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cock's) corps. On 2 May, owing to a resolution of the senate that caused him to rank below some of the brigade commanders of his division, he was or- dered to report to Gen. Butler, and was placed by him in the outer line of defence of the peninsula. He afterward commanded divisions in the 1st corps, had charge of the defences of James river, and on 1 June, 1865, was brevetted major-gen- eral for gallantry and meritorious services dur- ing the war. Before he was mustered out, on 24 Aug., 1865, he was nominated as secretary of state of New York by the republican party. He took a prominent part in the jjolitics of New York, being elected secretary of state in 1879, and re-elected in 1881 and 1883. In 1885 he was the republican candidate for lieutenant-governor.


CARR, Sir Robert, British commissioner in New England, b. in Northumberland, England ; d. in Bristol, England, 1 June, 1667. He was ap- pointed commissioner by Charles II. in 1664, in conjunction with Nicolls, Cartwright, and Maver- ick. The New Englanders took measures for re- sisting any infraction of their liberties by the com- missioners, who were nominated by the duke of York and given extensive powers for regulating the affairs of New England. The commissioners arrived with a fleet, which was equipped for re- ducing the Dutch settlements on the Hudson. On 27 Aug., 1664, Nicolls and Carr captured New Am- sterdam from the Dutch and called it New York in honor of the duke, afterward James II. The garrison at Fort Orange capitulated on 24 Sept., and the place was renamed Albany. Carr forced the Swedes and Dutch on the Delaware into a capitulation, 1 Oct., 1664, went to Boston in Feb- ruary, 1665, and with his coadjutoi's attempted to supersede the constituted authorities of the colony ; but the colonists refused to recognize their com- mission. They then went to the north and en- deavored to restore proprietary government. The towns of New Hampshire obeyed the instructions of the governor of Massachusetts, and refused to hold intercourse with the commissioners. In Maine the people welcomed the commissioners, preferring direct dependence on the king to incorporation in Massachusetts. A court was held at Casco in July, 1666, and a new government under the commis- sioners was constituted and maintained until 1668. In the mean time Carr returned to England and died the dav after his arrival.


CARRALL, Robert William Weir, Canadian physician, b. in Carrull's Grove, near VVoodstock, Ontario, in 1839. He was educated at Trinity col- lege, Toronto, and was graduated in medicine at McGill college, Montreal, in 1859. He was elected and represented Cariboo in the legislative council of British Columbia from 1868 until the colony was admitted into the Canadian Dominion in 1871. He was one of the three delegates who went to Ot- tawa in that year to arrange the terms of union. He was called to^the senate on 3 Dec, 1871.


CARRATALA, José (car-rah-ta-lah'), Spanish soldier, b. in Alicante, Spain, 14 Dec, 1781; d. in Madrid, Spain, in 1854. He had just nn- ished his studies when Napoleon's army invaded Spain in 1808, and at once enrolled himself in a Spanish regiment. He was wounded at the battle of Tudela and the second siege of Saragossa, won several promotions, and at the close of the war was lieutenant-colonel. In September, 1815, he went to Peru as colonel of his regiment, and took part in battles at Jujuy and Salta. occupied Are- quipain 1820, burned several towns in the province of Jauja, was promoted to the rank of brigadier- general, and joined Canterac, with whom he won the battle of Macacona, and continued the cam- paign to the end. He wrote the capitulation after the battle of Ayacucho, when the royalists were finally defeated in South America. On his return to Spain, he again took part in military operations, in 1827 was appointed lieutenant-general, and then captain-general of several provinces, and became minister of war and senator in 1841.


CARRELL, Columba, mother superior, b. in Dublin, Ireland, in 1810; d. in Louisville, Ky., in 1878. She went to Louisville at an early age, and entered a convent in 1826. She was directress of studies np to 1862, when she was elected mother superior. She founded the hospital of SS. Mary and Elizabeth in Louisville.


CARRELL, George Aloysins, R. C. bishop, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1803 ; d. in Covington, Ky., in 1868. At ten years of age he began his studies at Mount St. Mary's college, Emmettsburg, where he remained three years. He studied in Georgetown college for four years and then entered the novitiate of the Jesuits at White Marsh, Md. He returned to St. Mary's to complete his theological studies, and was ordained in 1829. During the next six years he performed missionary duty in Pennsyl- vania, New Jersey, and Delaware, and founded an academy for young ladies, which had more than 300 pupils, as well as a boys' school. After six years of missionary experience he entered the So- ciety of Jesus, was appointed professor in St. Louis university, and was rector of this institution from 1845 till 1848. Between 1851 and 1853 he was president of Purcell mansion college, Cincinnati. On the erection of the eastern portion of Kentucky into the see of Covington in 1858, Dr. Carrell was proposed for the office of bishop by the first na- tional council of Baltimore, and, the recommenda- tion having been sanctioned by the pope, he was consecrated the same year. One of his first under- takings was the erection of the cathedral of St. Mary's, and this he accomplished in less than two years after his installation. His diocese contained only ten churches and seven priests for 7,000 Catli- olics, scattered over some hundred miles of terri- tory, at the beginning of his episcopate, while there was not an ecclesiastical institution in the diocese. During the fifteen years that followed his conse- cration there was marked progress, the number of churches increasing to thirty-eight and the priests to thirty-three. He established a hospital for the care of the sick and an asylum for orphan children, and also founded a priory of the order of St. Bene- dict, a convent of Benedictine nuns, and one of the nuns of the visitation. Academies and parochial schools were erected in every part of his diocese, and he did much to promote education both in Kentuckv and Ohio.


CARRERA, Jose Miguel (car-ray'-rah), Chilian soldier, b. in Santiago de Chili, 19 July, 1782; d. in Mendoza, Argentine Republic 1 Sept., 1815. He studied in Madrid, entered the Spanish cavalry, served with distinction during the war of independence against the French, was promoted to the rank of major and given the command of a squadron in 1810, and escaped from Cadiz when he heard of the revolutionary movement in Chili. Soon after his arrival he was appointed colonel in the revolutionary army by dictator Rosas, fought against the Spaniards, won great reputation among the military chiefs, which enabled him to depose Rosas (16 Nov., 1811) and to establish a new government under his own authority. He then quelled an insurrection, and dissolved the congress, reorganizing the government on military principles. On 19 July, 1812, he was proclaimed