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pulsed. General Rodes was badly wounded, although he refused to surrender his command to Col. J. B. Gordon until after the firing had ceased. He rendered distinguished service in the final advance at Gaines's Mills, June 27, 1862, and heroically resisted General

Meade's brigade at South Mountain,

Sept. 14, 1862, where his brigade lost one- third of its number. At the battle of Chau- cellorsville his brig- ade headed the col- umn in the line of battle on Orange Plank road, with Colston's forming the second line, and A. P. Hill's the third. At the command of Gen- eral Jackson he led the assault on the evening of May 2, 1863, completely demoralizing Hooker's left, commanded by Howard, and for this service was promoted major-general on the field. At the battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, he com- manded a division, consisting of five brigades numbering 8000 men. Of these, 3000 were ho7's de combat after the first day's fighting, and on the second day, with General Earlj-, he was ordered to assault Cemetery Hill, but the attack was not successful. During the battles of the Wildei'ness General Rodes rendered most efficient service, especially on May 12, 1864, when his division, with that of Johnson, occupied the left of the salient, on which fell the main task of holding the enemy in check, and where before dawn raged the fiei'cest battle of the war. On Early's march to Washington in the following July, after McCausland's gallant attack on the eastern bank of the Monocacy, he joined Ram- seur in the pursuit of the enemy, capturing nearly 700 prisoners. At Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864, he held the riglit of the line of battle under cover of the woods. Upon the advance of the enemy, Rodes's and Gordon's divisions were ordered for- ward, and being reinforced by the arrival of Battle's brigade, Rodes swept through the woods and scattered the enemy, but in the very moment of victory he fell while heroically leading the at- tack. He died on the battle field of Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864.

RODGER, James George, educator, was born in Hammond, N.Y., July 4, 1852; son of Robert and Ann (Waddell) Rodger; grandson of William and Margaret (Hill) Rodger and of Henry and Ehzabeth (Ferrier) Waddell, and a descendant of the ancient Scottish clan of Rodger and of the IX. — 10

Frencli Huguenot family of Waddell who fled to England on account of religious persecutions. He was graduated from Yale college, A.B., 1876; lectured on geological subjects and taught until 1878; studied at the Harvard Divinity school, 1878-79; at the University of Leipzig, 1879-80, and was graduated from Union Theological seminary. New York city, in 1884. He was or- dained to the Presbyterian ministry May 20, 1884; was pastor at New Hamburg, N.Y., 1884- 85, and at New Haven, Conn., 1885-89. He was married Oct. 22, 1885, to M. Anna, daughter of Peter and Sarah (Foster) Waddell of Nortlnim- berland, England. He continued his studies in the Universities of Edinburgh and Berlin, 1889- 93; was pastor at Ogdensburg, N.Y., 1893-94; president of the National Correspondence scliool, Buffalo, N.Y., 1894-95, and of Benzouia college, Mich., from 1895 until September, 1897, when he resigned to lecture on " The Evidences of Christ- ianity from a Scientific Basis" and in 1901 was made president of the Interstate college, Hum- phreys, Mo. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Benzonia college for work done in the uni- versity of Edinburgh, 1896, and is the author of: Adoljihus, a religious drama (1897), and The Gospel of Science ( 1900).

RODGERS, Christopher Raymond Perry, naval officer, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov.

14, 1819; son of Com. George Washington and Anna Maria (Perry) Rodgers, and a nephew of Com. Oliver H. Perry, U.S.N. He was warranted midshipman in the U.S. navy, Oct. 5, 1833, and had command of the schooner Phoenix during the Seminole war in Florida, 1840-41. He was promoted lieutenant, Sept. 4, 1844; was on block- ading duty in the Gulf of Mexico in 1847-48, and took part in the siege of Vera Cruz and the cap- ture of Tabasco and Tuspan. He commanded the steamer Bibb and the schooner Gallatin on the U.S. coast survey, 1856-57; was promoted com- mander, Oct.

15, 1861; com- manded the Wa- bash as fleet-cap- tain under Rear- Admiral Samuel F. DuPont in the battle of Port Royal: directed the fleet of gun- boats on the coast south of Port Royal, and was in command of the naval forces in the trenches at the capture of Fort Pulaski. In March, 1862, he commanded an expedition to St. Augustine and up the St. Marys river: was fleet-captain, commanding the New Ironsides in the attacks on the forts defending Charleston, April 7, 1863, and in the later opera-