< WITT. \KII-S. AM UK KAN. ilJi.iipATH KiriUKMOK.) 



851 



ing the news, when Mil,- exclaimed Tliat amount* to 



nothing: In- ha only driven tin- Confederate* ont of 



Kurt ll.nry." At that moment I'ml. (^uinby I-IIHH- 

 ulon;,', iiinl .-ui'l . " Don't In- ini]>atirnt. youinr tfcntlc- 

 UK ii. I know that (irant , he u a determined fellow, 



und will never li-t u'o till In- ^i-t> them." A lew days 

 later .-iiiiii- HC\\I. ol tin- unconditional Mirrcndcr ol 

 Kort Doiielsoii w ith I l.i'oii men. wh'u-li inudi- (irunt 

 tiili;"Us. In April (irll. (juinhy w a- a iL-'licd to the 

 Command lit Colllllll'U.S, K V. In October, Is.l-J, hcwas 



n-licvi-d, to take coiiiinuinl of tin- 7tli division ol' the 

 Army of tin- Tennessee. The ilivi.sion was sent to 

 take part in the movement to turn the ( 'miteilerate 

 riirht Hank at YicksbuiX' by Ya/.oo pass, the Cold- 

 water, Tallahatchie, anl VH/IMI rm-r-. A mid n rent 

 ditlicultic.- (Jen. (.Juinbv pu.-hed on to Fort Peml'erton, 

 when- lie arrived on Slan-h _';;. Finding no Around 

 Muitaltle tore-ampin..' or moving a lurire l>oily of troops, 

 an. I the tire of the small irimhoats being inetlei-ttial, 



hi- i-oiieei\ eil the idea of L'oilli,' around t" the east side 



of Fort Pemhcrton, erossinir Yallabusha river on a 

 ixilit'Hiii bridge, cuttini,' the eoniiiiuiiieations of the 

 tort and compcHiiiir its surrender; hut he alsocon- 

 strueted works lorn direct attark, and sent hack to 

 Helena tor heavy trims. The boat that carried them 

 brought orders t'rom (Jen. (Irani to abandon the 

 movement hy Ya/oo pass, and (icn. (jiiinhy withdrew 

 his force t'rom hct'ore Fort I'emherton <>n April f>. 

 . The fatigues and anxieties ol' this expedition in u 

 malarious region hrou^ht on a severe illness, and he 

 wa- "fd, -re. 1 home on siek-lea\e May 1, !->;:>. But 

 learninir, a few days after reaching home, the pr<>LTe-s 

 of (irant's movement to the rear of Vickaljurg, he 

 hastened hack, assiiminir command of his division on 

 the 17th, and taking part in the a->ault of the I'.'th, 

 and the subsequent movements. On .lime.", illness 

 gain rendered mm unfit for duty in the Held, and he 



went to the North under (iranf- orders, remaining in 

 IJod.e.-tcr until July 1. He then commanded the 

 rende/vou-. at Klmira till Dee. .'!!, isr.:;, when, con- 

 vinced that he. would not ujruin he al.le to x<> to tin- 

 front, lie resigned his commission and resumed his 

 chair in the university. In May, 1st; 1 .*, he was ap- 

 [>ointcd I'nitcd States marshal lor tin- Northern Dis- 

 trict of New York, anil he held that otliee during 

 Crant's two presidential terms, holding his prof,-. or 

 ship also till Scptemher, 1884. In 1886 ''-"' he was 

 city surveyor of Rochester, lie was a trustee of the 

 Soldiers' Home at Bath, N. Y., and vice-president of 

 the lioanl from the foundation of the institution, in 

 17'.'. till liis resignation, in ISM;. In addition to his 

 ottieial duties, he was fre.|Uelit!y eni])loyed as a eon- 



sultinir engineer, (icn. Qainby married Kli/aheth 

 (1. (ianlm-r, daughter of den. John ].. (iardner. Q. 8. 

 A., and she and nine children survive him. lie re- 

 vised and rewrote several ot the works in thcKobin- 

 son course of mathematics, and the treatise on the 

 calculus is wholly his. 



Eedpath, James, journalist. l>orn in Berwick-on- 

 Tweed. l-jiirland. ing. 11. \ *:',:>, ; died in New York 

 city. Feh. lo. is'.ii. I!,- received a common-school 

 education, removed with his parents to Detroit, Mich., 

 in ls|s, .] lu-came connected with the New York 

 "Tribune "in K>--'. lie soon iml.ihed the sj.irit of 

 the aiitislavery Uiritatioii. and in 1^:.:, went to Kaiisa.-, 

 where he took part in the Free-soil movement, and 

 corresponded regularly with several Northern ne\\s- 

 paper>. After two years' residence in Kali>as he de- 

 termined to make a personal investigation of slavery 

 in the Southern States, and in doinir so he associated 

 a^ cl,,-,-l\ as possihle with the actual daily life of the 

 slaves. This tour made him more (him ever an 

 abolitionist, and prompted him to join with others in 

 or^ani/.inir u scheme for the coloni/ation of slaves in 

 Huyti. lie made two trips to Hayti to facilitate this 

 ohject. and was appointed hy the llaytian (iovcrn- 

 meiit its emigration airetit in the I'liited States, and 

 also its consul ut Philadelphia. The hieakinir out <>f 

 the civil war prevented the consummation of his pur- 

 pose. He was one of' the earliest war con-esjM.iideiits 

 at the front, und remained in the Held, principally 



with the uriiiicit ot (.en.. Micrmun and Thorn**, til) 



the el., -e .,1 the wur. He th<tl, Under otlieiul u- 

 Illellt, nettled ill (hull. 



.t education, and n or^arn/ed the olitcutioiml n\ tem 

 ol the city and cMahllshcd nch'ioU lor colored JTOOth. 

 In l-;s lie removed to Iti.Mon und estuhlii-hcd the 



Lyceum I'ureiiu. thrmi^li the :^<-ii<-\ \ whu-Jj In- m 

 Irodiiced se\erul well-known Iectiiri-rs and r>->. 

 the American pul.lic. Alter M \erul HUcc-*Mu| M . u 

 son, he -old his I.U.MIH-^ to Major J. U. Pond. \iy 

 whom it is still continued. In 1^7^ he mad.- a ti.n'r 

 ol the South in adv.M-aev of tin- re-election . : 

 dent (irant, and in Is7.; DWMM se.-r.taiy ot the Teller 

 Senate oininitteeon I II VeM ii'atlon of A 1'lcj/ed Klection 

 Frauds in Louisiana. MisMsnippi. imd other Southcni 



Mate>. In 1^77 he estal.lished u lie>|,aper sviidii-ute 



in \\ashinirton.which proved u failure, aft e'r which 

 he resumed editorial work on the New York 

 uric," hy which he was sent to Ireland to report on 

 the famine ol IVT'.i '-o. While in I-eland he I.ecame 

 strongly attached to the Land Lci.^ue iu'rty and to 

 the principle of home rule, und after u short" visit to 

 the United State.- he returned to aid the prom, 

 the Irish movement. Hi* ctl<>rt> \\ith voice and |n-n 

 aided in swellintr materially the famine relief I und 

 collected in the I'nited States. Soon alter hm return 



he established a Weekly new-paper in .New York 

 city, which lived two years. He then was employed 

 on the "North American lieview.' 1 and became" an 

 advocate o| Henry (ieor-re's land theories. In I--; 

 he had a stroke of paralysis, hut he continued hi.s 

 literary work till the accident that caused his death. 

 He made another trip to Ireland in Isss, a i,,| after- 

 ward as.-isted Jefferson Davis in ifrcj.arini: his hiMory 

 of the Southern Confederacy, and .Nil's. Davi> incom- 

 pilinir the memoirs <>| her hu>halid. Mr. I.Vdpath 

 pnhlished " Hand-hook to Kansas "i New York. 

 "The IJosiiii.' Ivlitor. or Talks with Slav-> in the 

 Southern St.- ; - F..-ho.'s of Harper's F.-rrv '' 



(Boston, 1860); "Southern Notes" i l^o,; u Guide to 

 Hayti" (1860); "The John Ilrown Invasion " , IS.KI, ; 

 "The Public Lite of <'apt. John P.rown" 

 John Brown, the Hero" (London, 18(;-_') ; and "Talks 

 about Ireland " i New York, 1881). 



Bice, Harvey, law vcr. born in Coiiway. Ma.-s., June 

 11, 18(X:i; died in Cleveland, Oh!.., Nov. 7. ls;il. He 

 was gradual ed at \Vilhams Collcire in I v >li4; removed 

 to Clevelaml, and opened a classical school in the old 

 St. Clair Academv the same y car : studied law . und 

 was admitted to (tie bar in !-_''!; and purchased the 

 newspaper now known as the "Cleveland Plain- 

 dealer" in 1828. After spending two \ear> in edi- 

 torial work, he was elected to the Ohio A-.-cmhly, 

 and soon aherward he was appointed aircnt for tlie 

 sale of the Western Keserve school land.-, of 

 acres, m the Virginia military district. In three 

 veais he sold all the lands and turned nearly ?'. 

 into the State treasury. In I*-:;:; he wu> ap|M>inted 

 clerk of the Common Pleas and the Supreme Courts in 

 Cleveland, and he held the olh'cc for seven years; in 

 Is:; | and l^!i'> he was an unsuccessful Democratic 

 candidate for ( 'on^l-e.-s ; ill 1 s.'d he was elected to the 

 S|ate Senate, where he advocated the reorganization 

 of the common -,-hool system of Ohio and the estab- 

 lishment of school libraries; and in lM;7 he planned 

 and erected at his own expense a beautiful marble 

 monument in Mission Park. Williamstow n. 

 commemorative of American forci-rn mis.-u.ns. Ih- 

 published Mount Yeinon. aiul other Pin-ms" (1858; 

 1th edition. Nature and Culture" i Boston. 



f the Western. K.-ser\ 



"Select Poems" . ISSiYi; nild "Sketches of \\ 

 Life" 



Richftrdaon, Charles A., e<litor, bom in Franklin. 

 Ma .. ict. '.'. I--.".'; died in Boston. Mas.*., Jan. 18, 

 l.-'.M. lie was educated at the State Normal Scl;..l 

 at We-ttield. and, artcr teaching f.-r - M-ral years, 

 became manai:inir editor of the "Conffrejrationalist" 

 in 1 -:>'.. and held the ollicc till hi- d ..-.h. ll.-wa.* 

 also Vice Piv-ideiit of the Conjrrejrational Club, a 

 director of the Congregational Association, and a 



