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After an imprisonment of nearly eight months, he was released in 1798, and sent across the frontier. He then returned to America, and was soon after- ward commissioned a captain in the U. S. army. In 1811 he married a daughter of Gen. Thomas Pinckney. At the beginning of the war of 1812 he was made a lieutenant-colonel in the 2d artillery, and placed on the staff of Gen. Pinckney. On 6 April, 1813, he became adjutant-general with the rank of colonel. Subsequently he served in the state legislature. — John's grandson, Thomas Bee, b. in Charleston, S. C, 12 July, 1820 ; d. in New Orleans, La., 10 May, 1862, entered the U. S. navy as a midshipman, July, 1835. During the Mexican war he was at the siege of Vera Cruz, serving with the land forces. On the secession of South Caro- lina he resigned his commission and returned home. During the bombardment of Fort Sumter he com- manded a battery on Morris island. As lieuten- ant-commander in the Confederate navy, he fought his vessel, the " McCrae," a converted merchant steamer, when the National fleet under Parragut forced its way up to New Orleans, where he fell mortally wounded, 24 April, 1862. He married Miss Mariamne Meade, a sister of Gen. George G. Meade of the U. S. army. — Francis Kinloch's son, Benja- min, soldier, b. in Charleston, S. C, in 1806 ; d. there, 7 Dec, 1877, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1825, and brevetted 2d lieu- tenant in the 3d artillery. He served on topo- graphical duty till 1828, when he went to Europe on leave of absence. He became a captain of ord- nance, 30 May, 1832, and was in command of Fort Monroe arsenal, Va., from 1832 till 1839. From 1839 till 1846 he was a member of the ordnance board, and in 1840-'l of a military commission on professional duty in Europe, and he was again in command of Fort Monroe arsenal from 1841 till 1846. In 1847-'8 he was chief of ordnance in the army under Gen. Winfield Scott in the war with Mexico, having charge of the siege-train at Vera Cruz, and was brevetted major for gallantry, 29 March, 1847. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel at Molino del Rey, 8 Sept., 1847, and colonel at Chapultepec, 13 Sept., 1847. In 1852 South Carolina presented him with a sword of honor for meritorious conduct and gallantry in the war with Mexico. From 1848 till 1851 he again held command of the Fort Monroe arsenal, and from 1849 till 1851 was a member of a board to devise "a complete system of instruction for siege, garrison, sea-coast, and mountain artillery," adopted, 20 May, 1851, for the U. S. service. In 1851-4 he com- manded the armory at Harper's Ferry, Va. He became major on 15 Feb., 1855, and was stationed at Pikesville arsenal, Md., in 1854-'60, and the Charleston arsenal, S. C, in 1860. On 22 April, 1861, he resigned, and was made a brigadier-gen- eral in the Confederate army. He commanded, with the rank of major-general, at Norfolk, before its occupation by the National forces, 10 May, 1862, and subsequently led a division in the seven days' fight in front of Richmond. He was relieved from command of his division in consequence of his failure to cut off McClellan's retreat after the bat- tle of Malvern Hill, 1 July, 1862. He was assigned to duty in the ordnance department in the trans- Mississippi, where he continued until the end of the war. He then became a farmer in Virginia.

HUGHES, Aaron K., naval officer, b. in Elmira, N. Y., 31 March, 1822. He entered the navy as a midshipman, 20 Oct., 1838 ; became a lieutenant, 9 Sept., 1853 ; commander, 16 Nov., 1862 ; captain, 10 Feb., 1869; commodore in 1875, and rear-admiral in 1882. He made a voyage to Puget sound in the sloop- of-war "Decatur" in 1855, and had a fight on shore at the town of Seattle with 500 Indians, whom he defeated, 25 Jan., 1855. He commanded the " Wa- ter-Witch," of the Gulf squadron, in 1861-'2 ; the steamer " Mohawk," of the South Atlantic squad* ron, 1862-'3, and the steamer " Cimmaron " of that squadron in 1863-4, and participated in the bom- bardment of the other works in Charleston har- bor. In 1884 he was retired from the service.

HUGHES, Ball, sculptor, b. in London, England, 19 Jan., 1806; d. in Boston, Mass., 5 March, 1868. He early showed a fondness for modelling, and procured his first supply of wax by collecting candle-ends, with which he made a bass-relief copy of a picture, representing the judgment of Solomon, that was afterward cast in silver. His father placed him in the studio of Edward H. Baily, with whom he remained for seven years. During this time he gained important prizes, including a large silver medal that was given by the Royal academy for the best copy in bass-relief of the Apollo Belvedere, a silver medal from the Society of arts for a copy of the Barberine Faun, a large silver medal for the best original model from life, and a gold medal for an original composition called “Pandora brought to Earth by Mercury.” He also executed several ideal statues, and busts of George IV. and the Dukes of Cambridge, Sussex, and York, besides a statuette of George IV., that was afterward cast in bronze. He came to the United States in 1829, and settled first in New York, where he made in marble a statue of Alexander Hamilton for the Merchants' exchange, but it was destroyed by fire in 1835. The life-size monumental high-relief of Bishop Hobart of New York, now in the vestry of Trinity church, New York city, was made by him about this time. Later he resided in Dorchester, Mass., and there made “Little Nell” and the group “Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman,” which are preserved in plaster at the Boston athenæum, but never have been carved in marble. Among his later works are a model of an equestrian statue of Washington, intended for the city of Philadelphia, a “Crucifixion,” a statue in bronze of Nathaniel Bowditch that is now in Mount Auburn cemetery, a statuette of Gen. Joseph Warren, a bust of Washington Irving, and a “Mary Magdalen.” Mr. Hughes also lectured upon art, and attracted attention by his sketches that he made on wood with a hot iron.

HUGHES, Christopher, diplomatist, b. in Baltimore, Md.. in 1786 ; d. there, 18 Sept., 1849. He married, in 1811, Laura Sophia, a daughter of Gen. Samuel Smith. He was commissioned secretary to the U. S. legation at London on 3 Feb., 1814, and transferred to Stock- holm on 26 Sept., 1816. When Jona- than Russell retired in 1818 he left Mr. Hughes in charge, and for the next thir- ty-five years the Unit- ed States had no min- ister at that capital.

Hughes was commissioned charge d'affaires on 20 Jan.,

1819. On 15 July, 1825, he retired, having been appointed charge d'affaires to the Netherlands, with special instructions. He returned to Sweden as charge d'affaires on 3 March, 1830, and remained