. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . or St. Louis. At daybreak he en-countered Shelbys pickets, and thereupon turned west,and marching rapidly all night reached a ridge dividing theCortois from the Huzza, where the enemy overtook himnext morning. With his two field-guns he held the pur-suers at bay until dark, when he had to descend to theplain. Here he was heavily outnumbered and nearlysurrounded, but by desperate fighting and marchingreached Harrison Station, four miles distant, where,finding a large quantity of railroad ties, he intrenchedhis command so
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. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . or St. Louis. At daybreak he en-countered Shelbys pickets, and thereupon turned west, and marching rapidly all night reached a ridge dividing theCortois from the Huzza, where the enemy overtook himnext morning. With his two field-guns he held the pur-suers at bay until dark, when he had to descend to theplain. Here he was heavily outnumbered and nearlysurrounded, but by desperate fighting and marchingreached Harrison Station, four miles distant, where, finding a large quantity of railroad ties, he intrenchedhis command so formidably that night that the next da)the enemy abandoned the pursuit. By this campaign heso delayed and crippled the invading army as to securethe safety of St. Louis, and contribute largely to Pricesexpulsion from the State. Since the war General Ewing has been conspicuous atthe bar and in Congress and as Democratic candidate foigovernor of Ohio ; for ten years past practising law suc-cessfully, chiefly in New York City. i;o OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY [volunteer). About entering into business on his own account whenthe Rebellion broke out, he halted, and his name was thefirst on the rolls of the Second Ohio Cavalry. His regi-ment was assigned to the frontier, where Private, Corporal, Sergeant, and Lieutenant Pedrick, respectively promoted, learned the art of service on the plains in engagementswith the Creeks, Cherokees, and other tribes who had es-poused the Confederate cause. His campaign that year, 1862, was active ; pitted against Sterling Price in Missouri, in larger engagements, Marmaduke in the Indian Terri- CAPTA1N WILLIAM F.GLESTON PHDR1CK. U.S.V. Captain William Egleston Pedricks ancestors—Pedric—were Anglo-Saxons, and resisted the Norman in-vasii m. In New England they antedate the Mayflower, and were fighters in King Philips war. In the Revolu-tionary War they were soldiers in Glovers MarbleheadRegiment. On Sunday, February 26, 1775, while the people ofMarblehe