WILSON, JAMES HARRISON

(1837), American soldier; born Shaw nee town, Tl. _He graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1860, was li eutenant when the Civil War broke out, received the brevet of major in 1862 for gallantry at Fort Pulaski, Ga. and was on the staff of General Mc- - Clellan during the Antietam campaign. In 1863 he was made brigadier-general of volunteers for gallantry at Chattanooga. He did brilliant work in the Battle of the Wilderne , the siege of Petersburg in the Shenandoah campaign. He was made commander of the cavalry of the Mi i ippi division in 1864 and rendered conspicuous service at the battles of Franklin and Nashville. But it was in 1865 that he made the great raid with which his name will be foreever a ociated, the most notable cavalry movement of the war, unequaled by any other in skillful planning and bold and _ succe ful execution. In twenty-eight days he captured Selma, Montgomery, Columbus and Macon, riding 525 miles, taking 288 guns, a vast amount of munitions and provisions and 6,820 prisoners. Following the war he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the regular army in 1866 but resigned in 1870 and engaged in railroad engineering. He rejoined the service at the outbreak of the Spanish American War and was also commander of the American forces in Pekin during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. He retired with the rank of brigadier general in 1901. His publications include, Life of Andrew Alexander, 1868; Life of Charles A. Dana, 1907; and Under the Old Flag, 1912. (1828-1901), American lawyer and jurist; born Warren County, Ohio. He received an academic education, studied law and was admitted to the bar, where he speedily became eminent. He was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette County, Ind. (1860-65); judge of the Circuit Court, (1865-71) and member of Congre (1871-75). Following his withdrawal from that body he practised law in the national capital, and was connected with a number of famous cases, many of them of international bearing, as the French Spoliation cases and the Alabama Claims.