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The Late General Halleck

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Day
19
Month
January
Year
1872
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Public Domain
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General Halluck was a nativu of our State, where ho was bom about tho year 1810. Entering West Point in 183.3, ho gnuiuated foor ycars subsequently and wfl a'yuointed to (ie euginoer corps as second liiutou.nt. He was for about ono yoar Ass:.SiU;t Profesor of Eugineeiing ut West Tuint. He wu prowoted to his fiatHeutunancy in IStí, His flrst works wre au essay on bituiueu. and a series of leoturos on war, publishi d in 1846. In HH hu was mado M. A. by Uniun College, Bcheneotady. Serving on the lowcr California coast duriiitue ílexican War, he wm bi. atted captain. Undor tho military gcxvonuuentof Generáis Kearney, Masón, and liiloy lio was Becretary of Stuto for Cu-lifornia froou IS 17 to Deocmbur, 1849. Ia the latfir vr;ir ho was a nieinber of the California Constitutional Conviaitiou. Ho obtaincd his captaincy of engiiifurs in lijó.'}. Thcs August t'ollowin ho )ft the sevvicti, and practioed law in iSan FranoiscQ uutil the breaking out of the rebellion. At that crisis Guer il Soott sent for him to. Sun Francisco, and by that oflioe.-'t influeiioe U' vis raised to the position of niajorjeuenil August 19, 1801, and placed in cywiyuütl of the Dep irtment oi' thü Wist, ba Mrlicvn! General Hunter. Ho couimanded at the siegc of Corinth in Muy following. In July 1y ; wee recallcd to Wa.shiïigton, whurt! be ■■ introtted witli th coiuniaij'l of the armii'S of the Unitud St il s -a poíition he yicldod to General Grant in la-N. T. World, Col " x hs ijuit his smoking.

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