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Wii.i.iAAr C'ooswELL prepared for college in Phillips Academy. Andover.
Mass., and in Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. He was admitted,
in 1855. t° Dartmouth College, and like his older brother, he soon left college
for a ship's deck before the mast, and in 1856 and 1857 made a voyage around
the world, doubling Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope. After his return
he graduated, in i860, from Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the
Bar. Si)on after, the Southern Rebellion broke out. and Mr. Cogswell entered
the military service of the United States. .April 19, 1861. He raised the first
company of volunteers in the State of Massachusetts, and was commissioned
its Captain under Col. Gordon of the Massachusetts Second Regiment. Capt
Cogswell was commissioned, in 1S62, Lieutenant-Colonel; in 1865. Colonel;
and Dec. 15, 1864. Brevet Brigadier-General. He was connected with ^L^ssa-
chusetts Second Regiment Volunteers Infantry, and Third Brigade, Third Divis-
ion, Twentieth .Army Corps, under Sherman. He was under Banks in the
Shenandoah Valley. Pope in Virginia, McClellan at .Antietam. Hooker at
Chancellorsville. Sherman at Chattanooga, at .Atlanta, being Commander of
Post at Atlanta during its occupation ;
final surrender of Lee's army to Gen. Grant.
at Savannah, at Raleigh, and at the
Gen. Cogswell was wounded several times and once severely. At the battle
of Bentonsville, March 19, 1865. the honorable record is made : ''Gen. Cogs-
well and Brigade did splendid work." Vid. Atlantic Monthly. Sept., 18S2,
p. 394. Gen. Cogswell made a farewell address to his soldiers June 16, 1865.
in Saxannah, Ga. The war being over, he was relieved of duty July 25, 1S65.
In 1S70 Gen. Cogswell was Commander of the Massachusetis Department
of the Grand Army of the Republic, and also Senior Vice-Commander of
the Loyal Legion of Massachusetts He was Mayor of the City of Salem,
Mass., in 1867, 1868, 1869, 1873, and 1874, and held various other local offices.
Gen. Cogswell was for several years a prominent member of the ^Lissachusetts
Legislature. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1870, 187 1,
1881, 1SS2, and 1883. He served on the important Committees of the Judiciary,
Towns, Into.xicating Liquors, and Revision of the Statutes. He was
for some years Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He held the oftice of
Fish Commissioner. Gen Cogswell received the degree of .A. ^^, in 1S78, from
Dartmouth College, N. H.
DOANE COGSWELL.
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