STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)

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STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887) , American soldier, was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, on the 3oth of September 1824. He graduated at West Point in 1845, and in the Mexican War earned two brevets for distinguished conduct. In 1856 he resigned from the army; and in 1857-1861 he led a scientific expedition in the state of Sonora,

Mexico

. He re-entered the service in 1861, and became a brigadier-general, United States Volunteers, but the defeat of a detachment at Ball's Bluff (Oct. 21, 1861) was attributed to him, and he was imprisonedfor six months, being then released without any charge being brought against him. After serving for short periods in the latter stages of the war, he resigned his commission (Sept. 1864). He was engineer and superintendent of a mining company in Virginia from 1865 to 187o, when he entered the military service of the khedive of Egypt, whose

chief

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of staff and general aide-de-camp he became, with the rank of lieutenant-general and the title of " Ferik Pasha." He returned to the United States in 1883, and resumed his engineering

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. He died in New

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City on the 24th of January 1887.

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