Herron, Francis

JAY, soldier, born at Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 17, 1837; graduated at the Western University of Pennsylvania, 1853: entered the Civil War as captain in the 1st Iowa Volunteers, and rose through succe ive grades to be brigadier-general of volunteers (1862); commanded the Army of the Frontier at the battles of Prairie Grove and Van Buren, and was promoted to the rank of major-general for gallant conduct. He held other important commands, and in June (1865) received the formal surrender of the trans-Mi i ippi Army and all Confederate forces W. of the Mi i ippi. He was appointed one of the commi ioners to negotiate with Indian tribes (1865), but resigned that position and also his commi ion as major-general, the same year; was U. S. Marshal for the district of Louisiana (1867-69); Secretary of State for Louisiana (1870-72). Herschel'ian, n. Pertaining to the astronomer, Herschel, or his work and discoveries.