BIRNEY, DAVID BELL

(1825-1864), American army officer, was born at Huntsville, <Ala., and educated at And over, later studying law in Cincinnati. He began to practise in Philadelphia in 1848, and remained there for several years. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered the Union as lieutenant-colonel of the 23rd Pennsylvania Infantry. He served throughout the Peninsula campaign and greatly distinguished himself at the battles of York town and Williams burg as well as at the seccnd battle of Bull Run and the battles of Fred ericks burg and Chancellorville. He commanded the 3rd Army Corps during part of the battle of Gettysburg. 1857), reformer and political writer; ment of statute forbidding importation of slaves, 1827; settled in Kentucky for anti-slavery crusade, 1833; made New York his center, 1837. American lawyer, was born in Madison County, Alabama, and educated in Paris where he took part in the Revolution of 1848. He was appointed profe or of English literature in the college of Burges, France, and in 1861 he entered the U. S. army as a private, being promoted through all grades until he reached that of brevet major-general. He drilled the colored troops and freed the inmates of the slave prisons in Baltimore. In 1874 he moved to Wash attorney for the District of Columbia, His works include Life and Times of James G. Birney, and Plea for Civil and Religious Liberty. BARON DE (1524-92), Fr. soldier and favorite of Henry III.; grand master of Artillery (1569); marshal of France (1576); joined Henry of Navarre (1589); killed at siege of Epernay (July 26, 1592). DUKE OF (1562-1602), Fr. admiral and marshal known as (Fulmen Gallic;) finally beheaded for treason,; 7° 54’ W.), market town, King’s County, Treland; castle granted by James I. to Lawrence Parsons, ancestor of Earl of Ro e, present proprietor.