e Senate of Kentucky, and after serving through the
stormy session of 1861 he resigned, to raise a regiment for the war.
In June, 1861, he was commissioned a Colonel, and in October of the
same year was made a Brigadier General. In October of the following
year he was promoted to the rank of Major General for his gallantry in
the battles of Shiloh and Stone River. In 1865 he was elected a
Representative from Kentucky to the Thirty-Ninth Congress. At the
close of his Congressional term he was commissioned a Brigadier
General in the Regular Army, and assigned to the command of the newly
acquired possessions of the United States in the North-west.--31, 151,
572, 573, 574.

_WILLARD SAULSBURY_ was born in Kent County, Delaware, June 2, 1820.
He was educated at Delaware College and Dickinson College. Having
studied law, he was admitted to the bar in 1845. In 1850 he was
appointed Attorney General of Delaware, and held the office five
years. In 1859 he was elected a United States Senator from Delaware,
and was re-elected in 1865 for the term ending in 1871.--24, 44, 124,
127, 136, 192, 219, 287, 306, 405, 456, 458, 496, 531, 534, 548.

PHILETUS SAWYER was born in Whiting, Addison County, Vermont. After
receiving a common-school and business education, he removed to
Wisconsin and engaged in the lumber trade. In 1857 and 1861 he was
elected to the Wisconsin Legislature. He served as Mayor of Oshkosh in
1863 and 1864. In the latter year he was elected a Representative from
Wisconsin to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was re-elected in 1866.

ROBERT C. SCHENCK was born in Franklin, Ohio, October 4, 1809. He
graduated at Miami University in 1827. He studied law under Thomas
Corwin, and was admitted to the bar in 1831. He was elected to the
Ohio Legislature in 1841, and served two terms. In 1842 he was elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Twenty-Eighth Congress, and served
four successive terms. At the close of Thirty-First Congress, in 1851,
he was appointed by President Fillmore Minister to Brazil, and
negotiated several important treaties with South American Governments.
After his return in 1853, he became largely interested in railroad
enterprises, and was President of a line from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to
the Mississippi. At the breaking out of the rebellion he offered his
services to the Government, and was commissioned a Brigadier General,
May 17, 1861. He was in numerous engagements, including both the Bull
Run battles