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He Succumbs To Hemorrhage Of Stomach After Week's Illness. WAS CONFEDERATE BRIGADIER Graduated From West Point, Like Jackson And Lee—Escorted Lin coln On First Inauguration. A special dispatch to Tae Sun last night from Annapolis says: “Gen. George H. Steuart, a brigadier general in the Army of the Confederate States, died this morning at his home, on South river, in Anne Arundel county, about 10 miles from Annapolis. He was 76 years old and his demise was caused by a hem ort’ of the stomach. He had been un well for several months, but was compara tively active within a week of the end. “The exact time of the funeral has not been settled, but it is expected that It will be on Tuesday from St. Anne’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Annapolis, of which the deceased was a member. The interment will be in Greenmount Cemetery, Saltm ore.” General Steuart entered the United States Military Academy in 1844, and, after grad uating, was promoted to brevet second lieu tenant of the Second Dragoons. He was placed on frontier duty and spent seven years in Texas. During this time he was appointed second lieutenant of the Second Dragoons, in 1849, and first lieutenant of the First Cavalry, in 1855. While in the Lone Star State he was stationed at 12 dif ferent forts or barracks, and was one of the escorting party to Lieutenant-Colonel Freeman on his inspection tour throughout the State. In the latter part of 1855 Lieu tenant Steuart was again detailed on fron tier duty, this time at Fort Leavenworth, and during a Sioux expedition of the same year he was made captain of the First Cav alry. In 1856 he took part in a Cheyenne expedition, and was in a skirmish near Fort Kearney, Neb., August 26- The years 1857 and 1858 were spent at Fort Leavenworth, after which Captain Steuart joined a Utah expedition. In 1858 he was stationed In Kansas, and during the following year was one of a scouting party along the Arkansas river. The years 1859 and 1860 found him in expeditions against the Kiowa and Coman che Indians. At the Inauguration of Pres ident Lincoln Captain Steuart commanded a troop of cavalry that acted as an escort to the President. On April 22, 1861, he re signed from the army and went to Rich mond to join the Confederacy. At Harper's Ferry, in May, 1861, Gen. Joseph E. John ston placed him in command of eight in complete companies, of which Capt. Brad ley T. Johnson was forming the nucleus of a regiment of Marylanders. On June 16 of the same year the First Maryland Regi ment was organized, with Arnold Elzey as colonel, George H. Steuart as lieutenant colonel and Bradley T. Johnson as major. After the first battle of Manassas Colonel Elzey was made a brigadier-general, Lieu tenant-Colonel Steuart a colonel and Major Johnson lieutenant-colonel. On March 17, 1862, Colonel Steuart was promoted to brig adier-general and assigned to the command of a cavalry brigade with Jackson in the Valley of Virginia. He led his brigade dur ing the Valley campaign, and on June 1 he was transferred to the command of the Second Brigade of Jackson's Division of Infantry, composed of five Virginia regi ments. At the battle of Cross Keys, June 8, 1862, he was badly wounded in the shoul der by a grape shot, and during the rest of the year lay in a hospital on sick fur lough. In January, 1863, he was assigned to the command of a brigade of infantry in Ew ell's Corps, consisting of two North Caro lina regiments, three Virginia regiments and the Second Maryland Infantry, of which Col. James R. Herbert was the chief officer. He commanded this brigade in the march through Maryland and Pennsylvania to Gettysburg, and carried by assault the difficult height of Culp's Hill on July 2. It was there that the Second Maryland lost its field officers. Herbert and Goldsborough were wounded and its senior captain, Wm. H. Murray, was killed. Out of 350 men who went into action 195 were killed or wounded. After Gettysburg, General Steuart re mained in command of his brigade with the Army of Northern Virginia, and led it in the battles with the Army of the Potomac in the Wilderness and along the line of the Rappahannock. On May 12, 1864, his bri gade, consisting of a part of Johnson's Di vision, was holding the lines, when they were assaulted and carried by Hancock's Corps. In this struggle Major-Gen. Ed ward Johnson and Brigadier-General Steu art were captured and sent to a military prison on Lake Erie, where he remained until exchanged in 1865. Upon returning to the Confederacy and reporting for duty he was placed in com mand of a brigade in Pickett's Division, and remained entrenched below Petersburg until General Lee's evacuation, in April, 1865. On this retreat General Steuart held his men together and none appeared in bet ter condition at the surrender of Appomat tox. The General was a strict disciplina rian. General Steuart married, In 1858, Maria Kinzie, daughter of Col. Robert A. Kinzie, United States Army, and granddaughter of John Kinzie, founder of the city of Chi cago. She was the niece and adopted daugh ter of Gen. David Hunter, United States Army. General Steuart leaves two daugh ters, Mrs. Edmund R. Davis, of Narragan sett Pier, R. L. and Mrs. Liebig, of At lantic City, daughter-in-law of the late Dr. Liebig, the well-known chemist; his family is closely identified with the his tory of Maryland. He was the son of Gen George Hume Steuart and Ann Jane Ed mondson, daughter of Thomas Edmondson. General Steuart, Sr., was a graduate of Princeton and a lawyer. In the War of 1812 he raised and commanded a company that became a part of Colonel Sterrett's Fifth Regiment. He was severely wounded while resisting the advance of the British on North Point. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was a major-general In command of the Maryland Militia. He went South, but took no active part In the struggle. The grandfather of the senior General Stewart was Dr. George Steuart, the first of the family to settle in America. Dr. Steuart came to Annapolis in 1721 from Perthshire, Scotland. He was at various times Judge of the Land Office, of the Court of Admiralty and member of the Legislature. Dr. Steuart was a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and was descended from Kenneth II, who was crowned King of Scotland in 854. Dr. Steu art was the first of the family to change the spelling of the name from Stewart to Steuart. ’
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