See also:CHARLES See also:POMEROY See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- CHARLES POMEROY STONE (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
STONE (1824-1887)
, See also:American soldier, was See also:born in See also:Greenfield, See also:Massachusetts, on the 3oth of See also:September 1824
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He graduated at See also:West Point in 1845, and in the Mexican See also:War earned two brevets for distinguished conduct
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In 1856 he resigned from the See also:army; and in 1857-1861 he led a scientific expedition in the See also:state of Sonora, See also:Mexico
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He re-entered the service in 1861, and became a brigadier-See also:general, See also:United States See also:Volunteers, but the defeat of a detachment at See also:Ball's See also:Bluff (Oct
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21, 1861) was attributed to him, and he was imprisonedfor six months, being then released without any See also:charge being brought against him
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After serving for See also:short periods in the latter stages of the war, he resigned his See also:commission (See also:Sept
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1864)
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He was engineer and See also:superintendent of a See also:mining See also:company in See also:Virginia from 1865 to 187o, when he entered the military service of the See also:khedive of See also:Egypt, whose See also:chief of See also:staff and general aide-de-See also:camp he became, with the See also:rank of See also:lieutenant-general and the See also:title of " Ferik See also:Pasha." He returned to the United States in 1883, and resumed his See also:engineering See also:work
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He died in New See also:York See also:City on the 24th of See also:January 1887
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