The National tribune., 1886-04-29
PERSONAL.

Gen. Wager Swayne, who has been in Washing
ton for several days assisting in the investigation
the labor troubles by Representative Curtin's spe
cial committee, is lawyer who has risen to the
very highest rounds of the ladder by sheer force Of
ability character and conscientious effort He il
the son of the late Justice Noah III. Swayne of the
United States Supreme Court, man eminent for bis
legal learning and one OF President Lineon's most
trusted advisers during the whole the mar
tyr Presidents Administration. Ohio in the War VI
pronounces him the foremost among the citizens
of Ohio in putting that State IN effective shape for
the great struggle" Gen. Wager Swayne entered
the army as Major of the 43d Ohio having previously
refused the Coloneley and Lieutenant Coionelcy,
in order that his regiment might have the benefit OF
West Point graduates in training it for the field His
Colonel. l.. Kirby Smth-was killed in the bat
tie of Corinth and his Lieutenant CoIopel-Walter
F. Herrick-was promoted to Brigadier-General
which promoted Maj. Swayne to the Colonelcy, a
position that he held with credit to himself until he
was promoted to Brigadier, and subsequently to
Major General of volunteers and Colonel in the
Regular Army. he was in Pope's campaign against
New Madrid, under Rosecrans at Corinth and Iuka
and with the Army OF the Tennessee on the Atlanta
campaign. the march to the sea- and the march
through the Carolinas. He especially COM
mended for gallantry ut Resaca, where he led his
men across bridge swept by storm of rebel bull
ing of the Salkehatchie he struck by piece of
shell, which inflicted severe wound that an
ampuiaton of the right leg was necessary. After
recovering he was assigned to duty at Montgom-
cry Ala. as Assistant Commissioner of Refugees,
Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Returning
home, he resumed the practice OF the law, and rose
in his profession with the greatest rapidity. For
the last few years there have been few great cor
poration suits in any part of the country in which
(,en hos CO de he
other. He is now living in New York, and is asso-
ciated in business with Hon. J. +. Dillon formerly
Circuit Judge of the United States, the style of the
firm being Dillon & Swayne.
Col NJ S. Quay, State Treasurer of Pennsylva-
MA has been seriously i'll at his home in Beaver,
but is recovering.
Col Jasper NJ. Dresser, of Lafayette, Ind, whose
famous "Dresser's battery made for itself place
in history was in Washington last week for the
first time since the He was at the breaking
out of the war a clerk in the Land Department,
enjoying the distinction of being the first clerk APP
pointed under a Republican Administration. He
was likewise a member of the National Rifles,
then as now one of the crack" militia organiza-
tions of the District. President Lincoln's call for
IS coo three months men was published April Is,
1861 and by 9 o'clock of the same morning most of
the members were at company quarters, and by 10
o'clock the organization had reported at the War
Department ready for duty at the front. 1t was
the first company mustered into the Government
service and not only that, but was also the first
company from the North to enter upon Virginia
SOIL The National Rides passed over the bridge
and marched toward Alexandria at midnight. and
Ellsworth and his men came over about five hours
later. Col Dresser says that there is nothing he is
much more proud of than the fact that he was the
third man in his command to set foot on secession
soil with gun at ready" and the Stars and Stripes
&. guide. During the four years hard fighting
which he saw after he marched over the Potomac
and into the Old Dominion, he was under fire on