United States general, born Whitefield, New Hampshire, 1823; died Nashua, 1874. He served in the Mexican War of 1846, and in the Civil War, and distinguished himself in the defense of Fort Sumter and the capture of Savannah. In 1861 he was received into the Catholic Church.
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