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See also:DEVENS, See also:CHARLES (1820-1891) , See also:American lawyer and jurist, was See also:born in See also:Charlestown, See also:Massachusetts, on the 4th of See also:April 1820. He graduated at Harvard See also:College in 1838, and at the Harvard See also:law school in 184o, and was admitted to the See also:bar in See also:Franklin See also:county, See also:Mass., where he practised from 1841 to 1849. In the See also:year 1848 he was a Whig member of the See also:state See also:senate, and from 1849 to 1853 was See also:United States See also:marshal for Massachusetts, in which capacity he was called upon in 1851 to See also:remand the fugitive slave, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Sims, to See also:slavery. This he See also:felt constrained to do, much against his See also:personal See also:desire; and subsequently he attempted in vain to See also:purchase Sims's freedom, and many years later appointed him to a position in the See also:department of See also:justice at See also:Washington. Devens practised law at See also:Worcester from 1853 until 1861, and throughout the See also:Civil See also:War served in the Federal See also:army, becoming See also:colonel of See also:volunteers in See also:July 1861 and brigadier-See also:general of volunteers in April 1862. At the See also:battle of See also:Ball's See also:Bluff (1861) he was severely wounded; he was again wounded at See also:Fair Oaks (1862) and at See also:Chancellorsville (1863), where he commanded a See also:division. He later distinguished himself at See also:Cold Harbor, and commanded a division in See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant's final See also:campaign in See also:Virginia (1864—65), his troops being the first to occupy See also:Richmond after its fall. Breveted See also:major-general in 1865, he remained in the army for a year as See also:commander of the military See also:district of See also:Charleston, See also:South Carolina. He was a See also:judge of the Massachusetts See also:superior See also:court from 1867 to 1873, and was an See also:associate justice of the supreme court of the state from 1873 to 1877, and again from 1881 to 1891. From 1877 to 1881 he was See also:attorney-general of the United States in the See also:cabinet of See also:President See also:Hayes. He died at See also:Boston, Mass., on the 7th of See also:January 1891.
See his Orations and Addresses, with a memoir by See also:John Codman See also:Ropes (Boston, 1891).
End of Article: DEVENS, CHARLES (1820-1891)
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