Colonel Richardson's regi- ment. He returned to Marion, 111., where he organized and was made colonel of the 31st Illi- nois infantry. He commanded his regiment in McClernand's brigade in the battle of Belmont, where he led a bayonet charge and had a horse shot under him ; also in the attack on Fort Henry, and at Fort Donelson, where he was se- verely wounded in the left shoulder. He joined General Grant at Pittsburg Landing, March 5, 1862, and was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers. He commanded a brigade at Jack- son, Tenn., where he guarded the railroad lines with six regiments. In 1862 he declined the nomination for representative in the 38th con- gress. He commanded the 3d division, 17th army corps, under General McPherson in Grant's northern Mississippi campaign ; was promoted major-general, Nov. 26, 1862, and fought at Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill and at the siege of Vicksburg, vi^here he was in com- mand of McPherson's centre, his command en- tering Vicksburg immediately after the explosion of the mine. He was made the first military governor of Vicksburg, and for his gallantry during the siege he received from congress a medal of honor which bore the inscription "Vicksburg, July 4, 1863." He succeeded Gen- eral Sherman in November, 1863, as the comman- der of the 15th army corps. He led the advance of the Army of the Tennessee at Resaca ; and repulsed Hardee at Dallas, where he was shot through the left arm. He temporarily succeeded General McPherson in command of the Army of the Tennessee upon the latter's death, July 22, 1864, and led his corps in the battle of Kenesaw Mountain and in the attack on Atlanta. After taking part in the presidential campaign of 1864, he rejoined Sherman at Savannah and continued in command of his corps until the surrender of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, April 26, 1865, when he succeeded General Howard as commander of the Army of the Tennessee. He resigned his commission in the army and returned to his home at Marion, 111., in August, 1865. He was a Re- publican representative in the 40th and 41st con- gresses, 1867-71, and was one of the managers of the impeachment trial of President Johnson. He was U.S. senator from Illinois, 1871-77, and 1879- 86. He was a candidate for nomination for the Presidency June 3, 1884, and upon the nomina- tion of James G. Blaine was chosen Republican

candidate for Vice-President by acclamation. He was commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and it was on his proposal that May 30th was designated as Decoration Day and made a national holiday. He was married Nov. 27, 1855, to Mary Simmerson, daughter of Capt. John M. Cunningham, register of the land office at Shawneetown, 111., who survived him. They had three children : the eldest, a son, died in infancy ; the second, a daughter, married Maj. W. F. Tucker, U.S.A.; and the youngest, John A. Logan, Jr., was a major in the U.S. volunteer service in the war with Spain, served in Cuba as an adjutant-general on Gen. J. C. Bates's staff ; was appointed major of the 33d U.S. volunteers August, 1899, and was killed while leading a charge at San Jacinto, Luzon, Philippine Islands, Nov. 11, 1899. General Logan is the author of: The Great Conspiracy (1886); The Volunteer Soldier of America (1887). An equestrian statue in bronze, on a bronze pedestal with has relief portraits of the general oflEicers serving with him, and scenes in the senate when he took the oath of office, and on battlefields in which he engaged, was unveiled in "Washington, D.C., April 10, 1901. He died in Washington, D.C., Dec. 26, 1886.

LOQAN, Olive, author, was born in Elmira, N. Y., April 22, 1839 ; daughter of Cornelius Am- brosius and Eliza (Acheley) Logan. She was educated partly at the Methodist Female semin- ary, and partly at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, at Cincinnati, Ohio. She made her debut on the stage in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1854, and went to England in 1857, where she completed her education. She married Henry A. Delille in April, 1857, and in 1864 appeared at Wallack's theatre in New York city in " Eveleen," a play of which she was the author. She had a successful stage ca- reer, and retired in 1868. She became a lec- turer, principally on woman's rights and on other social topics. She obtained a divorce from her first husband in December. 1865, and was married secondly Dec. 19, 1871, to William Wirt Sikes, U.S. consul at Cardiff, Whiles, 1876-83. She contributed to American journals and mag- azines while a resident of Wales. Consul Sikes died in 1883 and in 1892 she was married thirdly to James O'Neill Logan. She was elected a mem- ber of the London Society of Authors in 1886.