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appointed to the Military Academy
from Illinois; graduated in 1877; was
! assigned to the Twelfth Infantry, be-
coming Captain Of this regiment in
1896, and in July, 1898, was appointed
Major General and Inspector General,
u. S. A
Major Mills served in a number of
| Indians wars in the West from 1872
to 1882; was military attache to the
scandinavian countries, and as aide
| de-camp of Major General Rueer was
engaged in the revision of drill regn-
lations.. -&ras
Charles Denby was born in 1880 at
Mount Ivy, Va; was a student at
Georgetown University, and is LII. D.
of that institute. Graduated at the Vir-
ginia Military Institute. Taught school
in Alabama two years. Took up his
residence at Evansville, Ind, in 1873,
and has ever since resided there. 1s
| by profession a lawyer. Was Lieuten-
ant Colonel in the Forty-second Indi-
ana, and afterward Colonel of the
Eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers.
Was appointed by President Cleve-
land Minister to China on April 8,
1889, and remained in that capacity at
TeKlng until July IL, 1898.
General James A. Beaver was born in
Percy County, Pa, October p, 1887
graduated at jefferson College in West
ern Pennsylvania in 1856; studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1859,
and practiced law at Bellefonte. He
| belongs to military company of
which Governor Curtis was Captain,
and when the Civil War broke out
entered the Union Army at the first
call for three years; after expiration
of the term re-entered the army as
Lieutenant Colonel of the Forty-fifth
Pennsylvania. After brief service with
the Forty-fifth he was offered com
mand of the One Hundred and Forty
eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, and
joined the Army of the Potomac Just
| after the battle of Fredericksburg. At
Charlottesville he was shot through
the body After his recovery he re-
! Jointed his regiment; was shot again
at Spottsylvania and at Cold Harbor.
At the first assault of Petersburg was
terribly wounded by a shell; returned
to the brigade and at Reanis Station
! lost his leg. This was August %, 1864,
and of course ended General Beavers
| military service. He was mustered
out on account of wounds. General
! Beavers career since the war is so
we'll known that it is hardly neces-
sary to recapitulate it. He was elected
| Governor of Pennsylvania in 1896, and
since the end of his term, January
1891, has practiced law until the crea-
| ton of the new Appellate Court of
| Pennsylvania, of which he was a mem
! ber.
General Urbana Woodbury. of Bur-
| lingtOn, VT, was born in New Hamp-
shire July IL, 1888; moved to Vermont
in 1910. Was graduated from the COM
mon schools. Graduated in medicine
from the University of Vermont in 1859.
Enlisted in Company H, Second Yer
mont Volunteers in May, 1861, was pro-
NOTED Corporal and First Sergeant:
lost right arm at Bull Run July u,
1851: was taken prisoner and sent to
Richmond. Paroled in October, 1861,
recruited and drilled troops in Vermont
gnal exchanged in November 1S61
Captain in Eleventh Vermont Volun-
teers from December, 1862, to June,
1863. Lieutenant and Captain of Yer
mont R. G. from June 1863, to close
of the war. Mayor of Burlington 1885
ST. Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
1888 to 1890; Colonel on Governor Bah
cocks staff from 1894 to 1896
Captain Evan P. Howell was born "a
Georgia near Atlanta in 1899 He fin
ished his education at the Georgia Mill
tary Institute and the Lumpkin Law
School. He practiced law for a year
and entered the Confederate army as
| Orderly Sergeant in 1861 in the First
Georgia Regiment of Volunteers. Was
promoted to Second Lieutenant, then
First Lieutenant. When the time of
enlistment of his regiment expired. the
company Captain Howell belonged to
Immediately volunteered and elected
him Captain. He was given a light bat
terry and was stationed at Fort McAllis-
ter. While there the monitors on their
first tour south attacked Fort McAllis-
ter and Captain Howells battery was
part of the garrison. The fort was al
most dismantled by the fire from the
monitors, but the fort held out and did
not surrender. He was in all OF Tie
important battles of the Western arrny
around Chattanooga, and in the retreat
from Dalton, around Atlanta and Love
joys Station. He surrendered with
Johnston's army at the end of the war
the practice of law. He was made So
licitor of his judicial circuit in 1859.
and held this office until he was elected
to the State Senate in 1872, where he
remained till 1877, fling three terms
In 1876 he purchased a half interest in
the Atlanta Constitution, and after
ward sold a fourth interest to the late
Henry w. Grady. In 1897 Captain
Howell sold his fourth interest for
100000. Captain Howell has been per-
sonally connected with all the great en-
terprises that have Contributed 10 the
upbuilding of Atlanta since the war.
He has been a director in every new
railroad that has been built into he
city since the war. Captain Howell
has been a member of four National
Democratic Committees. He was ap-
pointed Consul to Manchester. England.
by President Cleveland during his first
term and declined the place on account
of his business.
Colonel James A Sexton was born in
Chicago. He enlisted for four months
in April. 1861 When II years OF age
he enlisted in the Fifty-first Illinois IN
fantry Volunteer Regiment May, 1862
was commissioned First Lieutenant in
the SiXty-seventh Illinois Infantry. Was
transferred to the Seventy ILL.,
nois, accepting a Captaincy of d Com
pany of what was known as the Board
OF Trade Regiment Was assigned to
Ransom's brigade, McArthur's division
seventeenth Army Corps, army OF the
tennessee, and participated in all the
campaigns, marches battles and sieges
OF that army. Colonel Sexton command