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under Bragg at Pensiicohi, Fla., lie transferred the regiment to Virginia, reaching Manassas on the day of the battle, Julj' 21, 186L He was promoted brigadier-general in the fall of 186L and commanded tlieSth brigade, Ewell's division, Jackson's army, in the valley, May and June, 18G3, and was present at Cross Keys, June 8, and Port Republic, June 9th, and at the seven days' battles on the Peninsula, June 25-July 1, 1863. He was promoted major-general at the request of Gen. T. J. Jackson, and was assigned by I*resideut Davis to the command of the district of West Louisiana. In October he concentrated his forces, numbering 5000 men, on the Teche below Franklin, to oppose the movements of Gen- eral Banks, and after making a stand at Fort Bris- land, January 13, he fell back on Franklin and encountered General Grover's army at Irish Bend, where they joined battle. Jan. 14, 1863. Upon the arrival of the Federal gunboats he was forced to fall back, but after recruiting and reorganiz- ing his army he surprised and captured the Federal garrisons at Brashear City and Bayou Bceuf, and actually cut off the Federal connec- tion with New Orleans. After the fall of Port Hudson he crossed Berwick Baj' on January 21, with his large aggregation of captured supplies, and made a stand on the lower Teche, where he remained in possession of the territory between Simsport and Opelousas, undisturbed, until I\Iarch 12, 1864. wlien the 19th corps drove him back to Bayou Bteuf covering Alexandria. On March 18, he evacuated Alexandria and removed all the sup- plies and munitions of war to about thirty -six miles above that place. On the 21st, Mower captured the 2d Louisiana cavalry, and on April 5, Taylor wa.s at Mansfield with 16.000 men. Choosing his position, he formed a line of battle with three divisions, 11,000 strong, at Sabine Cross Roads, and the battle of Mansfield followed, April 8, 1864, when the Federal army was routed and 22 guns, 200 wagons and 2500 prisoners were cap- tured. The next day he attacked Banks at Pleas- ant Hill, and in the battle both sides claimed a victorv and both armies were at times repulsed and thrown into confusion. During the 10th and 11th Taylor withdrew to Mansfield, and Banks to Grand fecore. Taylor was relieved of his conmiand and ordered to join Kirby Smitli in the expedition against Steele in Arkansas. He was, however, promoted lieutenant-general in the summer of 1864. and commanded the forces at Savannah. Ga., opposing the march of General Sherman's army to the sea and in Carolina, He was given command of the department of Ala- bama and Mississipj)i. and commanded the troops in the defence of Mobile, an<l on May 8, 1865, he surrendered the remaining forces of the Con- federacy east of the Missi.ssippi to Gen. E. R. S.

Canby at Citronelle, Ala. Ho settled in Pasca- goula. La., where he was interested in the Caron- delet canal and other commercial investments, and in efforts to effect the reconstruction of the state. He was sent to Eux'ope in 1873 in the in- terest of Southern capitalists. In 1875, upon the death of his wife, he removed with his three daughters to Winchester, Va., where his sister Elizabeth (Mrs. Philip Dandridge) resided. He wrote his views on the civil war and its con- sequences in Destruction aiid Reconstruction (1878). He died while completing this work in New York city, April 17, 1879.

TAYLOR, Robert Love, governor of Ten- nessee, was born in Happy Vallej', Sycamore Shoals, E. Tenn., July 31, 1850; son of the Hon. Nathaniel Green (1819-1887) and Emma(Haynes) Taylor. He was brought up on a farm; attended schools in Athens, Tenn., and Pennington, N.J., and subsequently engaged in making bar iron and in tobacco raising. He studied law in Joues- boro, Tenn., 1876-78; \vas a Democratic repre- sentative from the first Tennessee district, in the 46th congress, 1879-81, and defeated for re-elec- tion in 1880 and 1882. He was married, in 1880, to Sarah L. Baird of Asheville, N.C., making his home in Johnson City, Tenn., where he prac- tised law. He was elector-at-large on the Cleve- land and Hendricks ticket, 1884; served as U.S. pension agent at Knoxville, Tenn., 1885-87; was elected Democratic governor of Tennessee in 1886, his brother, Alfred A. Taylor (q.v.), being his opponent. He served as governor, 1887-01, and again, 1897-99, meanwhile practising law in Chat- tanooga, Tenn., and serving a second time as elector-at-large on the Democratic ticket in 1892. He was the unsuccessful nominee for U.S. sen- ator in the latter year, his position as elector-at- large handicapping his personal canvass as a can- didate. In 1892 he made a lecture tour of the southern and western states on " The Fiddle and tiie Bow." He is the author of: Bob Taijlor's Tales.

TAYLOR, Samuel Harvey, educator, was born in Londonderry, N.H., Oct. 3. 1807. He was grad- uated from Dartmouth, A.B., 1832. A.M.. 1835, and from Andover Theological seminary in, 1837. He taught at Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., 1833-35, was a tutor at Dartmouth, 1836-37, and in 1838 became principal of Pliillips academy, Andover, Mass., a position he held until his death. In 1853 he succeeded Bela B. Andrews as an editor of Bibliotheca Sacra. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Brown in 1854. In the selection of names for a place in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York uni- versity, October, 1900, his name in Class C, Edu- cators, received one vote in a class of fifteen presented. He translated Kreh's "Guide for