troops.” In reply to these charges Gen. Warren answered that his first order to relieve Gen. Sheridan on 31 March was received from Gen. George G. Meade at 9.17 P. M., when he had already accomplished Gen. Sheridan's relief by sending troops to his assistance without orders, on his own responsibility, earlier than 5 P. M., also that he carried out his orders to Gen. Meade's entire satisfaction and joined Gen. Sheridan sooner than Gen. Meade had expected; that the only lack of skill was that of Gen. Sheridan, who delivered the attack of the 5th corps at a point three quarters of a mile distant from the point intended. A court of inquiry, convened in 1879 at Gen. Warren's request, found: 1. That Gen. Warren, after the receipt of Gen. Meade's first order, should have moved his main force sooner than he did. 2. It did not find that his handling of the corps was unskilful. 3. “That there was no unnecessary delay in this march of the 5th corps, and that Gen. Warren took the usual methods of a corps commander to prevent delay.” 4. That “by continuous exertions of himself and staff he substantially remedied matters ”; and the court thinks “that this was for him the essential point to be attended to, which also required his whole efforts to accomplish.” Gen. Warren after his removal was assigned by Gen. Grant to the charge of the defences of the Petersburg and Southside railroad, and then had command of the Department of the Mississippi. On 27 May, 1865, he resigned his commission in the volunteer army and returned to duty as major in the corps of engineers, to which grade he had been advanced on 25 June, 1864. He received the successive brevets in the U. S. army up to major-general, of which the last two were given him on 13 March, 1865. From May, 1865, till his death he was employed in various parts of the country in making surveys and in other works connected with his department. He was made lieutenant-colonel on 4 March, 1879. Gen. Warren was elected a member of the American association for the advancement of science in 1858, of the American philosophical society in 1867, of the American society of civil engineers in 1874, and to the National academy of sciences in 1876. A heroic statue by Paul Gerhardt (shown in the accompanying illustration) was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies on Little Round Top, Gettysburg, on 8 Aug., 1888. His works include “Explorations in the Dacota Country” (2 vols., Washington, 1855-'6); “Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the Years 1855-'7” (1858); various reports to the government on military and engineering subjects; and a pamphlet giving “An Account of the 5th Army Corps at the Battle of Five Forks” (New York, 1866). See sketch by Gen. Henry L. Abbot in “ Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences” (vol. ii., Washington, 1886).
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WARREN, Ira, journalist, b. in Hawkesbury, Canada, in 1806 ; d. in 1864. He was educated at Brown and Kenyon, and studied medicine. He
contributed to the Montreal "Episcopal Observer" and the "Christian Witness," and subsequently edited in Boston, Mass., the "Christian Alliance"
and the " Family Visitor." Under the signature of "Laicus" he reviewed the Rev. William Croswell's answer to Bishop Manton Eastburn in 1845. Dr. Warren contributed to the same controversy a volume entitled "Causes and Cure of Puseyism " (Boston, 1847), and published "The Household Physician" (1859), of which, before his death, more than 30,000 copies were sold.
WARREN, Israel Perkins, author, b. in New Bethany, Conn., 8 April, 1814. He is a descendant of Richard Warren, one of the " Mayflower " Pilgrims. He was graduated at Yale in 1838, was principal of the Cromwell, Conn., academy in 1838-'9, afterward studied at Yale theological seminary, and became pastor of the Congregational church at Granby, Conn., in 1842. He was stationed at Mount Carmel, Conn., in 1846, at Plymouth, Conn., in 1851, was secretary and editor of the American tract society at Boston in 1859, an editor and book-publisher there in 1870, and became editor and proprietor of "The Christian Mirror" in Portland, Me., in 1875, which post he has held ever since. In addition to numerous sermons, tracts, and pamphlets, he has published in book-form "The Seaman's Cause " (New York, 1858) ; " The Sisters, a Memorial of Elizabeth H., Abbie A., and Sarah F. Dickerman " (Boston, 1859); "Sadduceeism, a Refutation of the Doctrine of the Annihilation of the Wicked" (1860); "The Cross-Bearer, a Vision" (1861); "The Picture Lesson-Book," designed for the use of the refugee slaves in camp (1861); "A Chapter from the Book of Nature" (1863); "The Christian Armor" (1864); "The Cup-Bearer" (1865); "The Sabbath at Home : an Illustrated Religious Magazine for the Family" (3 vols., 1867-9) ; " The New Testament, with Notes, etc." (vol. i., 1868); "Jerusalem, Ancient and Modern" (1873); "The Three Judges, Story of the Men who beheaded their King," with an introduction by Rev. Leonard Bacon (New York, 1873); "Chauncey Judd, or the Stolen Boy of the Revolution" (Boston. 1874); "The Parousia, a Critical Study of the Scripture Doctrine of Christ's
