HOWARD, OLIVER OTIS

(18301909), an American soldier, 6. in Leeds, Me. He graduated from the West Point military academy, in 1854, was profe or of mathematics there during 1857-61 after which he went to the front as a colonel of Volunteers, having command of the Third Maine Regiment. He participated in the battles of Antietam and Fred ericks burg and led the 11th and 12th corps at Chancellorville and Gettysburg. Later he had command of the Army of the Tenne ee, and during Sherman’s ‘march to the sea’ he had command of the right wing of Sherman’s force. After the war he was for a while president of Howard University, an educational institution for negroes in Washington, D. O., which was named in his honor. In 1886 he was promoted to the rank of major-general in the regular army. He wrote Donald’s School Days, 1879 and Fighting for Humanity, 1898.