Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-18
general uuitehcl.

He became q cadet at WEISS Point IN The
year 1926, and graduatedon the 9Oth day
Of June, 1929, in a class of forty-six
among whom were RoBERT E. LEE and
JosEPH E. Johnston, both Generals in
the Rebel service. On the LIST Of July,
1929, he was promoted to a brevet Second
Lieutenancy in the Second United States
Artillery, and during the same day re-
ceived his full commission for that rank.
On the Both day Of August, 1929, be
was appointed Acting Assistant Profess
sor of Mathematics at the Military Acad-
envy of West Point, which position he
retained until the 2sth of August, 1881.
He resigned his military rank on the 30th
day of September, 1892 He then began
the study of the law, and practiced as a
counsellor at law in the city of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, from 1882 to 1884. He next
became Professor of Mathematics,
Philosophy and Astronomy, at the Gin
cinnati College, in Ohio, which position
he held for ten years, viz from 1884 to
1874. During that time, viz from 1886
to 1887, he was the Chief Engineered the
Little Miami Railroad, and in 1871 was
appointed a member of the Board of
Visitors to the Military Academy at
West Point
He became the founder and director of
the Observatory in Cincinnati in 1916,
and retained the latter position for sew
eral years, during which time he edited
and published noted Astronomical
journal entitled the Side,iaz Messenger.
From 1S47 to 184s he held the position of
Adjutant- General of the State of Ohio;
and in 1948 was appointed Chief Engi-
neer, of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad,
which position he held for some length of
time.
Since then he has been for some years
connected with the Dudley Observatory,
at Albany, as director, which position he
held when, on the occasion of the grand
Union Square meeting, New York, about
this time last year, he made his noted
speech that was rendered so remarkable
for its fiery eloquence and strong deyo-
ton to the Union.
The rush to arms had commenced, and
on the ninth of August, 1861, ORMsBY
M. mitchell was commissioned Briga-
der General of Volunteers.
He was then ordered to report to the
commander of the new Department of the
Ohio, which embraced his native State.
Many of the loyal Kentuckians rushed to
his standard, and we soon find him in
command of brigade, next a division,
and next column of General BULLS
forces. He had previously been under
the commands of Generals ANDERSON and
SHERMAN, in the Department.
After the occupation of Nashville he
moved down the railroad leading from
that city to Chattanooga, where he was
doubtless expected; but suddenly, and
without any previous notice of his move
ments, we find his force to have turned
on to a branch line to Fayetteville, and,
by a grand forced march across the coun-
try, he turns up in possession of point
of their main Southern trunk line of rail-
road-the Rebels principal route Of COM
munication-m midway between their two
principal points of occupation at Chatta-
nooga and Corinth. Here he seized
quantity of rolling stock, and by its aid
he secured "One hundred miles OF the
railroad"
Having removed from Huntsville to
Florence and Decatur, destroying as he
went the railroad bridges and cOnnec-
tons, in order TO prevent pursuit and
cut off all reinforcements from the reb-
els, we next find the bold and dashing
astronomer soldier at Iuka, in the State
of mississippi, in there Of BEAUREoAED's
left flank, and but twenty miles distant
from him
General MITCHELL like many of our
more prominent generals, is also an au-
thor. He has sent forth TO the world
several Of the finest astronomical works,
some Of which have been reprinted in
popular form in England and on the Eu-
ropesn continent.
Since the evacuation Of Corinth, he
has greatly assisted in the operations in
the West. He recently defeated the