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BARKY, WILLIAM F. 



BATTLE, WILLIAM H. 



Minn., in 1857. In that year, as also in 1858, 

 he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kan- 

 sas, during the Kansas disturbances, being 

 transferred afterward to Fort Kearney, Neb. 

 During the year 1858 he was a member of the 

 board to revise the system of light artillery 

 practice, which was adopted on March 6, 1860. 

 The year 1861, the breaking out of the civil 

 war, found him at the arsenal in Washington, 

 D. 0. He soon went into active service, as- 

 sisting the same year in the defense of Fort 

 Pickens, Fla., as major of the Fifth Artillery. 

 He passed through the Manassas campaign as 

 chief of artillery in the army of Brigadier- 

 General McDowell, and was at the first battle 

 of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. He was chief of 

 artillery in the Army of the Potomac from 

 July 27, 1861, to August 27, 1862, and organ- 

 ized its artillery. On August 20, 1861, he was 

 appointed brigadier-general of United States 

 volunteers, and was in the defense of Wash- 

 ington, D. 0., until March, 1862. He took a lead- 

 ing part in the Virginia peninsular campaign 

 until August, 1863, being in the siege of York- 

 town, at the battle of Gaines's Mill, the skirmish 

 of Mechanicsville, the battle of Charles City 

 Cross Roads, the Malvern Hill contest, and 

 at Harrison's Landing. From the end of that 

 campaign until 1864 he was chief of artillery 

 of the defenses of Washington, D. C., having 

 been appointed lieutenant-colonel of the First 

 Artillery on August 1, 1863. He was assigned 

 to the command at Pittsburgh, Pa., and Wheel- 

 ing, W. Va., against a threatened cavalry raid 

 in May, 1863, and was next appointed chief of 

 artillery on General Sherman's staff, command- 

 ing the military division of the Mississippi 

 from March, 1864, to June, 1866. From May 

 to September, 1864, he was with the invading 

 army in Georgia, and took part in the action 

 of Tunnel Hill. On September 1, 1864, he 

 was made brevet major-general of volunteers 

 and colonel by brevet for gallant conduct at 

 Rocky-Faced Ridge. He was also at Resaca, 

 the battle of Kenesaw Mountain, New Hope 

 Church action, the skirmish of Peach-Tree 

 Creek, and the battle and siege of Atlanta. 

 In the Northern Georgia and Alabama cam- 

 paigns he passed through the battles of Jones- 

 boro, Lovejoy Station, and the skirmishes of 

 Snake's Creek Gap, Ship's Gap, and Rome. 

 From February to April, 1865, he was in the 

 Carolina campaign at the battles of Averys- 

 boro and Bentonville. On March 13, 1865, he 

 was made brevet brigadier-general in the Unit- 

 ed States army for his services in the cam- 

 paign ending with the surrender of the army 

 under General J. E. Johnston, and on the 

 same day was made brevet major-general for 

 gallant conduct in the field. On December 

 11, 1865, he was appointed colonel in the Sec- 

 ond Artillery, and was in command of the 

 Northern frontier pending the Fenian raids of 

 1866. On January 15th of that year he was 

 mustered out of the volunteer service. He 

 served on the Northern frontier to September, 



1867, and then commanded the Artillery School 

 of Practice at Fortress Monroe to March 5, 

 1877, when he was appointed to the command 

 at Fort McHenry. During the labor riots of 

 1877 he rendered valuable service at Camden 

 Station. He was the author, in conjunction 

 with General J. G. Barnard, of a work pub- 

 lished in 1863 entitled "Reports of the En- 

 gineer and Artillery Operations of the Army 

 of the Potomac from its Organization to the 

 Close of the Peninsular Campaign." 



BATTLE, Judge WILLIAM HOEN, a highly 

 honored citizen and jurist, born in Edgecombe 

 County, North Carolina, October 17, 1802, 

 died at Chapel Hill, March 17th. At the age 

 of sixteen years he entered the university at 

 Chapel Hill, and in two years graduated with 

 high honors, with a class some of whose mem- 

 bers subsequently manifested distinguished 

 ability. On leaving the university he entered 

 the office of Chief Justice Henderson and pre- 

 pared himself to practice at the bar. At the 

 end of three years he was admitted, and mani- 

 fested such proficiency that he was at once 

 advanced to both county and Superior Court 

 practice. He opened his office in Louisburg. 

 The early years of his professional life were 

 not full of promise. But, with pride and plea- 

 sure, he was wont to attribute his final success 

 to the encouraging influence and superior char- 

 acter of his wife, a daughter of Kemp Plum- 

 mer, a distinguished lawyer of Warrenton, 

 with whom he was married in 1827. He rep- 

 resented Franklin County in the House of 

 Commons in 1833-'34, and, associated with 

 Thomas P. Devereux, Esq., reported the Su- 

 preme Court decisions from December, 1834, 

 to December, 1839, inclusive. In 1835 he was 

 associated with Governor Iredell and Judge 

 Nash in preparing the Revised Statutes of 

 North Carolina, and personally superintended 

 the printing of that work in Boston. He re- 

 moved to Raleigh in 1839, and the same year 

 was a delegate to the Convention which nomi- 

 nated William Henry Harrison for President 

 of the United States. In politics he was a 

 Whig, but was never a partisan, and his politi- 

 cal career ended with his elevation to the judi- 

 ciary. In August, 1840, a vacancy occurred on 

 the bench of the Superior Court of the State, 

 and he was appointed by Governor Dudley to 

 fill it, and subsequently elected by the Legis- 

 lature. In 1843 he removed to Chapel Hill, 

 and in 1845 was elected by the Trustees to the 

 professorship of law in the university, which 

 b.e continued to hold until the institution went 

 down in 1871, after which he closed his law 

 school and removed to Raleigh. In May, 1848, 

 a vacancy occurred on the bench of the Su- 

 preme Court, and he was appointed by the 

 Governor to fill it, but not confirmed by the 

 Legislature, because there were already three 

 judges of the Court residing in the same coun- 

 ty ; but he was again elected to the Superior 

 Court, where another vacancy occurred, by 

 the same Legislature. This position he accept- 



