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of Manassas and Antietam, the skirmish at Shep- ardstown, andthe march to Fahuouth, Va., Octo- ber to November, 1862. He \va.s severely wounded at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862 ; and for service in that battle was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 13, 1802. He was mustered out of the volunteer service, May 23, 1863 ; and served as mustering and disbursing officer at Rochester, N.Y., from May, 1863, to January, 1864. He re-entered the volunteer service as colonel of volunteers and was assigned to the 14th New York Heavy Artillery, Jan. 4, 1864, commanded the provisional brigade made up of dismounted cavalry and heavy artillery in the 4th division, 9tli corps. Grant's army, in the campaign against Richmond, and participated in the battles of the "Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Tolopotomy, and in command of the provisional brigade in the 1st division, 9th corps, at Cold Harbor. He commanded the 2d brigade of Ledlie's division at the battle of the Petersburg Crater, June 17-18, 1864, where he greatly dis- tinguished himself and was severely wounded. He was present at the siege of Petersburg, July 8-30, 1864, led in the main assault, July 30, and was captured after holding the crater nearly all day. He was brevetted colonel, July 30, 1864, for gallant and meritorious services at Petersburg, succeeding the explosion of the mines ; was a prisoner of war from July, 1864, to April, 1865, and commanded a brigade in the defence of Wash- ington, D.C., May to July, 1865. He was brevet- ted brigadier-general of volunteers, and briga- dier-general, U.S.A. for gallant and meritorious services during the war, March 13, 1865. He was mustered out of the volunteer service a second time, Aug. 16, 1865 ; served on recruiting duty from September, 1865, to March, 1866; was pro- moted major of the 5th infantry, June 12, 1865, and commanded Fort Union, N.M., 1866-67. He was retired with the rank of colonel, Sept. 11, 1867. See " Battle of the Petersburg Crater" by Maj. W. H. Powell, U.S.A., in " Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," Vol. IV. pages 545 et aeq. He died in Catiatidaigua, N.Y., Aug. 8, 1883.

MARSHALL, Humphrey, senator, was born in Westmoreland county, Va., in 1756 ; son of John (1732-1805) and Jane (Guesenbury) Mar- shall, and a descendant, through John of the Forest and Thomas, of John Marshall, a captain of English cavalry who settled in Jamestown, Va., in 1650. He was sent to live with his uncle, Col. Thomas Marshall, at " The Oaks " in Fauquier county, and studied under Scotch tutors, with his cousins. At the outbreak of the Revolution he joined the Continental army and was made captain in the Virginia cavalry in 1778. He re- moved to Kentucky in 1780, purchased 4000 acres of land near Lexington, and visited " The Oaks " in 1784, where he was married to his cousin Mary,

daughter of Col. Thomas Mai-shall. He returned to Kentucky and studied law. He was a member of the Federalist party, and was opposed to General Wilkinson's scheme to separate Kentucky from Virginia. In 1787 he was a delegate to the Dan- ville convention to consider the question of sepa> ration, and was largely instrumental in defeating the measure and in exposing the project for an alliance with Spain upon the establishment of the independence of Kentucky. He was a dele- gate to the Virginia convention that ratified the constitution of the United States, and was a representative in the Kentucky legislature from Woodford county in 1793, where lie opposed the enlistment of troops in Kentucky under Gen. George Rogers Clark. He characterised the move- ment an intrigue by the French minister Genet, to entrap Kentucky into an alliance against Spain. He was a U.S. senator, 1795-1801, having been elected as successor to John Edwards, whose term expired, Marcli 31, 1795, and he voted for the conditional ratification of the Jay treaty with Great Britain and opiX)sed alliance with any foreign power. He was instrumental in the exposure and overthrow of the plot laid by Burr and his coadjutors in 1806, and also caused the resignation of Judge Sebastian, a paid pen- sioner of Spain, from the bench of the court of appeals. He was a representative in the state legislature from Franklin county, 1807-09, and had a dispute with Henry Clay on the latter's recommendation that the members of the house wear clothes of domestic manufacture. This resulted in a duel in which Mr. Clay was slightly wounded. Mr. Marshall again represented Frank- lin county in the state legislature, 1823. He is the author of: History of Kentucky (1812, rev. ed., 2 vols., 1824), the first history of the state written. He died in Frankfort, Ky., July 1, 1841. MARSHALL, Humphrey, soldier, was born in Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 13, 1812 ; son of John Jay and Anna Reed (Birney) Marshall. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1832, and was promoted brevet 3d lieutenant of mounted rangers, July 1, 1832, and brevet 2d lieutenant of 1st dragoons, March 4, 1833. He was married, Jan. 23, 1833, to Frances E., daugh- ter of Dr. Charles McAllister of Franklin, Tenn. He served on the Black Hawk expedition in 1832, and resigned his commission, April 30. 1833. He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and practised at Frankfort, 1833-34, and at Louisville, 1834-46. He was a captain in the state militia, 1836-38, major, 1838-41, and lieutenant-colonel, 1841-46, and u|x)ji the outbreak of the war w^ith Mexico he raised the first regiment of Kentucky cavalry and was commissioned its colonel. June 9, 1846, and was engaged in the battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 22-23, 1847. He returned to Louisville, removed