The New World Encyclopedia a Library of Reference volume 1
The New World Encyclopedia a Library of Reference volume 1
George Jotham Hagar
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, where he was elected to the Legislature in 1857. In 1861 he entered the Union army as Major of the 15th Iowa Volunteers and was engaged at Shiloh, Corinth, and Vicks- burg ; but became most prominent in Sherman's Atlanta campaign. He was promoted to Brigadier-General, July 30, 1864, and Major-General, March 13, 1865. He was collector of internal revenue in Iowa from 1865 to Oct. 13, 1869, when he was ap- Bell Bell pointed Secretary of War, which of- fice he occupied till March 7, 187G. He res...igned in consequence of accusa- tions of official corruption. Subse- quently he was tried and acquitted. He died in Washington, D. C. F Oct. 12, 1890. Bell, a holloa, sounding instru- ment of metal. The metal from which bells are usually made ( by founding ), is an alloy, called bell-metal, com- monly composed of 80 parts of copper and 20 of tin. Bells, as the term is used on ship- board, are the strokes of the ship's bell that proclaim the hours. Eight bells, the highest number, are rung at noon and every fourth hour after- wards, i.
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