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Greely, Adolph Washington 1844- Explorer; born in Newburyport, Mass., March 27, 1844; was liberally educated; and at the breaking out of the Civil War joined the volunteer army and served faithfully until the close of the strife, when he was commissioned a lieutenant in the regular army and assigned to the signal service. In here they suffered intensely for want of supplies which had failed to reach them. There all but six of the twenty-five died of starvation. The six, of whom Lieutenant Greely was one, were rescued by a relief party under Capt. Winfield S. Schley (q. v.) on June 22, 1884. Had the rescuers been forty-eight hours later, not one of trainerd, had penetrated to lat. 83° 24′ N., and hoisted the American flag. It was the highest northerly point that had then been attained. On the death of Gen. William Adolph W. Greely. B. Hazen (q. v.), Lieutenant Greely was appointed his successor as the head of the signal service corps, with the rank of brigadier-gener