FOROADE-LAROQUETTE, J. L. DE. 



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m:i work fnun " Comtis " wan next executed, 

 ami henceforth his time was mainly onfji 

 in modeling portrait nail monumental Htatiu-s 

 i-il.-r-, i',,r which were in variably given 

 witliout any effort on hi* part to secure them. 

 Aiming flu- more pnnium-nt oft IK- portrait stat- 

 ues In- modeled \\ero those of " Oliver (io!d- 

 sinitli," ami " Kilniiiinl Hurke," both for Dub- 

 lin ; " Sir Charles Harry," fur tin- New Palace 

 at. \VeMmin-ter; "Lord Herbert,'' for the 

 British War-Office; "Father Matthew," for 

 rk ; "Sir Henry Marsh," for Dublin; and 

 Lord Klpliinstone," for Bombay. His later 

 works have been the group personifying Asia, 

 for tlie Prince Consort National Memorial, and 

 a colossal equestrian statue of Sir James Ou- 

 tram, which was unveiled at Calcutta in 1864. 

 Mr. I-'oley also modeled with great success a 

 statue of Stonewall Jackson, ordered by British 

 and Southern admirers of the Confederate gen- 

 eral. The latest work which engaged his at- 

 u was a statue of John Stuart Mill, in- 

 tended for the series of national statues which 

 are to be placed on the Victoria Embankment, 

 London. He was a member of the Royal Hiber- 

 nian Academy, and in 1862 was chosen a cor- 

 responding member of the Belgian Academy. 



lni:rAI>i:-LAROQUETTE, JEAN Louis 

 DE, a French cabinet minister, and a special 

 defender of the late Louis Napoleon, born in 

 Paris, in 1820; died in that city, August 16, 

 1874. He was a half-brother of Marshal do 

 St.-Arnaud, the zealous Bonapartist ; was edu- 

 cated at one of the Parisian lyceums, studied 

 law, and was admitted to the lower courts as 

 an advocate in 1841, and in 1845 read a thesis 

 before the Conference of Advocates, on " The 

 Bar under Louis XIV., 1 ' which gained him a 

 hi^'h reputation. He readily linked his for- 

 tunes with the Napoleon dynasty, and from 

 being Master of Requests to the Council of 

 State, in 1852, he was promoted steadily until 

 he became Minister of Finance in 1860. He 

 retained the latter office until November, 1861, 

 when he was replaced by M. Fould, and assigned 

 to other administrative duties. In 1863 lie 

 was sent to Algeria to investigate commercial 

 questions there, and in October of the same 

 year was appointed Vice-President of the Coun- 

 cil of State. In January, 1867, he was recalled 

 to the cabinet as Minister of Agriculture, Pub- 

 lic Works, and Commerce, and conducted the 

 International Maritime Exposition in 1868. 

 In December of that year he was invested with 

 the more responsible post of Minister of the 

 Interior, and in that capacity zealously carried 

 out the repressive measures of his imperial 

 master, curbing the press as much as he could, 

 as well as unblushingly manipulating the elec- 

 tions. Being dissatisfied with the liberal policy 

 announced in the imperial message of July, 

 1869, M. Forcade-Laroquette resigned with the 

 rest of his colleagues, but was promptly rein- 

 stated, and became a forcible defender of the 

 empire against the democracy promulgated by 

 Prince Napoleon. He went out of power at 



the advent of the Ollivier ministry, and hud 

 not subsequently been prominently before the 

 public. 



I <t>Ti:i:. .Inns CJ., Lieutenant-Colonel and 

 I'.iwet Major-General U. 8. A., Corps oi 

 neers, a brave and accomplished officer in the 

 late civil war; born at Nashua, N. II., in 1823 ; 

 died ii, the same city, September 2, 1874. He 

 graduated from West Point in 1846, ranking 

 fourth in his class; was assigned to tin 

 neers, and went with the corps to the Mexican 

 War. His gallant conduct at Contreras, Churu- 

 busco, and Molino del Rey, won him the bre- 

 vets of first-lieutenant and captain. In the last- 

 named action he was severely wounded. He 

 was Assistant Professor of Engineering at West 

 Point from 1865 to 1857, and received his com- 

 mission as first-lieutenant while there. In 1858 

 he was assigned to duty at the fortifications in 

 North and South Carolina, and was especially 

 in charge of the construction and fortifying of 

 Fort Sumter. He was commissioned captain 

 July 1, 1860, and made brevet-major for his 

 share in effecting the transfer of the garrison 

 at Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter. He was one 

 of the garrison of Fort Sumter, and, after its 

 surrender, was employed for some time on the 

 fortifications of New York harbor. October 

 23, 1861, he was commissioned brigadier-gen- 

 eral of volunteers, commanded a brigade in 

 General Burnside's expedition to North Caro- 

 lina, and took an active and prominent part in 

 the capture of Roanoke Island, February 8, 



1862, and of Newbern, on the 14th of March ; on 

 the recall of General Burnside in July, General 

 Foster became commandant of that Depart- 

 ment and of the Eighteenth Corps, and mili- 

 tary governor of Newbern. He had been pro- 

 moted to be major-general of volunteers. The 

 force under his command was barely sufficient 

 to hold his position, without entering on offen- 

 sive warfare, but he repulsed attacks upon 

 Southwest Creek, Kinston, White Hall, and 

 Goldsborough. In the autumn of 1862 he 

 was reinforced by several new regiments, and, 

 having compelled General D. H. Hill to raise 

 the siege of Newbern, he followed him to 

 Washington, N. 0., and compelled him to re- 

 treat from that point. On the 16th of July, 



1863, he was appointed to command the De- 

 partment of Virginia and North Carolina, 

 with headquarters at Fortress Monroe. On 

 the 13th of March, 1863, he had been pro- 

 moted to be major of engineers in the regular 

 army. He subsequently commanded the De- 

 partment of the Ohio (from December 12, 1863, 

 to February 9, 1864), and was compelled to 

 ask to be relieved in consequence of severe in- 

 juries from the fall of his horse ; from Feb- 

 ruary 9 to May 5, 1864, he was on sick-leave 

 at Baltimore ; commanded the Department of 

 the South from May 26, 1864, to February 11, 

 1865, cooperating efficiently with General Sher- 

 man, and preparing to assist in the reduction 

 of Charleston under Sherman's orders, when 

 an unl'onled wound caused him such suffering 



