Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Este, George Peabody

ESTE, George Peabody, soldier, b. in Nashua, N.H., 24 April, 1829; d. in New York city, 6 Feb., 1881. He wrote his family name Estey till he entered the army, when he adopted an older spelling. He entered Dartmouth, but left on account of illness before graduation, and, after going to California, studied law, and settled in Toledo, where he became a partner of Morrison R. Waite. He was solicitor of his county in 1860, but, entering the service as a private, became lieutenant-colonel of the 14th Ohio infantry, and in 1862 succeeded to the command. During the Atlanta campaign and afterward he led a brigade, and at Jonesboro' he averted defeat by a timely bayonet charge. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, 9 Dec., 1864, and on 26 June, 1865, was given full rank. Gen. Este resigned on 4 Dec., 1865, and afterward practised his profession in Washington, D.C. He was presented by his regiment with a sword with diamond-studded hilt.