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colonel, being commissioned in March, 1863. He was wounded three times during the battle of Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, and was officially commended in the report of General Ramseur for his chivalry and for remaining with his command An image should appear at this position in the text. till he was exhausted. He joined his regiment in 1864 after their return from Pennsylvania and took part in the battles of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania. In the battle of May 12. 1864. he was again in Ramseur's brigade and for his part in the battle received the thanks of Generals Lee and Ewell on the field. After this battle he was promoted to the command of the brigade composed of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 14th and 30th N.C. regiments, notwithstanding the fact that he was junior colonel. After the battle of Cold Harbor he was detailed to the relief of Lynchburg, serving in Early's corps and was with that general in the Maryland expedition in the battle of Monocacy and in the Shenandoah campaign of the fall of 1864. He then joined the army of northern Virginia before Petersburg and was with Gordon's corps in the attempt to break the Federal lines at Fort Steadman. He led the division to the last charge at Appomattox and with his brigade was covering the retreat when he was called to the rear. In executing this maneuver his brigade faced about with the steadiness of veterans on parade and poured so sudden and deadly a volley into the ranks of the overwhelming numbers of Federals pressing the retreat, as temporarily to check their attempt to capture the command. He received eleven wounds during his service in the Confederate army and after the surrender resumed the practice of law in Raleigh, N.C. He was president of the Chatham Coalfield railroad; solicitor of the Raleigh district for six years; chairman of the Democratic state executive committee for five years; a delegate for the state at large to the Democratic national convention of 1876; circuit judge of the 6th judicial district of North Carolina, 1877-80; representative in the 47th, 48th and 49th congresses, 1881-87, and secretary of the United States senate as successor to Gen. Anson G. McCook, serving in the 3d and succeeding congresses. He was married in 1857 to a daughter of James S. Battle of Edgecombe county, and after her death in 1880 he was married to Fannie A., daughter of the Rt. Rev. T. B. Lyman of Raleigh. N.C.

COXE, Alfred Conkling, jurist, was born in Auburn, N.Y.; son of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Han- son and Eliza (Conkling) Coxe; and grandson of the Rev. Samuel Hanson and Abiah Hyde (Cleve- land) Cox, and of the Hon. Alfred and Eliza (Cockburn) Conkling. He was prepared for college at the schools in Utica and at Oxford academy, was graduated at Hamilton college in 1868, studied law and was admitted to the bar the same year. He practised in Utica, 1868–82. He was appointed U.S. district judge for the northern district of New York by President Arthur in the spring of 1882, a position held by his grandfather, Alfred Conkling, half a century before. He was married in 1878 to Maryette, daughter of Judge Charles H. Doolittle of Utica, N.Y. Judge Coxe was appointed a manager of the Utica state hospital by Governor Cornell in 1880.

COXE, Arthur Cleveland, second bishop of western New York and 74th in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Mendham, N.J., May 10, 1818: son of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Hanson and Abiah Hyde (Cleveland) Cox.^[1]

Having early connected himself with the Episcopal An image should appear at this position in the text. church, as the result of earnest study and strong conviction, he passed immediately from the University of the City of New York, where he was grad- uated valedictorian in 1838, to the study of Hebrew and Greek under Prof. Isaac Nordheimer; and in 1840 to the General theological semi- nary, where he com- pleted his course in 1841. He was admitted to the diaconate June 27, 1841, and advanced to the priesthood Sept. 25.1842. In September, 1841, he was married to Katherine Cleveland, daughter of Simeon Hyde. He served during his diaconate at St. Ann's. Morrisania. N.Y. Removing to Hartford, Conn., where he was priested, he took charge of St. John's church, remaining there until 1854, when he became rector of Grace church. Baltimore,

Md. In 1851 he visited England and attended