charge of the expedition of Bull's bay. He was commissioned captain, 25 July, ISliG. commodore, 1 July, 1870, and rear-admiral, 12 Feb., 1874. He was retired on 4 June, 1874, on his own application.
STANNARD, George Jerrison, soldier, b. in
Georgia. V'l.. 20 Oct., 1820: d. in Washington,
D. C.. 31 May, 1886. He received an academic
r.lii. ation, worked on his father's farm, teaching
in winter, and was a clerk in a foundry from 1845
till 1860, when he became joint proprietor of the
business. He was a colonel of militia when the
civil war began, and was the first man in Vermont
to offer his services after the president's call for
volunteers. He was commissioned as lieutenant-
colonel of the 2d Vermont regiment, which was
mustered into the service in May, 1861. He was
at the first battle of Bull Run, and while stationed
near the Chain bridge in the following autumn fre-
quently led scouting parties into the enemy's terri-
tory. In May, 1862, he was commissioned colonel
of the 9th Vermont infantry, which was stationed
at Harper's Ferry when Col. Dixon S. Miles sur-
rendered that post, and on being paroled went into
camp at Chicago. On 11 March, 1863, he was com-
missioned as brigadier-general. His brigade of
Vermont troops came up at the close of the first
day's battle at Gettysburg. On the second day he
held the left slope of Cemetery hill till he was
ordered farther to the left in the afternoon to
oppose Gen. James Longstreet's assault after the
rout of the 3d corps. His brigade closed the gap
speedily, saving two batteries, retaking another,
and capturing two Confederate guns. On the third
day it opposed a solid front to Gen. George E.
Pickett's division, and, when the Confederate
column turned slightly to the left, threw the assail-
ants into confusion by a flanking fire. Gen. Stan-
nard was wounded in the action, and could not
return to the field till May, 1864. At Cold Harbor
he was struck by a rifle-ball, but brought off the
remnant of his command. He led the advance
on Petersburg, and was assigned to the com-
mand of a division, but was again wounded and,
moreover, disabled by sickness. When he re-
joined the army after a few weeks of absence he
led the advance upon the defences of Richmond
north of James river, and captured Fort Harri-
son, for which he was brevetted major-general on
28 Oct., 1864, but when the enemy attempted to
storm the works on the day after their capture a
bullet shattered his arm, necessitating amputation.
He returned to his home, and in December, 1864,
after the raid on St. Albans, was placed in charge of
the defence of the northern frontier of Vermont.
He resigned on 27 June, 1866, and was appointed
collector of customs for the district of Vermont,
which office he held till 1872.
STANSBURY, Arthur J., author, b. in New
York city in 1781 ; d. about 18^5. He was graduated
at Columbia in 1799, and licensed to preach in
1810. Besides contributing to periodicals, he pub-
lished several sermons and addresses, and was the
author of " Elementary Catechism on the Consti-
tution of the United States" (Boston, 1828) and a
" Report of the Trial of Judge James H. Peck, or
an Impeachment by the House of Representatives
of the United States " (1833). His reports of the
debates in congress for twenty years are embodied
in Joseph Gales's and William W. Seaton's " Regis-
ter of Debates" (14 vols., Washington, 1825-37).
He also wrote and illustrated books for children.
STANSBURY, Howard, explorer, b. in New
York city, 8 Feb., 1806 ; d. in Madison, Wis., 17
April, 1863. Early in life he became a civil engi-
neer, and in October, 1828, he was placed in charge
of the survey of proposed canals to unite Lake Erie
and Lake Michigan with the Wabash river, and was
also engaged in other surveys of western rivers.
In 1835 he had charge of numerous public works
in Indiana, in 1836 he made a survey of James
river with a view toward improving the harbor of
Richmond, and in is:_!7 lie surveyed Illinois and
Kaskaskia rivers, being afterward engaged upon
the survey for a railroad from Milwaukee to Du-
buque, and charged with the construction of a road
from Milwaukee to Mississippi river. He became
1st lieutenant of U. S. topographical engineers on
7 July. 1838, captain in 1840, and in 1841 was
engaged in a survey of the lakes. In 1842 '5 he
was in charge of the survey of the harbor of Ports-
mouth, N. H., a work which for minute accuracy
of detail is unsurpassed in this country. In 1847
he was charged with the construction of an iron
light-house on Carysfort reef, Florida, which is the
largest light-house on our coast. From 1849 till
1851 he was engaged in the Great Salt Lake expe-
dition, his report of which gave him a wide reputa-
tion. In 1852-'3 he was engaged upon the lake
harbors, and in 1856 he was assigned to the charge
of the military roads in Minnesota. He was ap-
pointed major on 28 Sept., 1861, and at the time of
his death he was mustering and disbursing officer
at Madison. Maj. Stansbury published " An Expe-
dition to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of
Utah" (Philadelphia, 1852; 2d ed., 1855).
STANSBURY, Joseph, merchant, b. in Eng-
land in 1750 ; d. in New York city in 1809. He
emigrated to Philadelphia, where he became an
importing merchant, and was generally respected
for his integrity. In 1776 it was reported that he
" sung 'God save the King' in his house, and that
a number of persons present bore him the chorus,"
and before the close of that year he was imprisoned
in Burlington, N. J. In 1777 he was appointed by
Sir William Howe a commissioner for selecting and
governing the city watch of Philadelphia, and in
1778 he was a manager of that officer's lottery for
the relief of the poor. In 1780 the Whigs were
again in possession of Philadelphia, and again im-
prisoned him, and the agent of the loyalists' es-
tates was directed by the council of Philadelphia
to make an inventory of his possessions. His re-
quest for permission to live within the British lines
was granted on the condition that he should pro-
cure the release and safe return of two prisoners
then on Long Island, and that he would do noth-
ing injurious to the Whig cause. He was liberated,
his property was restored, and with his family he
resided in New York during the remainder of the
war, and afterward removed to Nova Scotia, but
returned to Philadelphia in 1785. intending to re-
sume his former occupation, but, threatened with
violence, he removed to New York, where he be-
came secretary of an insurance company. He wrote
in support of the crown, and his verses were edit-
ed by Winthrop Sargent under the title of Stans-
bury's and Odell's " Loyal Verses " (Albany, 1860).
His son, Philip, traveller, b. in New York city
about 1802 ; d. about 1870. was the author of " A
Pedestrian Tour of Two Thousand Three Hundred
Miles in North America, to the Lakes, the Cana-
das. and the New England States, performed in
the Autumn of 1821 " (New York, 1822). This
work, which is exceedingly rare, is characterized '
by great keenness of observation, and contains one
of the best descriptions extant of the important
battle-fields included in the conquest of Canada
in 1759-'63, its invasion during the war of 1812,
the wars with the Indians in the New England
states, the Revolutionary contest in Massachusetts,
