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of the department of New Mexico, 1851-53, and as chief of the survey of the Pacific railroad route, near the 33d parallel of latitude, 1853- 59. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, March 3, 1853 ; captain, July 1, 1856, for fourteen years' continuous service, and was on light-house duty, 1859-61. He was court-martialed for criticising the President's policy early in 1861 ; was appointed by President Lincoln mustering officer at Chicago, III., serving from April to July, 1861 ; was made brigadier-general of U.S. volunteers, May 17, 1861, and commanded the district of North Missouri, July to October, 1861, and the 2d divi- sion of the army in its su-jcessful campaign against General Price in Southwest Missouri, October to December, 1861, when he captured large stores of provisions and many prisoners. He commanded the district of Central Missouri, December, 1861, to February, 1862 ; the Army of the Mississippi in co-operation with the gunboat fleet under Flag-officer Foote in the capture of New Madrid, Mo., March 14, 1862. and the capture of Island No. 10, April 8, 1862. He was promoted major-general of volunteers, March 21, 1862, and in the Mississippi campaign advanced upon and besieged Corinth, April-May, 1862, after its capture pursuing the Confederate army to Bald- win. He was promoted brigadier-general in the regular army, July 14, 1862 ; was given com- mand of the Army of Virginia, to which was added the Army of the Potomac, and with the combined army fought the disastrous battles of Cedar Mountain, Manassas and Chantilly, resign- ing his command after the army fell back on Washington. He was transferred to the com- mand of the departinent of the Northwest, serving 1862-65 ; was commander of the military division of the Missouri, January to June, 1865, and of the department of the Missouri, June, 1865, to August, 1866. He was brevetted major-general, U.S.A., March 13, 1865, for gallantry at Island No. 10, and was mustered out of the volunteer service, Sept. 1, 1866. He was on leave of absence, October, 1866, to April, 1867, and commanded the Third military district, comprising Georgia, Florida and Alabama, 1867-68 ; the departuient of the Lakes, 1868-70, and the department of the Mis- souri, 1870-83. He was promoted major-general, U.S.A., Oct. 26, 1882, and commanded the division of the Pacific and the department of California, 1883-86, when he was retired, being sixty-four years of age. He charged the failure of his operations in Virginia to the omission of Gen. Fitz-John Porter to obey his orders and caused that officer's court-martial. He is the autlior of : Explorations from the Red River to the Rio Grande (Pacific Railroad reports, vol. III.) and The Campaign of Virginia, 1862 (1865). He died in Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. 23, 1892.

PORCHER Francis Peyre, botanist, was born in St. John's parish, Berkeley district, S.C, Dec. 14, 1824; son of Dr. William and Isabella S. (Peyre) Porcher ; grandson of Thomas and Char- lotte (Mazyck) Porcher, and of Francis and Mary (Walter) Peyre, and a descendant of Isaac and Claud (de Cherigny) Porcher. Isaac Porcher, a native of St. Severe, Berrie, France, and a Huguenot refugee, settled in South Carolina in 1685. Francis Peyre Porcher was graduated at South Carolina college in 1844, and at the Medi- cal College of the State of South Carolina in 1847. He practised in Charleston, S.C. ; was surgeon and physician to the Marine and City hospitals ; surgeon in charge of the Confederate hospitals at Norfolk and Petersburg, Va., 1862- 65 ; professor of materia medica, therapeutics and clinical medicine in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, and one of the editors of the Charleston Medical Journal and Review for several years. He was elected president of the South Carolina Medical society in 1872 ; was an associate fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, and a corresponding member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. He was married first, April 25, 1855, to Virginia, daughter of the Hon. Benjamin Watkins and Julia (Wickham) Leigh of Richmond, Va ; and secondly, March 9, 1877, to Margaret, daughter of Col. Joshua John and Johanna (Hasell) Ward of Waccamaw, S.C. He received the degree of LL. D. from the South Carolina college in 1891 ; was a member of the World's International Medical congress at Berlin, 1895, and a complimentary president of the section on general medicine at the Pan-American Medical congress. He devoted his leisure to the study of botany, and is the author of : A Medico- Botanical Catalogue of the Plants and Ferns of St. John's, Berkeley. S.C. (1847) ; A Sketch of the Medical Botany of Soidh Carolina (1849); 77ie Medicinal. PoL^onous and Dietetic Properties of the Cryptogamic Plants of the United States (1854): Illustrations of Disease 2vith the Microscope, and Clinical Investigations aided by the Microscope and by Chemical Re- agents (1861), and Resources of the Soidhern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical and Agricultural, published by order of the surgeon- general of the Confederate States (1863, rev. ed., 1869). He died in Charleston, S.C, Nov. 19, 1895.

PORTER, Albert Gallatin, governor of In- diana, was born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., April 20, 1824 ; son of Thomas and Myra (Tousey) Por- ter, and grandson of Moses Tousey of Kentucky. His paternal grandfather removed from Pennsyl- vania to Belleview. an island in the Ohio river. He worked as a ferryman on the Ohio river; attended the preparatory department of Hanover college ; was graduated at Indiana Asbury uni-