Rose crans, William Starke

(1819-1898), an American general, was graduated at West Point in 1842. Previous to the war he was a profe or at the academy, an engineer and a financier. Being appointed colonel of Ohio volunteers in 1861, he served iu West Virginia, and won the battle of Rich Mountain, July, 1861. He next succeeded McClellan in the Department of the Ohio, and gained the victory of Carnifex <. Loo,.. Ferry iu September. Appointed commander of the Army of the Mi is sippi, he conquered at Iuka, September, 1862, at Corinth, October, and succeeded Buell as commander of the Army of the Cumber land. He fought the great battle of Murfreesboro’, showed skillful strategy in the next months, and was defeated at Chick am aug a. After this Rose crans was superseded, sent to the West, and put on waiting orders. He resigned in 1867. He was Minister to Mexico, 1868-1869, Democratic Congre man from California, 1881-1885, and Register of the U. S. Treasury from 1885 to 1893. 183