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STEWART

1849-50 and 1854-55. He joined the Confederate army in 1861, as major of the corps of artillery in the provisional Army of Tennessee, May 17, 1861; was promoted brigadier-general, Nov. 8, 1861, and upon the disablement of Gen. Charles Clark at Shiloh, he succeeded to the command of the 1st division, 1st army corps, Army of Mississippi. April 7, 1862. He commanded the 2d brigade, Cheatham's division. Army of the Mississippi, at Perry ville, Ky., Oct. 8, 1862, and at Stone's river. Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862. He was promoted major-general, June 2, 1863, com- manded a division of Buckner's corps. Army of Tennesseee, at Chickamauga. Va., Sept. 19-20, 1863, and a division of Breckinridge's corps during the Chattanooga campaign. He was promoted lieutenant-general. June 2, 1864. to succeed Gen. Leonidas Polk in command of the Army of Mis- sissippi, then operating with the Army of Ten- nessee under the commau'l of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. The Army of Mississippi subsequently became known as Stewart's corps. He was in the Atlanta campaign in north Georgia in 1864, in the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 20th, and in that of Mount Ezra church, July 28, 1864; was with Gen. John B. Hood in his campaign into Tennessee, and commanded his corps in the battles of Franklin and Nashville. After the re- treat from Nashville and retirement of General Hood, General Stewart commanded the Army of Tennessee, which was transferred to North Carolina, and united with other troops under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, and fought the battle of Cole's Farm. General Stewart was chancellor of the University of Mississippi, 1874-86, and was made a fellow of the Royal Historical society. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him V^y Cumberland university. He was appointed a member of the Chickamauga Na- tional Park commission in September, 1890.

STEWART, Alexander Turney, merchant, was born in Lisburn, Ireland, Oct. 12, 1803. His father, a farmer, died while Alexander was a boy at school, and he resided with his grandfather, an affluent linen and lace merchant. He studied theology, but abandoned it, and emigrated to the United States in 1823, settling in New York city, where he taught in a private school. He returned to Ireland on the death of his grand- father, and with the small fortune left him pur- chased a stock of fine laces and linens, and re- turned to New York. He established liimself in business at Broadway and Chambers street, and was married to Cornelia, daughter of Jacob Clinch, of New York. In 1848 his business had so increased, that he erected a large store, built of marble, on the same site, and in 1862 removed his business uptown on Broadway between Ninth and Tenth streets, at a cost of $3,000,000, and de-

voted his Chambers street store to his wholesale trade. He was reputed to have the largest an- nual income in the United States. He was chairman of the honorary commission sent to the Paris exposition by the U.S. government in 1867, and in 1869 was appointed secretary of the treas- ury by President Grant, but a law forbidding any importer from holding the office prevented his acceptance, and although he offered to deed all his business in trust and to give his profits to charity, the senate refused to change, the law. He was active in charitable works in 1846, send- ing a ship-load of provisions to the sufferers from the famine in Ireland; a vessel loaded with flour to the French sufferers from the Franco-German war, and gave $50,000, for the relief of the suf- ferers from the Chicago fire. He was one of the contributors to the suin of $100,000 presented to General Grant by the merchants in New York city, for his services during the civil war, and planned to provide an inexpensive home for working women, to which end he erectetl a large hotel at Park avenue and Thirty-third street, but died before it was completed. His other great benevolent enterprise was Garden City, Long Island, intended for homes for industrious me- chanics of a higher class. Both of these enter- prises failed, as he left no one able to fulfil his intentions regarding their arrangement. His wealth was estimated at $40,000,000. of which the bulk reverted to his wife. His marble mansion on Fifth avenue was supposed to be the finest pri- vate dwelling in America, and his extensive art gallery, which was sold at auction in 1887, was the most valuable in the country. His widow erected at Garden City, the Cathedral of the Incar- nation as a memorial of lier husband, and trans- ferred the building with an endowment of $15,000 per annum, to the diocese of Long Island. He died in New York city, April 10, 1870, and two weeks later his bodj-, interred in St. Mark's grave- yard, was stolen. His widow, after many months of anxious search, made a large payment for its return, and placed it in the crypt of the cathedral at Garden City.

STEWART, Andl-ew, representative, was born in Fayette count}-, Pa., in June, 1792. He was admitted to the bar in 1815, and became U.S. at- torney for the western district of Pennsylvania. He was a representative in the Pennsylvania legislature, and was a Democratic represen- tative in the 17th-20th, 22d and 23d, and 28th- 30th congresses, 1821-29, 1831-35 and 1843-49. He died at Uniontoum, Pa., July 16, 1872.

STEWART, Charles, naval officer, was born in Pliiladelphia, Pa.. July 28, 1778. Ho entered the merchant-marine service in 1791, and in 1793 com- manded a vessel in the Indian trade. lie was commissioned lieutenant, U.S. navy; assigned to