The New International Encyclopædia/Palfrey, Francis Winthrop

PALFREY, pal'fri. Francis Winthrop (1831–89). An American historian, born in Boston, son of J. G. Palfrey. He graduated at Harvard in 1851 and at the "Law School two years afterwards. During the Civil War he rose to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general, and in 1872 he was appointed register in bankruptcy. He published A Memoir of William F. Bartlett (1879); Antietam and Fredericksburg, in the "Campaigns of the Civil War Series" (1882); and contributed to the first volume of Military Papers of the Historical Society of Massachusetts, and the North American Review.