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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith, Giles Alexander 1829-1876 (search)
Smith, Giles Alexander 1829-1876 Military officer; born in Jefferson county, N. Y., Sept. 29, 1829; engaged in the dry goods business in Cincinnati, O., and Bloomington, Ill.; entered the Civil War as captain in the 8th Missouri Volunteers in 1861; becoming lieutenant-colonel and colonel in 1862; brevetted brigadier-general, United States volunteers in 1863; and was later transferred to the 25th Army Corps, and became major-general of volunteers in 1865: resigned in 1866 and settled in Bloomington, Ill.; was second assistant postmastergeneral in 1869-72; and founded the Society of the Army of Tennessee. He died in Bloomington, Ill., Nov. 8, 1876.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 3: birth and early Education.—1811-26. (search)
xamination, was admitted with his next younger brother, Albert, as a member of the Boston Latin School, near the close of August, 1821. This public school, and the private academies at Exeter, N. H., and Andover, Mass., have for a long time maintained a high repute both as to quality of instruction and lists of pupils eminent in all professions. The centennial anniversary of the re-opening of the Latin School, after the evacuation of Boston by the British, was celebrated by a reunion, Nov. 8, 1876. The Latin School was, from 1821-26, under the charge of Benjamin A. Gould as head-master, and Jonathan Greely Stevenson and Frederick P. Leverett, his assistants. Joseph Palmer, the necrologist of Harvard College, and for many years connected with the Boston Advertiser, was an usher. Mr. Leverett, the author of an excellent Latin Lexicon, was the teacher whose thorough drill added much to the character of the school at that time. Charles continued his attendance at Mr. Valentine's wri