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 STRIBLING

STROBEL

Va, At first lie was ironeil and confined in a dungeon, but later, with several of his officers, lie planned and superintended the digging of the famous tunnel that enabled lOS Union of- ficers to escape. He commanded a brigade in the fourth corps, under General Thomas, at Nash- ville, Dec. 15-16. 1864, and was later promoted brigadier-general of volunteers. After the war he engaged in business in Indianapolis, and in 1876 was an unsuccessful candidate for congress. He died near Indianapolis. Ind.. IMay 27. 1802.

STRIBLING, Cornelius Kinchiloe, naval of- ficer, was born in Pendleton. 8.C.. Sept. 22, 1790, He joined the U.S. navy as midshipman in June, 1812; was attached to the Moh a ivk on Lake On- tario ; took part in the blockade of Kingston, 1815 ; served in the Mediterranean in 1816-18 ; was pro- moted lieutenant in April, 1818 ; served on the Brazil station, 1819-20, and on the Cuban coast, in the suppression of piracy, in 1823 ; commanded the sloop Peacock, in the East Indies, 1835-37, and was promoted commander in January, 1840. He commanded the sloop Cyane, and the frigate United States, in the Pacific station, 1842-44 ; the receiving ship at Norfolk, 1844-46, and was fleet captain of the Pacific squadron, 1847-48. He was attachetl to the ship-of-the-line Ohio in 1848-50 ; was superintendent of the U.S. naval academy, 1850-53 ; was promoted captain in August. 1^53 : was commandant at the Pensacola navy-yard, 1857-59, and commanded the East India squadron, 1859-61. He was retired in De- cember. 1861 ; was a member of the board to fix the compensation of government officers and of the lighthouse board in 1862 and in 1867-72 ; was promoted commodore, July 16, 1862 ; command- ant at the Philadelpliia navy-yard, 1803-65, and commander-in-chief of the East Gulf squadron in

1865. He was promoted rear-admiral, July 25,

1866. He died at Martinsburg, Va., Jan. 17. 1880. STRINGHAM, Silas Horton, naval officer,

was born in Middletown, N.Y., Nov. 7, 1798. He was warranted midshipman, U.S.N., Nov. 15, 1809 ; took part in the battles with the Little Belt and Belvidere ; was commissioned lieutenant, Dec. 9, 1814 ; was assigned to the schooner Spark in the Mediterranean, 1815-18, and took part in the war with Algiers ; served in the sloop Cyane in the suppression of the African slave trade,1819-21; was promoted Ist lieutenant in 1821 ; was executive of- ficer on the Hornet, in the West Indies, 1821-24, and took part in the capture of the private ves- sel, Moscoic. He was promoted commander, March 3. 1831. and captain, Sept. 8. 1841 ; com- manded the U.S. navy yard at Brooklyn, N.Y., 1844-46; was in command of the .ship-of-the-line Ohio. 1847-48, and took part in the bombardment of Vera Cruz, Mexico ; commanded the U.S. navy yard at Norfolk, Va., 1848-52, and of Boston,

Mass., 1850-60. He was flag officer of the :\Ie(li- terranean squadron, 1852-56, and in 1861 was summoned to Washington to advi.se upon the war preparations and the immeiliate relief of Fort Sumter, which he urged. He was given command of the North Atlantic blockading squadron ; planned the expedition to Hatteras inlet, and, accompanied by Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, with 900 men he reduced forts Hatteras and Clarke on the inlet, and received the sur- render of the garrison, consisting of 715 men, 1000 stands of arms, and various ordnance and provisions. Stringham's action in returning with his fleet to Fort Monroe was criticised, and at his own request he was relieved of the command of the squadron. He was retired as a commo- dore, Dec. 21, 1861 ; commanded the navy yard, at Boston, 1862-65 ; was promoted rear-admiral, July 16, 1862, and was port-admiral at New York, 1870-72. lie died in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1876.

STROBEL, Edward Henry, diplomatist, was born in Chai-leston, S.C., Dec. 7, 1855; son of Maynard Davis and Caroline Lydia (Bullock) Strobel ; grandson of Martin and Eliza (Martin) Strobel and of James Bo wen and Eliza Grier (Cour- tenay) Bullock ; great-grandson of Daniel Strobel, from Lambertheim, Germany, a captain in the American Revolution ; and of James Courtenay from Newry, Ireland. He was graduated from Harvard college. A.B., 1877, LL.B., 1882, mean- while traveling in Europe, 1880-81 ; was admitted to the New York bar in 1883, and practised law in New York city, 1883-85. He was secretary of the U.S. legation at Madrid, Spain, August, 1885- March, 1890, officiating part of the time as charge d'affaires, and being detailed on special business to ]\Iorocco in 1888 and 1889 ; resided in Europe, 1890-92, and upon his return to America served as third assistant secretary of state, Washington, D.C., 1893-94. He was appointed by President Cleveland U.S. minister to Quito, Ecuador, in April, 1894 ; transferred to Chile in the following December, resigning in August, 1897, and in the same month was appointed arbitrator in the Freraut claim between France and Ciiiie. He visited Brazil, Uruguay and Argentine Republic, 1897-98 ; was appointed Bemis professor of inter- national law in Harvard Law school in 1808, and served as counsel for Chile before the United States and Chilean claims commission at Wash- ington, D.C., in 1899 and 1900. In 1903 he be- came legal adviser to the king of Siam. He was made an officer in the Legion of Honor of France, 1808, and a member of several learned societies. His i)ub!ications include: The Spanish Revolu- tion (189«). and official disiiatches and reports, especially a report on the Resumption of Specie Payments in Chile, transmitted to congress by President Cleveland.