Antietam he succeeded Sedgwick in command of a division, and he became major-general of volunteers in March 1863. In the campaign of Chancellorsville (see Wilderness) he commanded the XI. corps, which was routed by “Stonewall” Jackson, and in the first day’s battle at Gettysburg he was for some hours (succeeding Doubleday after Reynolds’s death) in command of the Union troops. The XI. corps was transferred to Tennessee after Rosecrans’s defeat at Chickamauga, and formed part of Hooker’s command in the great victory of Chattanooga. When Sherman prepared to invade Georgia in the spring of 1864 the XI. corps was merged with the XII. into the new XX., commanded by Hooker, and Howard was then placed, in command of the new IV. corps, which he led in all the actions of the Atlanta campaign, receiving another wound at Pickett’s Mills. On the death in action of General M’Pherson, Howard, in July 1864, was selected to command the Army of the Tennessee. In this position he took part in the “March to the Sea” and the Carolinas campaign. In March 1865 he was breveted major-general U.S.A. “for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Ezra Church and during the campaign against Atlanta,” and in 1893 received a Congressional medal of honour for bravery at Fair Oaks. After the peace he served as commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands from 1865 until 1874; in 1872 he was special commissioner to the hostile Apaches of New Mexico and Arizona; in 1874–1881 was in command of the Department of the Columbia and conducted the campaign against Chief Joseph in 1877 and that against the Bannocks and Piutes in 1878. In 1881–1882 he was superintendent of West Point; and in 1882–1886 he commanded the Department of the Platte, in 1886–1888 the Department of the Pacific, and in 1888–1894 the Department of the East. In 1886 he was promoted major-general and in 1894 he retired. He died at Burlington, Vermont, on the 26th of October 1909.
Howard was deeply interested, in the welfare of the negroes; and the establishment by the U.S. Government in 1867 of Howard University, at Washington, especially for their education, was largely due to him; it was named in his honour, and from 1869 to 1873 he presided over it. In 1895 he founded for the education of the “mountain whites” the Lincoln Memorial University at Cumberland Gap, Tenn. (see Cumberland Mountains), and became president of its board. He held honorary degrees of various universities, and was a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. He wrote, amongst other works, Donald’s Schooldays (1877); Chief Joseph (1881); a life of General Zachary Taylor (1892) in the “Great Commanders” series; Isabella of Castile (1894); Fighting for Humanity (1898); Henry in the War (1898); papers in the “Battles and Leaders” collection on the Atlanta campaign; My Life and Experience among our Hostile Indians (1907); and Autobiography of O. O. Howard (2 vols., New York, 1907).
HOWARD, SIR ROBERT (1626–1698), English dramatist,
sixth son of Thomas Howard, 1st earl of Berkshire, was born in
1626. He was knighted at the second battle of Newbury (1644)
for his signal courage on the Royalist side. Imprisoned in
Windsor Castle under the Commonwealth, his loyalty was
rewarded at the Restoration, and he eventually became auditor
of the exchequer. His best play is a comedy, The Committee, or the Faithful Irishman
(1663; printed 1665), which kept the stage,
long after its interest as a political satire was exhausted, for the
character of Teague, said to have been drawn from one of his own
servants. He was an early patron of Dryden, who married his
sister, Lady Elizabeth Howard, and in the Indian Queen, a
tragedy in heroic verse (1664; pr. 1665) Howard had assistance
from Dryden, although the fact was not made public until the
production of Dryden’s Indian Emperor. The magnificence of
the spectacle, and the novelty of the costume of feathers, presented
by Mrs. Aphra Behn, that was worn by Zempoalla, the
Indian queen, made a great sensation. The scenery and accessories
were unusually brilliant, the richest ever seen in England,
according to Evelyn. In 1665 Howard published Foure New
Plays, in the preface to which he opposed the view maintained
by Dryden in the dedicatory epistle to The Rival Ladies, that
rhyme was better suited to the heroic tragedy than blank verse.
Howard made an exception in favour of the rhyme of Lord
Orrery, but by his silence concerning Dryden implicated him in
the general censure. Dryden answered by placing Howard’s
sentiments in the mouth of Crites in his own Essay on Dramatic Poesy (1668). The controversy did not end here, but Dryden
completely worsted his adversary in the 1668 edition of The
Indian Emperor. Howard died on the 3rd of September 1698.
His brother, James Howard, wrote two comedies, All Mistaken, or the Mad Couple, a comedy (1667; pr. 1672), and The English Mounsieur (1666; pr. 1674), the success of which seems to have been partly due to the acting of Nell Gwynn.
HOWARD, LORD WILLIAM (1563–1640), known as “Belted,
or Bauld (bold) Will,” 3rd son of Thomas Howard, 4th duke of
Norfolk (executed in 1572), and of his second wife Margaret,
daughter of Lord Audley, was born at Audley End in Essex
on the 19th of December 1563. He married on the 28th of
October 1577 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, Lord Dacre, and
proceeded subsequently to the University of Cambridge. Being
suspected of treasonable intentions together with his elder
brother, Philip, earl of Arundel, he was imprisoned in 1583,
1585 and 1589. He joined the church of Rome in 1584, both
brothers being dispossessed by the queen of a portion of their
Dacre estates, which were, however, restored in 1601 for a payment
of £10,000. Howard then took up his residence with his
children and grandchildren at Naworth Castle in Cumberland,
restored the castle, improved the estate and established order
in that part of the country. In 1603, on the accession of James,
he had been restored in blood. In 1618 he was made one of the
commissioners for the border, and performed great services
in upholding the law and suppressing marauders. Lord William
was a learned and accomplished scholar, praised by Camden,
to whom he sent inscriptions and drawings from relics collected
by him from the Roman wall, as “a singular lover of valuable
antiquity and learned withal.” He collected a valuable library,
of which most of the printed works remain still at Naworth,
though the MSS. have been dispersed, a portion being now in
the Arundel MSS. in the Royal College of Arms; he corresponded
with Ussher and was intimate with Camden, Spelman, and
Cotton, whose eldest son married his daughter. He published,
in 1592 an edition of Florence of Worcester’s Chronicon ex
Chronicis, dedicated to Lord Burghley, and drew up a genealogy
of his family, now among the duke of Norfolk’s MSS. at Norfolk
House. He died in October 1640 at Greystock, to which place
he had been removed when failing in health to escape the Scots
who were threatening an advance on Naworth. He had a large
family of children, of whom Philip, his heir, was the grandfather
of Charles, 1st earl of Carlisle, and Francis was the ancestor of
the Howards of Corby.
HOWARD OF EFFINGHAM, WILLIAM HOWARD, 1st
Baron (c. 1510–1573), English lord high admiral, was the son
of the 2nd duke of Norfolk. He was popular with Henry VIII.,
and at Anne Boleyn’s coronation was deputy earl marshal;
and he was sent on missions to Scotland and France; but in
1541 he was charged with abetting his relative Queen Catherine
Howard, and was convicted of misprision of treason, but pardoned.
In 1552 he was made governor of Calais, and in 1553 lord high
admiral, being created Baron Howard of Effingham in 1554
for his defence of London in Sir Thomas Wyat’s rebellion against
Queen Mary. He befriended the princess Elizabeth, but his
popularity with the navy saved him from Mary’s resentment;
and when Elizabeth became queen he had great influence with
her and filled several important posts. His son, the second
baron, who is famous in English naval history, was created earl
of Nottingham (q.v.); and from a younger son the later earls
of Effingham were descended. William’s descendant, Francis
(d. 1695), inherited the barony of Howard of Effingham on the
death of his cousin, Charles, in 1681; and Francis’s son, Francis
(1683–1743), was created earl of Effingham in 1731. This earldom
became extinct on the death of Richard, the fourth holder, in
1816; but it was created again in 1837 in favour of Kenneth
Alexander (1767–1845), another of William Howard’s descendants,
