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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Isaac Ingalls Stevens Biography STEVENS,
Isaac Ingalls (1818-62). An American soldier and administrator, born at
North Andover, Mass., and graduated at West Point in 1839. He joined General
Scott's army in Mexico as adjutant of engineers in 1847, and was in its
important engagements. In 1849 he became assistant in charge of the United
States Coast Survey office at Washington, but resigned from the army in 1852 to
accept the governorship of Washington Territory. In 1855 the Washington Indians
revolted. Stevens at once suppressed the insurrection, and arrested Chief
Justice Lander, who had issued writs of habeas corpus
for Indian prisoners. On the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned
colonel of the Seventy-ninth New York Volunteers, and later was promoted to the
rank of brigadier general. He took part at Stone River and Secessionville. On
July 4, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of major general, and during August
took part in the campaign in northern Virginia, fighting at the second battle of
Bull Run and at Chantilly. At the latter, while leading a charge, he was killed,
Sept. 1, 1862. He published Campaigns of
the Rio Grande and Mexico (1851). |