EWER
EWING
in the U.S. army and joined the Confederate
army, receiving successive commissions, as lieu-
tenant-colonel, colonel and brigadier-general. He
was promoted major-general before active hostil-
ities began, and as commander of a division was a
participant in the battles of Blackburn's Ford,
•July 18, and Manassas, July 21, 1861. He then was
attached to Gen. T. J. Jackson's corps, and with
that commander took part in the several brilliant
successes at Front Royal, May 24, Cross Keys,
June 8, and Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, that led up
to the second battle of Bull Rim, Aug. 30, 1862.
At Warrenton Pike, Aug. 28, 1862, he lost a leg,
having two days before driven the Federal troops
from Manas.sas. He was present in the Maryland
campaign, including South Mountain, Sept. 14,
and Sliarpsburg, Sept. 17, 1862. When General
Jackson was fatally wounded at Chancellorsville,
May 5, 1863, that officer requested that General
Ewell be promoted lieutenant-general and as-
signed to the command of the 2d corps as his suc-
cessor. He led the 2d corps at the capture of
Winchester, June 14. at Gettysburg, July 1^, 1863 ;
at the Wilderness, May 6, and at Spottsylvania,
May 13, 1864. He was then retired from active
duty on account of physical incapacity and was
assigned to command of the department of Rich-
mond, Va. On the retreat of General Lee, Ewell
was captured at Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865, with
his entire force. After the war he removed to
Springfield, Tenn., and died there, Jan. 2.'5, 1872.
EWER, Ferdinand Cartwright, clergyman,
was born in Nantucket, Mass. , May 33, 1836. He
was graduated at Harvard in 1848 and the next
year went to California, where he engaged in
journalism. In 18.52 he determined to take orders
in the Protestant Episcopal church, in which he
had been baptized while a boy m Nantucket, al-
though his parents were Unitarians, and he was
ordained a deacon in 1857 and a priest in 1858.
He was rector of Grace church, San Francisco,
1858-60, when failing health induced him to return
to the east, and he was assistant minister at St.
Ann's, New "Vork city, 1860-63, and rector of
Christ church, 1862-71. His introduction of rit-
ualistic forms in the church services disturbed
the conservative members of his congregation,
and his followers oi-ganized St. Ignatius church.
Here he had full liberty and his church became
the exponent of high -church methods in religious
worship and ritual. He received the degree of
A.M. from Harvard in 1868, and that of S.T.D.
from Columbia in 1876. He published: Tiro
Epentfnl Nir/hts, or the Fallih-iUtij of Spiritualism Ex-
posed (1856) ; Sermons on the Failvres of Protcss-
tanlism (1869) ; Catholicity in its lielation to
Protestantism andJiomatiism (ISIS) : The Operation of
tlie Holy Spirit (1880) ; Grammar of Tlieolor/y (1880).
He died in Montreal, Canada, Oct. 10, 1883.
EWERS, Ezra P., soldier, was born in New
York city, April 18, 1837. He enlisted in Co. E,
1st battalion, 19th U.S. mfantry, Jan. 18, 1863,
serving as private, sergeant and 1st sergeant till
Oct. 31. 1863, when he was commissioned 2d
lieutenant in the 19th U.S. infantry. He ac-
cepted, Dec. 4, 1863, and was promoted 1st lieu-
tenant, March 16, 1864. He was brevetted 1st
lieutenant, June 36, 1863, for " gallant services
in action at Hoover's Gap, Tenn.," and captain,
Nov. 25, 1863, for " gallant and meritorious con-
duct in the battle of Chattanooga, Tenn." After
the close of the civil war he was transferred,
Sept. 21, 1866, to the 37th U.S. infantry, having
been promoted to the rank of captain, Sept. 13,
1866. He was transferred to the 5th U.S. in-
fantry. May 19, 1869, and was promoted to the
rank of major, March 7, 1893, having been bre-
vetted major, Feb. 27, 1890, for gallant services
in the action against the Indians under Crazy
Horse on the Tongue river, Montana, Jan. 8,
1877. He was promoted to the rank of lieuten-
ant-colonel, April 30, 1897. At the outbreak of
the war with Spain he was sent with his regi-
ment to Cuba and was in command of the 9th
regiment, 3d brigade, 1st division, 5th army corps
and directed the brigade in the attack on Fort
San Juan July 1, 1898, as senior officer present
after reaching the top of the hill, and also in the
combined assault of July 1, 3 and 3. The brigade
was made up of the 34th, 9th and 13th U.S. in-
fantry regiments. The 13th was withdrawn to
support the " Rough Riders " early in the after-
noon of the fii'st day, leaving Colonel Ewers with
only two regiments. The brigade thus weak-
ened kept up the assault on the 2d and till nearlj'
noon on the 3d, and were under heavy lire from
both the artillery and infantry of the enemy.
Lieutenant Colonel Ewers was commissioned
brigadier-general of volunteers, July 12, 1898, and
received the surrender of the Spanish troops at
Caimanara. He was made military governor of
Guantanamo after the surrender of the ijlace to
him with 6000 Spanish troops, 2,000,000 rounds of
ammunition and 6000 rifles, July 25, 1898. In
December, 1898, he was assigned to the command
of the U.S. troops at San Luis, Cuba.
EWINQ, Charles, jurist, was born in Burling- ton county, N.J., July 8, 1780; son of James Ewing, a commissioner of loans for New Jei'sey and an active Revolutionary patriot. He wa.s graduated with honors from the College of New Jersey in 1798, was admitted to the bar in 1803 and practised at Trenton. He was made a coun- sellor in 1812 and was chief-justice of the state. 1824-33. He was a tru.stee of the College of New Jersey, 1830-33. He received the honorary de- gree of LL.D. from Jefferson college in 1830. He died in Trenton, N.J., Aug. 5, 1833.
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