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and Bermuda Hundred, and after the evacuation of Richmond and Petersburg, was given com- mand of the troops at Petersburg and along the Southside raih-oad, subsequently commanding the department of the Mississippi. After repeated requests for an investigation of his conduct at Five Forks, a court of inquiry was granted him, Dec. 9, 1879, by President Hayes, by which he was vindicated, Nov, 31, 1881. President Arthur authorized the publication of the findings and opinion of the court. He was brevetted brigadier- general, U.S.A., March 1.3, 1865, for Bristoe Sta- tion, and major-general the same date, for serv- ices in the field during the Rebellion. He re- signed his volunteer commission, May 27, 1865, and devoted himself to the preparation of maps and reports of his campaigns, June, 1865-July, 1866. He was a member of the board of engi- neers to examine the Washington canal, March- May, 1866, and had charge of the surveys of the upper Mississippi and of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, 1866-83, being promoted lieutenant-col- onel, March 4, 1879. He was elected a member of the American Asso- ciation for the Advance- ment of Science in 1858 ; a member of the. Amer- ican Philosophical so- 5 ciety in 1867 ; of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1874, and of the National Academy of Sciences in 1^76. A heroic statue of General Warren by Paul Gerhardt was un- veiled on Little Round Top, Gettysburg, Pa., Aug. 8, 1888. He is the WARRLN 5T/1TUE. GETTTSBuRs author of I Explovafions in Dacota Country (3 vols, 1855-56) ; Prelim- inary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dacota in the Years, 1S55-57 (1858) ; An Ac- count of the 5th Army Corps, at the Battle of Five Forks (1866), and various government reports on military and engineering subjects. See " General W^arren at Five Forks and the Court of Inquiry " in ■' Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" (Vol. IV.). He died at Newport. R.L, Aug. 8, 1882.

WARREN, Henry White, M.E. bishop, was born in Williamsburg, Mass., Jan. 4, 1831 ; son of Mather and Anna Miller (Fairfield) Warren, and brother of William Fairfield Warren (q.v.). He attended school at Wilbraham ; matriculated at Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., with the class of 1849 ; taught natural science at Amenia seminary, New York, during 1852, and

was graduated from Wesleyan with honor, A.B., 1852, A.M., 1858. He taught Latin and Greek at Wilbraham academy, 1853-55 ; was married, April 6, 1855, to Diantha A. Kilgore of Bartlett, N.H., who died, June 31, 1867, leaving two daughters and one sou, Henry Mather W^arren (Wesleyan, A.B., 1881), who became a lawyer in Philadelphia. Bishop Warren joined the New England conference, April, 1855, and served its itineracy in and about Boston, Mass., 1855-71 ; was a representative in the state legislature, 1863 ; was transferred to the Philadelphia con- ference, 1871, to the New York East conference, 1874, and back to Philadelphia in 1877. He was a delegate to the General conference, 1880, where he was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a delegate to the Methodist Ecumenical conference, 1882. He worked first among the blacks and poor whites in the south, and during his four years' residence at Atlanta, Ga., developed schools for the trades and for the study of theology and medicine. On Dec. 27,

1893, he was married, secondly, to Mrs. Elizabeth Iliff, of Denver, Colo., who founded the Iliff School of Theology in connection with the Uni- versity of Denver, and which she liberally en- dowed. Bishop Warren received the honorary degree of D.D. from Dickinson college in 1892, and LL.D. from Ohio W^esleyan university in

1894. He wrote Sunday-school lessons every week for fifteen years, and is the author of : Sights and Insights : or Knoidedge by Travel (1874); Studies of the Stars (1878); Recreations in Astronomy (1879); The Lesser Hymnal (1875); The Bible in the World's Education (1892) ; Studies in the English Bible (1894) ; Among the Forces (1898), and edited Tlie Study, 1896-1903.

WARREN, James, patriot, was born in Ply- mouth, Mass., Sept. 28, 1726; a descendant of Richard Warren, who came to America with other Pilgrims in the Mayfloioer in 1620. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1745; A.M., 1748, and became a prosperous merchant in Plymouth. He was married in 1754 to Mercy, daughter of James and Mercy (Allyne) Otis, and sister of James Otis, the orator. Mrs. Warren wrote the satires : " Squabble of the Sea Nymphs " and "The Group"; the tragedies: "The Sack of Rome " and "The Ladies of Castile," both of which were published in " Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous" (1790), and a "History of the American Revolution " (3 vols., 1805). James Warren was sheriff of Plymouth county, 1757-75 ; a representative in the general court of Massa- chusetts, 1766-74 ; member of the committee of correspondence in 1772 ; president of the provin- cial congress of Massachusetts in 1775 ; paymas- ter-general of the Revolutionary army, while it remained in Cambridge, Mass., and was major-