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against Ceii. Don Carlo- I'.uell, and favored his ac- 

 quittal. Alter the war Col. Piatt became Washintf- 

 ton c.irre-poiident ot the Cincinnati Comm. 



jollied GOOIVU \llledTo\vn.-elid in e-tabli.-hlllL' the 



'.d " at Washinjfton, an<l in [ss> became editor 



. [lord's Ma^a/ine," New York. At the time 



ol hi- death he \\ a- en._'a_'ed with (ien. Charles M. 



Cist, of Cincinnati, in prcimrini: a life of (ien. (it-or^c 



II. Thomas. His principal publication w iis " Memoirs 



of the Mm who saved the Nation " ( ls7). 



Pike, Albert, lawyer, born in Boston. Mass., Dec. -j'.i, 

 lied 111 Washington, D. C., April -^ ivu. Ho 

 entered Harvard 

 Collcirc in Is-.-:.. 



but left before 



completing the 

 course to be- 

 come principal of 

 the Newhuryport 

 (irammar School. 

 In ls:;i he set 

 out on a tedious 

 journey to Santa 

 F6, New Mexico, 

 making consider 

 able distances on 

 foot, and spend 

 ini: the !,M-cater 

 part of the year 

 inthetrip. Dur 

 ing a part of lsi-2 he was a clerk in Santa Fe\and in Sep- 

 tember he joined a party of 45 men in an exploring ex - 

 pcdition down Peco- river, acro-s the- staked plains," 

 and to the head water-, of Bra/os river, reach ins.' Fort 

 Smith, Ark., with four companies, in December. He 

 then taught school, became associate editor ot'tlu' " Ar- 

 kansas Advocate" in 1 s::;;. and its proprietor soon after- 

 ward, and sold it t<> eiiLraire in law practice in l v :;>'.. 

 As a lawyer he soon became widely known, and. be- 

 sides having much bu.-incss as counsel tor the Indians 

 in their sale of lands to the Federal (iovernmeiit, lie 

 imnissioned to revise the statutes ot' Arkan-a-. 

 Duriiiir the Mexican War he commanded a squadron 

 of Arkansas volunteer cavalry, took part in the battle 

 of Bueiia Vista, and received the surrender of Ma- 

 pimi in 1-17. Ai the outbreak of the civil war he 

 was appointed Indian commissioner by the < 'onfed- 

 erate (iovernmeiit. negotiated treaties of alliance be- 

 tween the Confederacy and several powerful Indian 

 t ri I ies.com m anded the Department of the Indian Ter- 

 ritory and all the Indian rc.ifinicnts, and held the 



rynk of brigadier-general. He resigned from the army 

 before the close ot' the war, and became a judge of 



the Supreme ( 'ourt <>f Arkansas. In 18iiU he removed 

 to Memphis to resume the practice of law, but in the 

 following year bought an interest in, and took the 



editorship of. the " Memphis Appeal." In Isi'.s he 

 sold this interest and settled iii Washington, where 

 he practiced till l^so, when he retired from profes- 

 sional work. (ien. Pike was a Freemason, and pre- 

 pared tortile Ma-onie order nearly ''< volumes. lie 

 published Prose Sketches and Poems" i 1 s:*,4 ), und 

 contributed to Blackwood's Maira/inc" a series of 

 II vmiis to the (iods." 



inofed to be Iieiit4-tiant co|.,iiel and medical 



1'nited state.- uriny ; and in lv;;} '. ri-d all 



the armie- on the Atlantic and ( iulf cuu*i>. i 



\\ ii-hili|rton and Texan, and al-o the _' iierul h'mlMlaU 



at Fort MOIIPM-. Norfolk, and Port-mouth. DJ 



was un.-ii.Mied to duty at Fort Monroe u- consulting 



surgeon to.Ietlerson D'avi- while he was confined there. 



In late \ear- he lived in comparative retii 



though occaMonulh serving tut an cxjx-rt in n< 



lei/al case-. 



Pineton, Charles Adolphe, Maniuis de Chambrun and 

 d'Amlreville, lawyer, born in Mar\cj< i-. ilepartnu-nt 



ot l.o/ele. France.' All;/, lo. |s;;l ; died in New York 



city, Sept. 14. I V.i I. He was educated in the K.-olc 

 des Chart res and in the I'liiversity of Paris, rcccivim; 

 the deirree ot I.L. D. from the hitter, and for - 

 years was an olliecr of the household of the < 'omte de 

 Chamliord. In Is''..") he was sent to the I nit id States 

 b\ Di-oimi de riluvs. then French Minister of For- 

 eign Atlairs, to study and n-port on he causes of the 

 American civil vvar. He was cordially received by 

 President Lincoln, who invited him to be p resent at 

 the surrender ol Richmond. In Is;; he wa> ap|>oint- 

 ed h-LTal adviser to the French legation in Washing- 

 ton, and he held the otliee at the time of h\n death. 

 He was the author of " Lc IJeifilne Parlclne.'itaire " 



I.e Pouvoir Kxeeutit " ( 17^); and Dr-.it.- 

 et Libertes au.x Ktats Dab 1 * (1690). His wife was a 



^randdaii'.'htcr of Lafa\ettc. 



Pitkin, Perley Peabody, military otliccr, born in 

 Marsh fu -Id. Yt.. March :i, 1 s-ji; ; died in Mont|niier, 

 \'t.. Jlll\ -_'s. Is'.M. lie received a eomnion-.-ch-il 

 education, and spent three year.- in ^California in the 

 earl\ da\- of the jrol,! disci. \,-ry. Kcturnin^ to \'<-r- 

 niont, he settled in Fast Montpelier, which he repre- 

 sented in the Leirislature in Is.V.i and IM;O tmd at the 

 extra session at the be^innin<r of the civil war. On 

 June ii, isiil, he was commissioned <|uartcrma.-tcr of 

 the -Jd Vennont Volunteers; Feb. -jl. l-i;-j, wijs pro- 

 moted assistant c|uartcrmastcr of volunteers, with the 

 rank of captain; Auir. 'J. 1 S >'.J. promoted i|uartennas- 

 ter, with the rank of colonel; and in November fol- 

 lowing he resigned from the army to become (J uur - 



termaater-Genera] <>f N'ermont, on election l>\ the 



Legislature. While in the army he had eharire of 

 the entire wairon train of the Army of the Potomac. 

 which would have stretched out li.rty miles in a 

 straight line, durinjr the Wilderness eampaij_Mi, and 

 was also in charirc of the base ot'supiilics for tile army 



in (Jen. Grant's campaign in 1864. TiMtnnapoitation, 

 too, of many thousands of recruits and prisoners, and 

 the care of an army ot sick and wounded soldier-. ere 

 a part of his executive duties. In ISI'i.'.-'tl'.i he was re- 

 elected (Quartermaster- (ieiieral of Vermont, thus hold- 

 in .ir the otliee durinir the time the State was L'llardinir 

 its frontier aL'ain.-t the Fenians. In IsT- he repre- 

 sented Montpelier in the Legislature, and since IM;.*. 

 had been enquired in mannfaotoring. 



Plumb, Preston B., legislator, born in Delaware 

 County, Ohio. Oct. 1'J, ls".7; died in Washin^tnii. 

 D. ('..Dec. -jo. ISM), n,. .,. brought up on a fann. 

 received a district school education, and was appren- 

 ticed to the jirintcr's trade in (iambier. In 1>"' ( I he 



removed to Lcavenworth, Kansas.and in l^.'iT founded 



Pineo, Peter, physician, born in Cornwallis, Nova the town of Kni|M.ria and established the Fmnoria 



Scotia, in ls^.">; died in West Sonierville, Mass., Sept. News." In the latter > ear he \\ a- secretary of the 



10, IS'.U. At the lieirinninir of the civil war he \\ a- Free State ( '.invention in Lawrence, which repudiated 



praeticini.' medicine in Boston, and also wa- rrot'e or the Lcconipton Constitution, and in l^.v.i he was a 



of Medical .lurisiirudencc and Clinical Medicine at delegate to the Leaveiiworth Constitutional Coiiveii 



uprudeno 



the ( 'a-tleton '. Vt. Medical 'olli'ire. He was commis- 

 sioned surireon of the !'th Massachusetts X'olunteer- 

 early in l^i'.l.and \\ a- appointed brigade-surgeon of 



legate 



lion and a signer of the Constitution there framed, 

 lie was admitted to the bar in Ist'il. elected to the 

 Kan-a- A einblv in ls(!'.', where he was chairman of 



volunteers by Pre-idcnt Lincoln in Aiiirust. In the the Judiciary Committee, and was u p|>ointcd a '-'d 



Vinrinia campaign f iM'd-'i'rJ he served on the stall's 

 of (icn. James S. Wadsworth and (ien. Kufus KiiiLr: 

 in (ien. Vope's eampaitrn he was <>n the stall' of (ien. 

 McDowell ; and in the battles of Antietam and South 



lieutenant in the llth Kansas Infantry in August of 

 the latter year. l?y promotion^ he sen..'. . - .ii'tain. 

 major, and lieutenant-colonel of hi- regiment, and 

 minis* ioin-d its colonel, but wa- !! ill 



Mountain 'he was medical director of me 1st Army (n tbrough lack of a proper offloer. After the war he 



Corp- on the -tall' of (iell. Meade. Ill December. 



he was ordered to take charge i>t' the 1 >oiiL'la- (iencral 

 Hospital ill Washington ; in March. lsr,:>,, he wns pro- 



resume,! law practice, but in 1*"'>7 re-tMitero<l publ'u- 

 life as member ot the A embly. Hf wrvetl thcrw 

 t\\o \ears, in the last one as Sj>eaker. In 1S68 he 



