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opened the second day's battle at Gettysburg by storming and capturing " The Devil's Den" and aided by Benning's Georgia brigade defended tlie position. At Chickamauga on the evening of the first day's battle he made an independent charge which secured the first decided Confed- erate advantage in that battle. On the second day he commanded Law's brigade and was con- spicuous in Longstreet's charge which broke the Federal right wing, and at Snodgi-ass Hill his brigade captured sixteen pieces of artillery. He was also conspicuous at the Wilderness, Spottsyl- vania and around Richmond and Petersburg and his brigade was on the last line of battle when the news of Lee's surrender suspended hostil- ities. He was recommended for promotion in January, 1864, but by some error the recommen- dation was not laid before the senate until Jan- uary, ISGo, and he received his commission as brigadier-general in February, 1865. His record names him as present in twenty engagements with the enemy, of which eiglit were the bloodiest battles of the war. He cammanded a regiment in nine and a brigade in ten of the engage- ments. He returned to his vocation as teacher, conducting a school at Lynnland, Ky., 1869- 82, and was professor of English language and literature, elocution and history in Ogden col- lege. Bowling Green, Ky., 1883-1900. He was commander of the camp of Confederate veterans. Bowling Green, where he died, Dec. 17, 1901.

PERRY, William Hayne, representative, was born in Greenville, S.C., June 9, 1839 ; son of Gov, Benjamin Franklin (q.v.) and Elizabeth Frances (McCall) Perry. He graduated at Furman uni- versity, S.C. ; attended South Carolina college ; graduated, fifth orator, at Harvard in 1859 ; studied law with his father, 1859-61, and in 1861 en- tered the Confederate service in Brook's cavalry. He was made first lieutenant of his company, which was afterward attached to the Hampton legion, and served in Virginia and South Car- olina. After the close of the war he practised law with his father ; was a member of the state convention of 1865 ; a representative from Greenville in the state legislature, 1865-66 ; soli- citor of the eighth judicial district, 1868-73: a member of the state senate, 1880-84, and a repre- sentative from the foui'th district of South Car- olina in the 49th, 50th and 51st congresses, 1885-91.

PERRY, William Stevens, second bishop of Iowa and 116th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Providence, R.I., Jan. 22, 1832 ; a descendant of John Perrj', who settled, in 1636, in Roxbury, Mass., where he was a mem- ber of John Eliot's church. He was named for his maternal uncle, the Rt. Rev. William Bacon Stevens (q.v.). He attended the Providence high VIII. — 19

school and Brown university, 1850-51, and was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1854, A.M., 1857. He studied theology at the Virginia Theological seminary, Alexandria, Va., and under the Rev. John S. Stone of Boston ; was ordered deacon, March 29, 1857, and was ordained priest, April 7,

1858 ; was assistant minister of St. Paul's. Boston, 1857-58 ; rector of St. Luke's, Nashua, N.H., 1858- 61 ; of St. Stephen's, Portland, Maine, 1861-63 ; of St. Michael's, Litchfield, Conn., 1864-69, and of Trinity church, Geneva, N.Y., 1869-76. He was married in 1862 at Gambler, Ohio, to Sarah A. W., daughter of the Rev. Thomas Mather Smith. He was professor of history and the evi- dences of Christianity at Hobart college. Geneva, N.Y., 1871-76, and served as president of the col- lege, April 20-Sept. 1, 1876. He was deputy to the general convention from New Hampshire in

1859 and from Maine in 1862 ; was assistant secre- tary to the house of deputies, 1862-65, and secre- tary, 1865-74. He was appointed historiographer of the church in America in 1868 ; was chaplain general of the Society of the Cincinnati and president of the Iowa Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He was elected Bishop of Iowa and consecrated, Sept. 10, 1876, by bishops Stevens, Coxe and Kerfoot, assisted by bishops Bissell and Oxenden of Montreal. He was elected professor in systematic divinity and president of Griswold college in 1876. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Bishop's col- lege, Lennoxville, Canada, in 1859 ; S.T.D. by Trinity college in 1869 ; LL.D. by William and Mary college, Virginia, in 1876 ; D.C.L. by Bishop's college in 1885 and by King's college, Windsor, N.S., in 1886; S.T.D. by Oxford uni- versity in 1888 ; D.C.L. by the University of the South in 1893 and LL.D. by Dublin university in 1894. He was assistant editor of the Boston Church Monthly in 1864, and editor of the lorca Churchman, 1877-98 ; and is the author of contri- butions to the principal church periodicals and of a large number of works on cliurch history includ- ing : Journals of the General Conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States in America (1861) ; Doeumentamj History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (2 vols., 1863-64) both of which were written in conjunction with Dr. Francis L. Hawks ; Historical Collections of the American Colonial Church (1871-78), including Virginia (1871), Pennsylvania (1872), 3Iassachusetts (1873), Maryland (1878), and Deknmre (1878); The His- tory of the American Episcopal Church. 15S7-1SS3 (2 vols., 1885), and Tlie American Church and the American Constitution (1895). Among his other works are Some Summer Days Abroad (1880) and Life Lessons from the Book of Proverbs (1885). He died in Dubuque, Iowa, May 13, 1898.