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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carroll , Charles , of Carrollton 1737 -1832 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Declaration of Independence . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Depew , Chauncey Mitchell , 1834 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fry , James Barnet 1827 -1894 (search)
Fry, James Barnet 1827-1894
Military officer: born in Carrollton, Green co., Ill., Feb. 22, 1827; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1847.
After serving as assistant instructor of artillery at West Point, he was assigned to the 3d Artillery, then in Mexico, where he remained till the close of the war. After doing frontier duty at various posts, he was again instructor at West Point in 1853-54, and adjutant there in 1854-59. On March 16, 1861, he was appointed assistant adjutant-general, and later in the same year became chief of staff to Gen. Irwin McDowell.
In 1861-62 he was on the staff of Gen. Don Carlos Buell.
He was appointed provost-marshal-general of the United States, March 17, 1863, and was given the rank of brigadier-general, April 21, 1864. General Fry registered 1,120,621 recruits, arrested 76,562 deserters, collected $26,366,316, and made an exact enrolment of the National forces.
He was brevetted major-general in the regular army, March 13, 1865
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Harper , Robert Goodloe 1765 -1825 (search)
Harper, Robert Goodloe 1765-1825
Senator; born in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1765; removed to North Carolina, and towards the close of the Revolutionary War served as a trooper under General Greene; graduated at Princeton in 1785; admitted to the bar in 1786; and served in Congress from 1795 to 1801.
During the War of 1812 he was in active service, attaining the rank of major-general.
Afterwards he was elected to the United States Senate from Maryland, to which place he had removed upon his marriage with the daughter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, but resigned in 1816, when he was the Federal candidate for Vice-President.
He published an Address on the British treaty in 1796, and a pamphlet on the Dispute between the United States and France in 1797.
He died in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 15, 1825.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)