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BISSELL, GEORGE EDWIN (1839– )

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BISSELL, See also:GEORGE See also:EDWIN (1839– ) , See also:American sculptor, son of a quarryman and See also:marble-cutter, was See also:born at New See also:Preston, See also:Connecticut, on the 16th of See also:February 1839. During the See also:Civil See also:War he served as a private in the 23rd Connecticut See also:volunteers in the See also:Department of the Gulf (1862–1863), and on being mustered out became acting assistant paymaster in the See also:South See also:Atlantic See also:squadron. At the See also:close of the war he joined his See also:father in business. He studied the See also:art of See also:sculpture abroad in 1875–1876, and lived much in See also:Paris during the years 1883-1896, with occasional visits to See also:America. Among his more important See also:works are the soldiers' and sailors' See also:monument, and a statue of See also:Colonel Chatfield, at See also:Waterbury, Connecticut; and statues of See also:General See also:Gates at See also:Saratoga, New See also:York, of See also:Chancellor See also:John See also:Watts in Trinity See also:churchyard, New York See also:City; of Colonel See also:Abraham de Peyster in See also:Bowling See also:Green, New York City; of Abraham See also:Lincoln at See also:Edinburgh; of See also:Burns and " Highland See also:Mary," in See also:Ayr, See also:Scotland; of Chancellor See also:James See also:Kent, in the Congressional library, See also:Washington; and of See also:President See also:Arthur in See also:Madison Square, New York City. BISSE%T, or BISSEXTUS (See also:Lat. bis, twice; sextus, See also:sixth), the See also:day intercalated by the See also:Julian See also:calendar in the February of every See also:fourth See also:year to make up the six See also:hours by which the See also:solar year was computed to exceed the year of 365 days. The day was inserted after the 24th of February, i.e. the 6th day before the calends (1st) of See also:March; there was consequently, besides the sextus, or sixth before the calends, the bis-sextus or " second sixth," our 25th of February. In See also:modern usage, with the exception of ecclesiastical calendars, the See also:intercalary day is added for convenience at the end of the See also:month, and years in which February has 29 days are called " bissextile," or leap-years.

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