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feated after two days of hard fighting; but on 

 Nov. 5 he made another raid, cleared Green Brier 

 County of Confederates, and captured three guns 

 and a number of prisoners. In the following 

 month he made a descent on southwestern Vir- 

 ginia and cut the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad 

 at Salem, which was the line of supplies of the 

 Confederate army under Longstreet, besides de- 

 stroying a large 

 quantity of cloth- 

 ing, military equip- 

 ments, and provi- 

 sions. The strong- 

 est effort was now 

 made to capture 

 him, but, obtain- 

 ing through a pris- 

 oner a knowledge 

 of the enemy's 

 plans, he succeed- 

 ed in getting 

 through the Con- 

 federate lines, 

 reaching the Na- 

 tional lines with 

 200 prisoners and 



150 horses. In February, 1864, Averell was 

 placed in command of the 2d Cavalry Division, 

 and he fought continuously all that spring and 

 summer. He was wounded in a skirmish at 

 Wytheville, but this interefered with his active 

 duty only a few days. In July and August he 

 was fighting in the Shenandoah valley, at Win- 

 chester, and Martinsburg, and he closed that year's 

 campaign at Mount Jackson, in September. March 

 13, 1865, he was made brevet major general for 

 gallant action at Moorfields, Va., and, the war 

 ending, he resigned. In 1866 Gen. Averell was 

 appointed United States consul general at Mont- 

 real, which post he held three years. Aug. 17, 

 1888, he was reinstated in the regular army with 

 the rank of captain, and Aug. 31 of the same 

 year was retired. In his latter years he was in- 

 terested in manufacturing. He was the inventor 

 of a system of conduits for electrical wires, and 

 in June, 1898, after litigation pending for seven- 

 teen years, the Supreme Court awarded him 

 nearly $700,000 as a result of a suit he had 

 instituted against Amzi L. Barber for his share 

 of the profits of the Barber Asphalt Paving Com- 

 pany. 



Bagnall, Benjamin, missionary, China Inland 

 Mission; Mrs. Bagnall; one child; all killed in 

 Paoting-Fu, Chi-Li province, China, July 1, 1900. 



Baily, Silas M., soldier, born in Brownsville, 

 Pa., in 1836; died in Uniontown, Pa., May 5, 

 1900. At the beginning of the civil war he organ- 

 ized a company of the 8th Pennsylvania Reserve 

 Corps, the first company to be mustered into 

 service from Greene County, and in May, 1862, 

 he was elected major of the regiment. He took 

 part in the battles of Mechanicsville and Gaines's 

 Mill, and in the latter he was seriously wounded 

 in the head. He rejoined his regiment in Mary- 

 land just before the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 

 1862. At Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, he gallantly 

 led the regiment, and was again wounded. He 

 was at once promoted to be colonel, his commis- 

 sion dating from the battle of South Mountain, 

 Sept. 14, 1862. He served also with Grant in the 

 Wilderness. On May 13, -1865, he was brevetted 

 brigadier general of volunteers for gallant and 

 meritorious service during the war. Gen. Baily 

 was a delegate to the National Republican Con- 

 vention in 1880, and was one of the 306 who 

 supported Gen. Grant. In 1881 he was elected 

 Treasurer of Pennsylvania as a Republican. 



Ball, Ebenezer Burgess, born in Loudon 

 County, Virginia, in 1817; died in Washington, 

 D. C., April 12, 1900. In 1843 he became a clerk 

 in a dry-goods store in Washington. Tiring of 

 this life, he journeyed westward, settling first on 

 the banks of Osage river in Missouri, and finally 

 in Oregon, on the site of the present town of 

 Jackson. Here he remained several years, taking 

 part in the Rogue river war, acting as Govern- 

 ment agent on the Selentry Reservation, and 

 amassing a considerable fortune as a post trader. 

 At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted, and 

 he served till its close. In the meantime he had 

 lost all his savings, and until, through the kind- 

 ness of Gen. Black, sometime Commissioner of 

 Pensions, he was enabled to establish the little 

 tobacco shop in the Pension Office he had a 

 hard fight with Fate, all his efforts to obtain a 

 place under the Government meeting with failure. 

 Till the time of his death he was a familiar figure 

 to frequenters of the Pension Office. Col. Ball 

 was related to Washington on both sides of his 

 family, and bore a striking resemblance to the 

 first President of the United States. He always 

 dressed in the uniform of a Continental general. 



Banta, William Sickles, lawyer, born in Pas- 

 cack, N. J., Dec. 12, 1824; died in Hackensack, 

 N. J., May 7, 1900. He studied under Rev. J. D. 

 Mabon, and was graduated at Rutgers College in 

 1844. He was admitted to the bar in 1847, and 

 for ten years after 1860 he was public prosecutor 

 of Bergen County, being the first Republican ever 

 appointed to that office. In 1872 he was ap- 

 pointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas, to 

 fill the uriexpired term of Judge Ashbel Green, and 

 he served for many years in this office. Judge 

 Banta was, in 1860, county superintendent of 

 public schools, and he held many local public 

 offices. He was very wealthy, and was well 

 known for his practical philanthropy. 



Barbour, John Humphrey, clergyman, born 

 in Torrington, Conn., May 29, 1854; died in Mid- 

 dletown, Conn., April 29, 1900. He was gradu- 

 ated at Trinity College in 1873. In 1876 he was 

 ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, in 1878 was admitted to the priesthood, 

 and from 1876 to 1889 was minister of Grace 

 Chapel, in Hartford. He also served as librarian 

 of Trinity College from 1882 to 1889. In 1889 he 

 accepted the chair of New Testament Literature 

 and Interpretation in Berkeley Divinity School, 

 Middletown, Conn., which he held until the time 

 of his death. He was the author of Beginnings of 

 the Historic Episcopate, and other religious works. 



Barnard, Henry, educator, born in Hartford, 

 Conn., Jan. 24, 1811 ; died there, July 5, 1900. He 

 was graduated at Yale in 1830, studied law, and 

 was admitted to the bar in 1835. He then spent 

 fifteen months in study and travel in Europe, the 

 greater part of the time in visiting educational 

 and reformatory institutions. On his return he 

 was elected to the Legislature, and in 1837 was 

 chosen to organize the common-school system of 

 the State. His first service was as secretary of 

 the State Board of Education, from 1838 till 1842. 

 He introduced schoolhouses of improved construc- 

 tion, high schools, teachers' institutes, normal 

 academies, and entirely new methods of instruc- 

 tion. From 1843 till 1849 he was school com- 

 missioner of Rhode Island, doing the same service 

 for the schools of that State that he had done 

 for those of Connecticut. In 1850 he returned 

 to his native State, and for four years he was 

 State Superintendent of Schools. From 1857 till 

 1859 he was President of the University of Wis- 

 consin, and in 1865 and 1866 president of St. 

 John's College, Annapolis, Md. The National 



