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ROPES, JOHN CODMAN (18361899)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 718 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROPES, JOHN CODMAN (18361899) , American military historian and lawyer, was born at St
Petersburg
  on the 28th of April 1836, the son of a leading merchant of Boston who was engaged in business in Russia. At the age of fourteen, his family having meantime returned to Massachusetts, he developed an affection of the spine which eventually became a permanent deformity. His courage and energy, however, did not allow him to yield to his affliction. He entered Harvard in 1853, and graduated in 1857. His interests as a
young
  man were chiefly religious, legal and historical, and these remained with him throughout life, his career as a lawyer being conspicuous and successful. But it was the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 which fixed his attention principally on military history. He ceaselessly assisted with business and personal help and friend-ship the officers and men of the loth Massachusetts regiment, in which his brother, Henry Ropes, served up to his death at Gettysburg, and after the war he devoted himself to the collection and elucidation of all obtainable evidence as to its incidents and events. In this
work
  his clear and unprejudiced legal mind enabled him to sift the truth from the innumerable public and private controversies, and the ill-informed allotment of praise and blame by the popular historians and biographers. The
focus
  of his
work
  was the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, which he founded in 1876. The work of this society was the collection and discussion of evidence relating to the great conflict. Although practically every member of this society except himself had fought through the war, and nany, such as Hancock and W. F.
Smith
 , were general officersof great distinction, it was from first to last maintained and guided by Ropes, who presented to it his military library and his collection of prints and medals. He died at Boston on the 28th of October 1899. His principal work is an unfinished Story of the Civil War, to which he devoted most of his later years; this covers the years 186162. The Army under Pope is a detailed narration of the Virginia campaign of AugustSeptember 1862, which played a great part in reversing contemporary judgment on the events of those operations, notably as regards the unjustly-condemned General Fitz John
Porter
 . Outside America, Ropes is known chiefly as the author of The Campaign of Waterloo, which is one of the standard works on the subject.
The greater part of his studies of the Civil War appears in the Military Historical Society's publications. Papers on the Waterloo campaign appeared in the Atlantic Monthly of June 1881, and in Scribner's Magazine of March and April 1888. Amongst his miscellaneous works is a
paper
  on " The Likenesses of Julius Caesar " in Scribner's Magazine (February 1887).
See Memoir of John Codman Ropes (Boston, privately printed. 1901).
ROPE-WALKING, the art of walking, dancing and performing tricks of equilibrium on a rope or wire stretched between two supports. It has been popular with most Asiatic and European peoples from the beginning of history. Before the middle of the 19th century a rope was invariably used, and was stretched as tightly as possible, on which account the art was called Tight-rope Walking. About the year 1875 the slack wire, stretched loosely from support to support, was introduced, and is now more commonly used. the performer is often aided in keeping his balance by a Chinese umbrella or a long pole.


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