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CARRELL, GEORGE A. 



at the earnest solicitation of his father, was re- 

 instated, and put in command of the llth Hus- 

 sars, where he reenacted the same tyrannies 

 and insults which had made him so odious in 

 his previous command. He was censured by 

 the adjutant-general; but he was so brave and 

 accomplished a soldier, and took so much pride 

 in the perfect equipment of his regiment, which 

 he accomplished mainly at his own expense, 

 that the Government did not, as they should 

 have done, cashier him for his gross offences. 

 In 1840, he fought a duel with Captain Harvey 

 G. Tuckett, who had been an officer of his regi- 

 ment, and whose wife he had seduced. Cap- 

 tain Tuckett was wounded, and Lord Cardigan 

 was indicted for felony, and tried before the 

 House of Lords, of which he was a member. 

 The trial was a miserable farce, and the Lords 

 acquitted him on an absurd technicality, but 

 really because he was a peer. At the com- 

 mencement of the Crimean War, he was pro- 

 moted to the command of the Light Cavalry 

 Brigade as major-general. No cavalry brigade 

 in Europe was ever more superbly equipped, 

 his lordship having expended many thousand 

 pounds in procuring horses alone, suitable, ac- 

 cording to his ideas, for his command. His 

 condilct during the campaign, though exhibit- 

 ing in the highest degree personal daring and 

 courage, was yet reprehensible from his need- 

 less exposure of his men, and the stubbornness 

 with which he suffered his personal piques to 

 control him. The charge of the Light Brigade, 

 under his leadership, in which six hundred 

 cavalry attacked thirty-six hundred heavy cav- 

 alry troops of the Russian army in a strong 

 position, and finally returned with a loss of 

 more than half their number, has been immor- 

 talized by Tennyson, in his " Charge at Bala- 

 klava," but was really a foolhardy performance, 

 for which there was no sufficient justification. 

 The earl was greatly censured for his conduct 

 in the Crimea. Soon after his return he was 

 appointed Inspector-General of Cavalry, a post 

 for which he was well fitted, and which he 

 retained till 1860. In 1855 he was created 

 K. 0. B. ; in 1859 was appointed to the colonelcy 

 of the 5th Dragoon Guards ; and transferred 

 in 1860 to the colonelcy of the llth Hussars, 

 which, as lieutenant-colonel, he had previously 

 commanded. He was promoted to the lieuten- 

 ant-generalship in 1861. 



OARRELL, Right Rev. GEORGE ALOYSITJS, 

 I). D., Roman Catholic Bishop of Oovington, 

 Ky., born in Philadelphia, June 13, 1803; 

 died at Covington, Ky., September 25, 1868. 

 His paternal grandfather, Timothy Carrell, a 

 native of Ireland, emigrated to Philadelphia 

 some years before the Revolutionary War, and 

 established himself in business in that city. 

 His father was born in Philadelphia, and his 

 mother was of an old Pennsylvanian family. 

 Yonng Carrell was sent to the college at Em- 

 mettsburg, Md., to study the classics, at the 

 early age of ten years; entered the college of 

 Georgetown, D. 0., in 1816, and the novitiate 



CARSON, CHRISTOPHER. 



of the Society of Jesus, at White Marsh, Md., 

 in 1820. He left the novitiate in 1822, and en- 

 tered the Theological Seminary of St. Mary's, 

 Baltimore, and, after spending two or three 

 years there, returned to Mount St. Mary's, 

 Emmettsburg, and completed his theological 

 course under Bishop Brute. He was ordained 

 priest in 1829, in Philadelphia, and spent 

 several years as pastor of churches in that 

 city, and its vicinity, and in Wilmington, Del. 

 At Wilmington, he established two excellent 

 schools. In 1835, impelled by his strong at- 

 tachment to the life of a religious community, 

 Mr. Carrell again entered a novitiate of the 

 Society of Jesus, at Florissant, Mo., and re- 

 mained there for two years, and then joined 

 the Society of St. Ignatius. In 183V he was 

 appointed a professor in the University of St. 

 Louis, and the same year pastor of the College 

 Church of St. Xavier ; in 1845 he was made 

 Rector of the University, which position he 

 held till 1848. In 1849 he was called to Cin- 

 cinnati, and made President of the Purcell 

 Mansion College for young boys, and the same 

 year became pastor of St. Xavier Church, Cin- 

 cinnati. In 1851 he took charge of the Cath- 

 olic church at Chillicothe, Ohio, for a few 

 months, but was speedly recalled to Cincin- 

 nati, where he remained as pastor and rector 

 of St. Xavier Church and College till Novem- 

 ber 1, 1853, when he was consecrated Bishop 

 of Covington. In this responsible position he 

 was a model bishop, active in promoting the 

 spiritual interests and advancement of the 

 churches of his ,diocese ; promoting, to the ut- 

 most of his ability, the instruction of the 

 young ; and, by his constant attention and gen- 

 tleness to the poor, the ignorant, the sick, and 

 the erring, winning their affections, and lead- 

 ing them to a higher and better life. 



CARSON, Brevet Brigadier-General CHRIS- 

 TOPHER, U. S. A., better known as KIT CAR- 

 SON, a famous mountaineer, trapper, and guide, 

 born in Madison County, Ky., December 24, 

 1809; died at Fort Lynn, Colorado, of a rup- 

 ture of an artery in the neck, May 23, 1868. 

 While he was yet an infant, his parents emi- 

 grated to what is now Howard County, Mo., 

 but was then an almost unbroken wilderness. 

 At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to a 

 saddler, with whom he continued two years, 

 after which he joined a hunting expedition, 

 and thus commenced the pursuit he followed 

 during the remainder of his life. For eight 

 years he was on the plains, leading the adven- 

 turous life of a trapper, which he relinquished 

 only on receiving the appointment of hunter 

 to Bent's Fort, where he continued eight years 

 more. At the expiration of this time he paid 

 a short visit to his family, and on his return 

 met, for the first time, General (then Lieuten- 

 ant) John 0. Fremont, by whom his experience 

 in the backwoods was at once appreciated, 

 and by whom, also, he was engaged as guide 

 in his subsequent explorations. In this posi- 

 tion he was eminently useful, and to him is 



