SCIIOOLCRAFT, HENRY R. 



SEDGWICK, JOHN. 



71.* 



roar he ir.ade a jotfrney to the "West, and 



ids return with an extensive mineralogir.d and 



Jc:d collection, he published " A View of 

 the Lead Mines in Missouri," and a narrative 

 of travel, since enlarged, under the title of 



;os and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine 

 regions of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and 

 Arkansas" (1853). In 1820 he was appointed 

 geologist to an exploring expedition under 



. to the copper region of Lake Superior 

 and the Upper Mississippi, of which he pub- 

 lished an account in 1821. In the course of 

 the same year ha was appointed secretary to 

 an Indian commission at Chicago, and having 

 travelled through Illinois and along theWabash 

 and Miami Rivers, published a book of " Trav- 

 els in the Central Portions of the Mississippi 

 Valley." In 1822, having received the ap- 

 pointment of Indian Agent on the northwest- 

 ern frontier, he took up his residence at Sault 



larie near Lake Superior, and afterwards at 

 Macherian on Lake Huron, and married the 

 granddaughter of a celebrated Indian chief, 

 M:-- Johnston, a lady of remarkable beauty 

 and worth, who had been educated in Europe, 

 and was no less distinguished for her intelli- 

 gence and culture, than her personal attrac- 

 tions. From that time Mr. Schoolcraft became 

 a diligent and successful student of Indian eth- 

 nology, poetry, and history; from 1828 to 1832 

 he was a member of the Legislature of 

 Michigan, then a territory ; in the former year 

 he founded the Michigan Historical Society, 

 and in 1831 the Algic Society at Detroit ; two 

 of his lectures before which on the grammatical 

 construction of the 'Indian languages were 

 translated by M. Duponceau into French, and 

 received a gold medal from the Institute. At 

 this period of his life he published several 

 poems, lectures, and reports on Indian subjects, 

 and a grammar of the Algonquin language. In 

 he was appointed to conduct a second 

 Government expedition, and was the first to 

 discover the source of the Mississippi, of which 

 he published an account in 1834:. Two years 

 after, having been commissioned to treat with 

 tribes on the Upper Lakes, he procured from 

 them the cession of 16,000,000 acres of land to 

 the United States. After acting for several 

 years as Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and 

 chief disbursing agent for the Northern De- 

 partment, he removed to New York in 18-il ; 

 visited Europe in 1842 ; and in 1845 was ap- 

 pointed by the State Legislature to make a cen- 

 sus of the Six Nations, which was published in 

 184:8, under the title of "Notes on the Iro- 

 quois." In 1847, under an appointment by the 

 U. S. Secretary of War, h in the pre- 



paration of a work on the Indians, of which 

 six quarto volumes have appeared, entitled 

 ' Historical and Statistical Information respect- 

 ing the History, Condition, and Prospects of 

 tie Indian Tribes of the United States." 



In addition to the above publications, Mr. 

 Schoolcraft was the author of several other 

 interesting volumes rela ive to the Indian 



. the most important of w'; 

 Ke.-euivlu'S." In 1847 he \va-< iniir 



lady of South Carol:' i.ich time- 



-ided in Washington until b 

 SEALSFKALh, (';m:i.i-:s a popular n<v. 

 born in 1707, died at Solothurn, Switzerland, 

 May 2G, 18C4. His nationality has been a mat- 

 ter of much dispute ; it has been said that ho 



.n American, a German, and an English- 

 man, and by some he was supposed to 1 



ian birth. For the greater portion of his 

 lii'e. ho'.vcver. America was his home. Since 

 1844 he had resided for the most part in S 

 zsrland, and when the census of 1860 was taken 

 there, he wrote himself down as "Charles 

 Sealsfeald, citizen of the United States of Amer- 

 ica, belonging to another religion." His vigor- 

 ous, graphic, and highly characteristic novels, 



and travelling sketches, the scene of all 

 of which is chiefly in America, have found 

 translations both in England and in the United 

 States, and have been made the subject of nu- 

 merous articles in magazines and re^ 

 Most of his publications were written in 

 German ; one of the longest and most impor- 

 tant of his romances, however, appeared first 

 in English, at Philadelphia, in 1828, under the 

 title of " Tokeah ; or, the White Rose/' 

 This he afterwards translated into German, 

 and published it four years later at Zurich as 

 " The Legitimates and the Republicans." His 

 "Trans-Atlantic Travelling Sketches," "Pic- 

 tures of Life in both Hemispheres," and "South 

 aad North," abound in striking and vivid de- 

 lineations of life and character, and have been 

 surpassed by no English or American writer on 

 the like topics ; while his great Mexican novel, 

 " The Viceroy and the Aristocracy." is. perhaps, 

 the most powerful and original of all his works. 

 Toward 1830 he was for a short time in Paris 

 and London, occupied with journalism. His 

 last work appeared hi 1S42. 



SEDGWICK, Jonx, a Major- General of vol- 

 enteers in the United States Army, born in 

 Connecticut about 1815, killed near Spottsyl- 

 vania Court House, Va., May 9th, 1864. He 

 was graduated at West Point in 1837, 24th in 

 a class of fifty members, among whom were 

 Gens. Benham, Hooker, Arnold, French, and 

 others of the Federal service, and the rebel 

 Generals Bragg, Early, and Pernberton. He 

 entered the Mexican war as first lieutenant of 

 artillery, and was successively brevetted captain 

 and major for gallant conduct at Contreras, 

 Churubusco, and Chapultepec. He also dis- 

 tinguished himself at the head of his command 

 in the attack on the San Cosmo gate of the 

 city of Mexico. At the outbreak of the rebel- 

 lion he held the position of lieutenant-colonel 

 of the 2d United States cavalry. On April 

 25th, 1861, he was promoted to the colonelcy 

 of the 4th cavalry, and on August 31st was 

 commissioned a brigadier-general of volun- 

 teers and placed in command of a brigade of 

 the Army of the Potomac, which in the subse- 

 quent organization of the army was assigned to 



