was elected bishop in 1896. He has serve Corps, consisting of 15,000 men, and lectured on The Bright Side of Libby was made brigadier-general in May, 1861. Prison. This force was converted into three divisions of the Army of the Potomac, under his command, and they did gallant service McCabe, JAMES DABNEY, author; born in Richmond, Va., July 30, 1842; received an academic education. His publications in McClellan's campaign against Richmond include Fanaticism and its Resuits; Life of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson; Memoir of Gen. Albert S. Johnston; Life and Campaigns of Gen. Robert E. Lee; Planting the Wilderness; The Great Republic; History of the Grange Movement; Centennial History of the United States; Lights and Shadows of New York Life, etc. He died in Germantown, Pa., Jan. 27, 1883. McCabe, WILLIAM GORDON, educator; born in Richmond, Va., Aug. 4, 1841; graduated at the University of Virginia in 1861; served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, becoming a captain in the 3d Artillery Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. After the war he founded and became head master of the University School in Petersburg, Va., which he subsequently removed to Richmond, Va. He is the author of The Defence of Petersburg; an edition of Caesar's Gallic War; Ballads of Battle and Bravery, etc. McCall, EDWARD R., naval officer; born in Charleston, S. C., Aug. 5, 1790; entered the navy as midshipman in 1808, and in the summer of 1813 was lieutenant of the brig Enterprise. In the action with the Boxer, Sept. 4, 1813, his commander (Lieutenant Burrows) was mortally wounded, when the command devolved upon McCall, who succeeded in capturing the British vessel. For this service Congress voted him a gold medal. He was made mastercommander in 1825, and captain in 1835. He died in Bordentown, N. J., July 31. 1853. in 1862. Made captive on the day before the battle of Malvern Hills, he suffered such rigorous confinement in Richmond that he returned home in broken health, and resigned in March, 1863. He died in West Chester, Pa., Feb. 26, 1868. McCall, HUGH, military officer; born in South Carolina in 1767; joined the army in May, 1794; was promoted captain in August, 1800. When the army was reorganized in 1802 he was retained in the 2d Infantry; was brevetted major in July, 1812; and served during the second war with England. He was the author of a History of Georgia. He died in Savannah, Ga., July 9, 1824. McCalla, BowMAN HENDRY, naval officer; born in Camden, N. J., June 19, 1844; was appointed a midshipman in the navy, Nov. 30, 1861; was at the Naval Academy McCall, GEORGE ARCHIBALD, military officer; born in Philadelphia, March 16, 1802; graduated at West Point in 1822; distinguished himself in the war in Florida, and served in the war against Mexico, in which he was assistant-adju tant-general with the rank of major, at the beginning. Late in 1847 he was promoted to major of infantry; was made in 1861-64; promoted ensign, Nov. 1, 1866; inspector-general in 1850; and in April, master, Dec. 1 following; lieutenant, 1853, resigned. When the Civil War broke March 12, 1868; lieutenant-commander, out, he organized the Pennsylvania Re- March 26, 1869; commander, Nov. 3, BOWMAN HENDRY MCCALLA. 1884; and captain, March 3, 1899. In in 1875, and became a farmer. In 1877 1890, while commander of the Enterprise, he taught school at Demopolis, Ala.; in he was tried by court-martial on five charges, found guilty, and sentenced to suspension for three years and to retain his number on the list of commanders during suspension. During the war with Spain he was in command of the Marblehead, and so distinguished himself, especially by his services in Guantanamo Bay, that the President cancelled the court-martial's sentence of suspension at the request of the Secretary of the Navy, and the written petition of all his classmates. After his promotion to captain he was given command of the protected cruiser Newark, with orders to prepare her for the run to the Philippines. For the speed with which he accomplished this duty he was officially complimented by the Navy Department. When the Boxer troubles in China called for foreign intervention, Captain McCalla was ordered tc Taku, and there was placed in command of the first American detachment ordered on shore duty. On the march headed by Admiral Seymour, of the British navy, planned for the relief of the foreign legations in Peking, it was Captain McCalla's tactical skill that enabled the small force to get back to Tientsin, after the failure of the attempt. Concerning this movement Admiral Seymour said: "That my command pulled out in safety is due to Captain McCalla. The credit is his, not mine, and I shall recommend the Queen that he and his men be recommended by her to the President of the United States," and in his official report he said: "I must refer specially to Commander McCalla, of the American cruiser Newark, whose services were of the greatest value to me and all concerned. He was slightly wounded in three places, and well merits recognition." On Sept. 22, 1900, the Secretary of the Navy officially commended him for his services in the operations in China, and on March 16, 1901, he was further honored by being assigned to the command of the new battleship Kearsarge, one of the most enviable posts in the navy. He was promoted rear-admiral July 11, 1903. McCalley, HENRY, geologist; born in Madison county, Ala., Feb. 11, 1852; graduated at the University of Virginia 1878-83 was assistant Professor of Chemistry in the University of Alabama; in 1883-90 was chemist to the Geological Survey of Alabama, and also assistant State geologist; and since 1890 has been chief assistant geologist of Alabama. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers; and the author of many geological papers, maps, reports, etc. McCann, WILLIAM PENN, naval officer; born in Paris, Ky., May 4, 1830; graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1854; entered the navy with the rank of passed midshipman; was promoted lieutenant, 1855; lieutenant-commander, 1862; commander, 1866; captain, 1876; and commodore, 1887. In the Civil War he drove off the Confederate battery attacking Franklin's corps at West Point, Va., on May 2, 1862; captured the Confederate gunboat Teazer, July 4, following; was in the battle of Mobile Bay; and during the war captured several blockade-runners. In 1891 he was commissioncd an acting rear-admiral and given command of the South Pacific station. June 4, 1891, after a spirited chase, he captured at Iquique, Chile, the steamer Itata, which had taken arms and ammunition aboard at San Diego, Cal., for the Chilean revolutionists. He sent the ship and its cargo back to San Diego, and was commended by the Navy Department. He was retired in May, 1892. During On the war with Spain he was recalled to tain ranges and the most direct route to service and appointed prize commission- Puget's Sound. He was next sent on a er for the Southern District of New York. McCarthy, JUSTIN, author; born in Cork, Ireland, Nov. 22, 1830; visited the United States in 1868, and lectured for nearly three years. He is the author of Prohibitory Legislation in the United States; A History of Our Own Times; The Story of Mr. Gladstone's Life, etc. McCauley, CHARLES ADAM HOKE, ornithologist; born in Middletown, Md., July 13, 1847; graduated at West Point and appointed a second lieutenant of the 3d Artillery in 1870; transferred to the 2d Cavalry in 1878; and promoted first lieutenant in 1879. After his graduation at West Point he made a special study of ornithology, and in 1876 was appointed ornithologist in the Red River exploring expedition. His publications include Ornithology of the Red River of Texas; The San Juan Reconnaissance in Colorado and New Mexico; Reports on the White River Indian Agency, Colorado, and the Uinta Indian Agency; Pagasa Springs, Colorado: Its Geology and Botany, etc. secret mission to Santo Domingo; and in 1855 he was sent with Majors Delafield and Mordecai to Europe to study the organization of European armies and observe the war in the Crimea. Captain McClellan left the army in 1857 and engaged in civil engineering and as superintendent of railroads. He was residing in Ohio when the Civil War broke out, and was commissioned major-general of Ohio volunteers by the governor. He took command of all the troops in the Department of the Ohio; and after a brief and successful campaign in western Virginia, was appointed to the command of the National troops on the Potomac (afterwards the Army of the Potomac) and commissioned a major-general of the regular army. On the retirement of General Scott in November, 1861, he was made generalin-chief. His campaign against Richmond in 1862 with the Army of the Potomac was not successful. He afterwards drove General Lee out of Maryland, but his delay in pursuing the Confederates caused him to be superseded in command by General Burnside. General McClellan was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President of the United States against Mr. Lincoln in 1864 (see below). He resigned his commission in the army on the day of the election, Nov. 8, and took McClellan, CARSWELL, civil engineer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 3, 1835; graduated at Williams College in 1855; joined the 32d New York Regiment, and became topographical assistant on the staff of Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys in 1862. In August, 1864, he was taken prisoner, and on being paroled in the follow-up his residence in New York. After a ing November he resigned his commission. He published Personal Memoirs and Military History of Ulysses S. Grant, vs. the Record of the Army of the Potomac. McClellan, GEORGE BRINTON, military officer; born in Philadelphia, Dec. 3, 1826; graduated at West Point in 1846; was lieutenant of sappers, miners, and pontoniers in the war against Mexico, and was commended for gallantry at various points from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico. After the war he was instructor of bayonet exercise at West Point, and his Manual, translated from the French, became the text-book of the service. In 1852 he was engaged with Capt. Randolph B. Marcy (afterwards his father-in-law) and Gen. C. F. Smith in explorations and surveys of Red River, the harbors of Texas, and the western part of a proposed route for a Pacific railway; also moun visit to Europe, he became (1868) a citizen of New Jersey, and engaged in the business of an engineer. The will of Edward A. Stevens, of Hoboken, made him superintendent of the Stevens floating battery; and he was appointed superintendent of docks and piers in the city of New York, which office he resigned in 1872. In 1877 he was elected governor of New Jersey. He died in Orange, N. J., Oct. 29, 1885. Presidential Candidate.-On Aug. 29, 1864, the Democratic National Convention assembled in Chicago, Ill., and nominated General McClellan for the Presidency on the following declaration of principles: Resolved, that in the future, as in the past, we will adhere with unswerving fidelity to the Union under the Constitution, as the only solid foundation of our strength, security, and happiness as a |