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ant aljutant-genenil, Aug. S. 1S46; served on the northern fn)ntier iluring the Canada border dis- turbanees, 1S38-41; commanded the depot for rei-ruits at Fort Cohimbus. N.Y.. 1841-40, and was attached to the adjiit^int-general's office. Wash- ington, D.C.. 1S4G-51. He w;is promoted captain, April 21, 1848; was assistant adjutant-general of the Pacific division, 1851-o6; was promoted bre- vet major of staff and assistant adjutant-general, July 15, lSo.i,and served in the adjutant-general's office. Washington, D.C., 18r)r>-61. He was pro- moted lieutenant-colonel of staff and assistant adjutant-general, March 7, 1861, and served as chief of staff to General Scott, March-November, 18t)l. He wivs promoted colonel of staff and assistant adjutant-general. Aug. 3. 1861; served in the adjutant-general's office. 1861-63. and was acting adjutant-general of the army at Washing- ton. B.C.. 186:V-.S0. He was brevetted brigadier- general, U.S.A., Sept. 24, 1864. for meritorious service during the war. and major-general. March 13. ISO"), for faithful services in the adjutant- general's department: and was retired, June 15, ]8'<0. He is the author of: Catechism of the Bible —the P'-iitatetich (1859); Cateehisin of the Bible — Jiolgra and Kings (1862). and Anecdotes of the Ciril War in the United States (1884). He died in Washington. D.C.. May 11. isi93.

TOWNSEND, Frances Hodgson. (See Bur- m-tt. Frances Hodgs(in».

TOWNSEND, Frederick, soldier, was born in Albany, N.Y.. Sept.21, 1825; grandson of Solomon Townsend; great-grandson of Samuel Townsend, a meml^er of the New York provincial congress for many years and of the committee appointed to prepare a form of government for the state of New York. His ancestor. Henry Townsend, im- migrateil to Massachusetts from Norfolk, Eng- la!i-l. in 1640, and settled at Jamaica, on Long I-land. N.Y.. removing to Oyster Bay. Frederick attended a private school at Albany and Bartlett Collegiate school at Poughkeepsie. and was grad- uated from Union college, A.B., 1844. He studied law under Jolm V. L. Pruyn (q.v.); was admitted t" the bar in 1840. and practised in Albaiiy. 1856-57, wlien he was appointed adjutant-general of New York, anil devoted himself to military organiza- tion in the state. In 1861 he organized the 3d regiment. N.Y''. volunteers, of which he was com- missioned colonel, and which he led in the battle of Big Bethel. June 10. 1861. He was appointed major of the 18th U.S. infantry, Aug. 19, 1861, and served under Generals Buell an<l Rosecrans in the west, taking part in the battles of Lick Creek. Miss.; in the siege and occupation of Corinth. April-May, 1862. and the battle of Perry- ville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1862. and at the battle of Stone's river, commanding the left wing of his (4th) brigade (Rousseau's division, Thomas's center),

arriving after Majors King and Slemmer had been wounded and Carpenter killed. The loss of his brigade in the fight was 94 killed. 497 wounded and 50 missing. He was brevetted lieutenant- colonel, colonel and brigadier-general, U.S.A.; was acting assistant provost-marshal-general at Albany, 1863-07, acting assistant inspector- general of the department of California, 1867-68; resigned his commission in 1868, and returned to Albany. He was appointed brigadier-general of state militia in 1878, and adjutant-general of the state in 1880. He was a trustee of Vassar col- lege, and other institutions. He died at Albany, N.Y.. Sept. 18, 1898.

TOWNSEND, George Alfred, author and jour- nalist, was born in Georgetown, Del., Jan. 30, 1841; son of the Rev. Dr. Stephen, M.D., and Mary (Milbourne) Townsend; grandson of Ste- phen Townsend and of Rjilph Milliourne, d. 1886, interpreter, and a descendant of John Townsend of Nassawadox, Va., who came to St. Mary's, Va.' in 1080, as interpreter for the Indian chiefs from the eastern shore, and of Richard Townsend, who was indentured to Dr. Jolm Potts of Jamestown; became burgess, councillor and assemblyman, and was of Claiborne and Ingle's party to reclaim Maryland; also of Gen. Jacob Milbourne, com- mander of New England, New Y'ork and Marj'- land, in 1688. He was graduated from the Phila- delphia high school, A.B., 1800, becoming war correspondent for the New Y''ork Herald in 1862, and writing McClellan's Peninsular and Pope's Northern Virginia campaigns. He went to Europe, lecturing and writing, 1862-64; returned to the United States in 1864, and took his old position of war correspondent on condition that he might sign his articles. He was married in December, 1805, to Bessie E., daughter of Samuel and Mary (Vandegrift) Rhodes. He lectured in this country until 1866, when he went to Europe as war correspondent for the World, to write up the Austro-Prussian war. In 1867 he began writing daily letters for the Chicago Tribune, under the name of '• Gath." He started the vil- lage of Gapland at South Mountain, Md., by building his house on the battle-ground of Cramp- ton's Gap. He wrote: The Bohemians (1862); Campaigns of a Non-Combatant (1865); Life of Garibaldi (1867); Real Life of Abraham Lincoln (1867); The Xew World Compared with the Old (1868); Poems (1870); Washington Outside and Liside (1871); Mormon Trialsat Salt Lake (1872); Washington Rebnildcd (1873); Bohemian Days (1881); Tales of the Chesapeake (1883): Poetical Addresses (1883): The Entailed Hat(\8Si); Presi- dent Cromwell (1885); Katy of Catoctin (1886); Life of Levi P. Morton (1888); Messrs. Reynolds and Hamilton (1889); Columbm in Love (1893); Poejns of Men and Events (1900).