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CHARLES POMEROY STONE (1824-1887)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 956 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES
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POMEROY STONE (1824-1887)
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American soldier, was born in
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Greenfield, Massachusetts, on the 3oth of September 1824 . He graduated at West Point in 1845, and in the Mexican War earned two brevets for distinguished conduct . In 1856 he resigned from the army; and in 1857-1861 he led a scientific expedition in the state of Sonora, Mexico . He re-entered the service in 1861, and became a brigadier-general,
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United States
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Volunteers, but the defeat of a detachment at Ball's Bluff (Oct . 21, 1861) was attributed to him, and he was imprisonedfor six months, being then released without any charge being brought against him . After serving for short periods in the latter stages of the war, he resigned his commission (
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Sept . 1864) . He was engineer and superintendent of a
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mining
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company in Virginia from 1865 to 187o, when he entered the military service of the
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khedive of
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Egypt, whose chief of staff and general aide-de-camp he became, with the rank of
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lieutenant-general and the title of " Ferik
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Pasha." He returned to the United States in 1883, and resumed his
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engineering
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work . He died in New York City on the 24th of
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January 1887 .

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