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R. aeburne's brigade, Gen. W. J. Hardee's corps, lost more in killed and wounded accord- ing to numbers than any other regiment on either side. In the first day's fight Major Lowry was wounded. On the reorganization of the regiment he was elected colonel, and he com- manded the regiment at the battle of Corinth, Dec. 3-4, 1862 ; in the Vicksburg campaign, in- cluding Port Gibson, April 30-May 1, 1863 ; at Jackson, May 14, 1863, and Baker's Creek or Champion Hills, May 16, 1863 ; throughout the Georgia campaign in Adams's brigade, Loring's division, Johnston's army, being for a time in command of Featherstone's brigade ; at Frank- lin, Tenn.. Nov. 30, 1864, where he succeeded to the command of Adams's brigade when that officer was killed, and he soon thereafter was ap- pointed brigadier-general ; at Nashville, Dec. 15- 16, 1864, where he led the brigade ; and in the Carolina campaign, where he surrendered with Johnston's army, April 26, 1865. He then re- sumed the practice of law at Brandon ; served in both branches of the state legislature, and was ap- pointed with Col. Giles M. Hillyer a commissioner to visit President Johnson in 1866 in behalf of Jefferson Davis, and he visited Davis during his confinement in Fort Monroe. He was governor of Mississippi, 1882-90, and president of the boards of trustees of the University of Missis- sippi, the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Starkville, and the Industrial Institute and Col- lege for the Education of White Girls, Columbus. LOY, riatthias, educator, was born in Cumber- land county, Pa., March 17, 1828 ; son of Matthias andChristina (Reaves) Loy. His father came from Germany in 1817. He was graduated from the Lutheran Theological seminary, Columbus, Ohio, in 1849, and received the degree of A.M. in 1852. He was married Dec. 25, 1853, to May, daughter of Henry Willey of Delaware, Ohio. He was pastor of the Lutheran church of Delaware, Ohio, 1849-65. In 1865 he became professor in the Theological seminary and in Capital university, Columbus, Ohio, and in 1881 he was elected president of Capital university and subse- quently of the Theological seminary. In 1860 he was elected president of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Ohio and other states and con- tinued in that office by repeated re-election until 1892. He received the degree of D.D. from Muhlenberg college in 1887. He edited the Lutheran Standard, 1864-90, was editor-in-chief of the Columbus Theological Magazine, 1881-87, and edited a translation of Luther's " House Postil " (3 vols., 1874-84). He is author of : The Doctrine of Justification (1862) ; Life of Luther, transla- tion (1869) ; Essay on the Ministerial Office (1870) : Sermons on the Gospels (1887) ; Christian Prayer (1890) ; The Church (1897).

LOYALL, L. George, representative, born in Norfolk. Va., May 29, 1789 ; son of George and Sarah (Willoughby) Loyall, and grandson of Paul Loy all, whose wife was Frances Newton, daugh- ter of George and Alphea (Wilson) Newton. He was graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1808. He was a representative in the Virginia legislature, 1817-27 ; a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1829, and a representative from Virginia in the 21st congress, as successful contestant for the seat of Tliomaa Newton. He served in the 2l8t congress from March 9, 1830, and in the 23d and 24tli congresses, 1833-37. He was navy agent at Norfolk, Va., almost continuously, 1837-61. He died in Nor- folk, Va., Feb. 24, 1868.

LOYZANCE, Joseph flarie Rene, educator, was born in the parish of St. Ouen des AUeux, Rennes, France, March 12, 1820. He studied the classics and theology at Rennes, and was or- dained a secular priest. On Dec. 3, 1849, he was. received into the Society of Jesus at Vannes, and in 1852 was sent to New York city and assigned to the College; of St. Francis Xavier, of which he was made president in 1863, and held the position until 1870 when he went to Canada as treasurer of St. Mary's college, Mon- treal. He was afterward superior of Manresa institute, a house of retreat, Keyser Island, South Norwalk, Conn. He died at Holy Cross college, Worcester, Mass., Feb. 23," 1897.

LOZIER, Clemence Sophia, physician, was born in Plainfield, N.J., Dec. 11, 1812 ; daughter of David Harned. She was married in 1829 to Abraham W. Lozier of New York, and their son. Dr. Abraham W. Lozier, married Charlotte Irene Dennian, who became a well-known physician. She conducted a school in the city of New York, 1837-48, during her husband's protracted illness. She became a member of the Moral Reform society, and after her husband's death attended lectures at the Rochester Eclectic Medical college ; and was graduated M.D. from the Syracuse Medi- cal college in 1853. She engaged in the practice of medicine in New York city and rose to promi- nence as a surgeon for women. She gave a series of lectures on medical subjects in her parlors in 1860, which resulted in organizing and establisli- iug in 1863 the New York Medical college and hospital for women of which she was the dean of the faculty and clinical professor of the diseases of women and children. She was also president of the New York City Woman Suffrage society and of the National Woman Suffrage society, and a member of philanthropic and reform societies. She died in New York city, April 26, 1888.